Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Del C — 09 Jul 2017

This movie is laughably awful. The format would be an action-comedy if not for how it takes itself way to seriously to land that tone. Every moment, no matter how if it's an action sequence or a museum tour guide herding uninterested Britons through their own history, is character grandstanding, one-liners, heroic monologues, and epic music. Sequences time-skip anything not critical to the scene or plot, like a Wikipedia summary replacing the storyboard. Bloopers and plot oversights are rampant, like one instance of a bot getting a new Decepticon arm, only to have his old arm clearly back again for a later sequence, and then have it return to the new arm one scene later. Don't even get me started on the inconsistencies with how long the characters think it's been since Bumblebee had his voice (remember when he spoke at the end of the first movie?).

One star because the director finally toned down the shaky cam, and Megatron got his proper voice actor. Both counts only took four movies. Michael Bay, either you're literally trying to produce garbage at this point, or you need a new day job.