Transformers: The Last Knight - Review

Transformers: The Last Knight debuted on June 21, 2017 as the fifth Transformers movie. This movie made twice its budget at $430 million dollars with the reviews being mostly negative. For example, it has received a 5/3/10 on IMDb, 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and, 28% on Metacritic.

Reviews say that this movie is unnecessary and remains hollow. It is also called overlong (3 hours and 9 minutes long), overstuffed, and soulless. The plot is confusing and uninteresting. One described it as delivering explosions and not much else. If you watch a lot of Michael Bay films this movie wouldn’t surprise you such as it has the Michael Bay trademark of lots of unnecessary explosions.

The plot is jam packed and is confusing such as it soared around the world from a different planet to Chicago to South Dakota to London, etc. The writers try to put too much detail into a short amount of time. The film centers around a space sorceress called Quintessa trying to reclaim her staff that King Arthur had. In the process of trying the get her staff back she also tries to destroy the planet and also turns Optimus Prime into a bad guy. When the characters find the staff in a sunken Transformers ship robot knights attack an evil Optimus, then for some reason a talisman that the protagonist Cade Yeager had on turns into Excalibur proclaiming him as the Last Knight. Megatron brings the staff to Quintessa who begins to drain Earth’s life force through the Stonehenge to repair the Transformer planet. The movie ends with the Autobots winning like they always do and the two planets being stuck together. These are the reasons most of the critics say the movie is over-stuffed and confusing.

All in all I wouldn’t recommend this movie unless you enjoy mindless explosions and confusing plots.