Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to
saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden
history of Transformers on Earth.
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Director:
Michael BayStars:
Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 June 2017 (Philippines) See more »Also Known As:
Transformers: El último caballeroFilming Locations:
Michigan Motion Picture Studios, 1999 Centerpoint Parkway, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
If
you've the other transformers movies, then frankly, you have probably
already seen this movie. My advice, this film's not worth seeing... at
all. It is what is to be expected from a Michael Bay directed
transformers movie: Explosions galore, painful and awkward humour, badly
written characters, unfunny stereotypes, women included just for the
sake of being hot, Optimus Prime is barely in this movie, shameless
product placement, cluttered action sequences etc. But later on more about this.
The good news about the latest Transformers movie is that —
spoiler alert! — the world gets saved at the conclusion. The bad news is
that it leaves the opportunity for more Transformers movies.
This profitable franchise has not exactly enjoyed critical praise since its first installment in 2007, and Transformers: The Last Knight is unlikely to change that. But bad reviews are unlikely to dissuade the series’ fans, who enjoy seeing lots of things blown up, with director Michael Bay once again happy to oblige. That the film required no less than six editors doesn't come as a surprise.
Anyone capable of explaining the near-incomprehensible storyline deserves a prize of some sort. Suffice it to say that the world is very much in peril; there are lots of large-scale battles involving robots good and bad; and Mark Wahlberg, who returns after making his first appearance in 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, hasn’t forgone his rigorous exercise routine.
There’s no denying the narrative ambitions of the screenplay penned by three writers, with Akiva Goldsman contributing to the story. It includes a prologue set in the Middle Ages, with appearances by the Knights of the Round Table, a soused Merlin (an unrecognizable Stanley Tucci) and the Transformers, who apparently arrived on Earth a lot earlier than we thought. The action then shifts to the present day — or, as we’re helpfully informed, “1,600 years later” — with an English lord, Sir Edmond Burton (Anthony Hopkins), desperate to find an all-important talisman. Said mystical object just happens to wind up in the possession of Cade Yeager (Wahlberg), whose junkyard provides a perfect place for the Autobots to hang out.
Joined by such allies as Izabella (Isabel Moner), a plucky 14-year-old girl, and Viviane (Laura Haddock), a sexy Oxford professor, Cade goes about the business of trying to thwart the evil Megatron (Frank Welker). Although such Autobot allies as Bumblebee (Erik Aadahl), Hound (John Goodman), Hot Rod (Omar Sy), Drift (Ken Watanabe) and Daytrader (Steve Buscemi) pitch in to help, Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) has gone AWOL. And when he finally does show up, he seems to be having an identity crisis.
Among the characters returning from previous installments are Colonel Lennox (Josh Duhamel), who makes the military look good, and Agent Simmons (John Turturro), now unhappily cooling his heels in Cuba. Newcomers include Cogman (Jim Carter), Sir Edmond’s personal robot, who bears a strong resemblance to C-3PO, and Cade’s friend Jimmy (Jerrod Carmichael), whose main purpose seems to be providing comic relief … a task at which he fails.
The sprawling action includes a flashback depicting the Transformers battling Nazis and an explosive battle at Stonehenge that keeps you on the edge of your seat with concern for the ancient stones. And while there’s no shortage of large-scale set pieces, the storyline provides so many opportunities for attempts at droll humor, most of it involving Hopkins' dotty character, that the proceedings start to resemble drawing-room comedy. It’s all an overstuffed mess, but that was true of the previous entries as well, and audiences obviously don’t seem to mind.
The camera work is absolutely awesome, each action sequences has no many different angles and slow motions, oh I have to correct myself here, super slow motion, which is something new, yes. But on the other each, and I mean literally each slow motion is power down to super slow motion that the movie has an explaination why we have 29 minutes over the extended usual cinema version. Michael Bay is addicted to make a movie to an epic screen-play, but here it is simply too much. The color grading is good, I liked the dark looks of the movie and also the creatures and autobots are darker than usual, if you compare the other parts before.
The setting is on the earth, in the past, in the future, in space, and so on, no spoiler here.
The music is epic, it is loud. The funny thing in the movie is that there two characters (not telling you who) who are making jokes about the epic kind of music, really cool idea by Bay.
I wanted to point out the outfits of some characters, most likely leathered clothing girls and cool looking guys, as always in that frenchise, here we have old symbols again which was nice to see.
Stay seated until the very end of the movie because you will understand the message of the fifth part only if you stay seated, and you will have a surprise for sure.
I liked the dark sound of the movie, funny moments, it is action only, girls in leather, cars, robots, action and action, there are many sequences where you can close your eyes and after that in still inside of the storytelling, and the movie is describing itself. It is action and mainstream.
Wahlberg, as usual, gives it his all, although he’s already announced that he’s departing the series after this. Haddock makes for a fun, sexy foil, and Hopkins, who’s clearly entered the baroque phase of his career, seems to be having a great deal of fun — although every time he smiles, it seems less organic to his character and more about the new beach house he’s going to buy with the money he’s raking in. The movie is easy to understand, we always know what will come next. The jokes are not funny, but only sometimes, the epic without any end is tiring, the characters overall are totally under their value, I mean we don't get enough storytelling here and it is like there is no base to the audience. The settings are super crazy, may it be good or not. But again there were also 3 minutes of epic happiness. Watch it.
Thanks for reading and again the movie is made for cinemas and if you look for action only, you'll love it but if not, then you won't miss anything.
However, have fun watching Transformers 5, in cinemas now.
This profitable franchise has not exactly enjoyed critical praise since its first installment in 2007, and Transformers: The Last Knight is unlikely to change that. But bad reviews are unlikely to dissuade the series’ fans, who enjoy seeing lots of things blown up, with director Michael Bay once again happy to oblige. That the film required no less than six editors doesn't come as a surprise.
Anyone capable of explaining the near-incomprehensible storyline deserves a prize of some sort. Suffice it to say that the world is very much in peril; there are lots of large-scale battles involving robots good and bad; and Mark Wahlberg, who returns after making his first appearance in 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, hasn’t forgone his rigorous exercise routine.
There’s no denying the narrative ambitions of the screenplay penned by three writers, with Akiva Goldsman contributing to the story. It includes a prologue set in the Middle Ages, with appearances by the Knights of the Round Table, a soused Merlin (an unrecognizable Stanley Tucci) and the Transformers, who apparently arrived on Earth a lot earlier than we thought. The action then shifts to the present day — or, as we’re helpfully informed, “1,600 years later” — with an English lord, Sir Edmond Burton (Anthony Hopkins), desperate to find an all-important talisman. Said mystical object just happens to wind up in the possession of Cade Yeager (Wahlberg), whose junkyard provides a perfect place for the Autobots to hang out.
Joined by such allies as Izabella (Isabel Moner), a plucky 14-year-old girl, and Viviane (Laura Haddock), a sexy Oxford professor, Cade goes about the business of trying to thwart the evil Megatron (Frank Welker). Although such Autobot allies as Bumblebee (Erik Aadahl), Hound (John Goodman), Hot Rod (Omar Sy), Drift (Ken Watanabe) and Daytrader (Steve Buscemi) pitch in to help, Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) has gone AWOL. And when he finally does show up, he seems to be having an identity crisis.
Among the characters returning from previous installments are Colonel Lennox (Josh Duhamel), who makes the military look good, and Agent Simmons (John Turturro), now unhappily cooling his heels in Cuba. Newcomers include Cogman (Jim Carter), Sir Edmond’s personal robot, who bears a strong resemblance to C-3PO, and Cade’s friend Jimmy (Jerrod Carmichael), whose main purpose seems to be providing comic relief … a task at which he fails.
The sprawling action includes a flashback depicting the Transformers battling Nazis and an explosive battle at Stonehenge that keeps you on the edge of your seat with concern for the ancient stones. And while there’s no shortage of large-scale set pieces, the storyline provides so many opportunities for attempts at droll humor, most of it involving Hopkins' dotty character, that the proceedings start to resemble drawing-room comedy. It’s all an overstuffed mess, but that was true of the previous entries as well, and audiences obviously don’t seem to mind.
The camera work is absolutely awesome, each action sequences has no many different angles and slow motions, oh I have to correct myself here, super slow motion, which is something new, yes. But on the other each, and I mean literally each slow motion is power down to super slow motion that the movie has an explaination why we have 29 minutes over the extended usual cinema version. Michael Bay is addicted to make a movie to an epic screen-play, but here it is simply too much. The color grading is good, I liked the dark looks of the movie and also the creatures and autobots are darker than usual, if you compare the other parts before.
The setting is on the earth, in the past, in the future, in space, and so on, no spoiler here.
The music is epic, it is loud. The funny thing in the movie is that there two characters (not telling you who) who are making jokes about the epic kind of music, really cool idea by Bay.
I wanted to point out the outfits of some characters, most likely leathered clothing girls and cool looking guys, as always in that frenchise, here we have old symbols again which was nice to see.
Stay seated until the very end of the movie because you will understand the message of the fifth part only if you stay seated, and you will have a surprise for sure.
I liked the dark sound of the movie, funny moments, it is action only, girls in leather, cars, robots, action and action, there are many sequences where you can close your eyes and after that in still inside of the storytelling, and the movie is describing itself. It is action and mainstream.
Wahlberg, as usual, gives it his all, although he’s already announced that he’s departing the series after this. Haddock makes for a fun, sexy foil, and Hopkins, who’s clearly entered the baroque phase of his career, seems to be having a great deal of fun — although every time he smiles, it seems less organic to his character and more about the new beach house he’s going to buy with the money he’s raking in. The movie is easy to understand, we always know what will come next. The jokes are not funny, but only sometimes, the epic without any end is tiring, the characters overall are totally under their value, I mean we don't get enough storytelling here and it is like there is no base to the audience. The settings are super crazy, may it be good or not. But again there were also 3 minutes of epic happiness. Watch it.
7.5/10 genre
3/10 overall
Thanks for reading and again the movie is made for cinemas and if you look for action only, you'll love it but if not, then you won't miss anything.
However, have fun watching Transformers 5, in cinemas now.
