Michael Bay again directs, and he and his writers (Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan are credited with the screenplay, and those three along with Akiva Goldsman with the story) put more humanity and less clanking into this installment. Mr. Several critics have panned the movie for being a mindless film.
Transformers: The Last Knight will have limited showings Tuesday night before its wide-release opening on Wednesday. We'll say 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" still is the worst, but it's close. The fifth film based on Hasbro's automobile-robot toys and cartoons is virtually indistinguishable from the aforementioned movies, and it fails for the same reasons they did: more CGI than story, more action than character, more money than heart. "You know I am looking forward to in the Bumblebee movie reliving the eighties Transformers and what those kind of cars can look like, so I think that's really fun".
Did Anthony Hopkins even read the script for the film?
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Director Michael Bay went with his signature style of filling the screens with elements that do not necessarily take your attention away from the subject and the handsome computer graphics and effects. The best touch, though, is Cogman (the voice of Jim Carter), Edmund's robotic butler, a sort of C-3PO with a temper (as a robot who aims a C-3PO joke at him finds out).
Hopkins knows the evil Megatron (Frank Welker) has plans to destroy Earth. In fact, it's Merlin (played delightfully by Stanley Tucci) who is given a staff by one of the Transformers that would give him the magic behind his sorcery. And then also, there's a bot war with the Nazis. Everything pretty much makes sense. I think the same answer could be applied to Adam Sandler and all his headache-inducing Netflix movies he's been producing lately: I believe we just love to be a part of the conversation and wisecracking. Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), the everyman inventor from the previous movie, is now hiding out with Optimus' crew in a junkyard in Dakota.
This movie is 2-1/2 hours of nothing but non-stop action, excitement, surprises and awesome special effects. If this is truly the last outing for Bay as director of the franchise, he goes out the only way he knows how with a big brainless outing that will always have fans wondering what could have been if someone else was in charge. Hold the hallelujahs: Bay has set a pattern that can go on poisoning the well as long this stuff turns a profit. Some might argue that this is just a simple movie with cool explosions that's meant for kids. His cynical, untouched-by-human-hands approach to filmmaking is that a sucker is born every minute and he's here to serve.
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