Transformers: The Last Knight review

This is the fifth Transformers film to be directed by Michael Bay, and once again features Mark Wahlberg as the human protagonist as a usually overcrowded story takes place.

I had a thought while watching The Last Knight. This thought wasn't provoked by any moment in particular, but by the film as a whole. I don't think Michael Bay has ever seen an episode of the original Transformers series. That series was made to sell toys but featured fleshed out Transformers, detailed lore, and reasons to keep watching. The only thing that Bay seems to have successfully transferred over is the toy advert angle, but he could have got that from an actual toy advert. I had this thought because of all the Bay-isms, inconsistencies in continuity and murder of the lore that is present in The Last Knight.

I'm not sure how I didn't realise this before. Maybe it's because I was younger when the other films came out. Though now that I think about it, it is pretty obvious. Just think about the way the Autobots and Decepticons are portrayed, the wasting of The Fallen, the treatment of Sentinel Prime, Galvatron in the last film, a GIANT spoiler for this film. Then there is the mistreatment of the main and side characters between films (apparently Simmons can walk again, Galvatron is Megatron again, and what every happened to Lennox's family that was mentioned in the first film). And there is one glaring problem facing the conclusion of a character's story that feels extremely like an afterthought just to wrap things up. And the basic story is very similar to the third.

In fact, this film is really not that different from the other films. But I didn't care.

If you don't like the other Transformers films then you're not going to like this either. I just enjoy watching giant robots hit each other. It's as simple as that. The second time I saw this I made the mistake of trying to think. Please, please, don't make the same mistake I did. Just don't think. It's as simple as that. Don't think. Think and you're dead. This is dumb. Dumber than you can imagine. Don't turn it on. Don't look away. And don't think. Good Luck.

In short: It's a Transformers movie.