Transformers: The Last Knight

Tale of two halves for me. First half the film is utter garbage and could easily lose 30 minutes without taking anything away from the film / story. Then once the story kicks in and starts to make a bit of sense the second half the film is not bad. Optimus prime is hardly in it for the die hards. As a true G1 fan my heart does weep a little as apart from the first movie, they have all been pretty dire tbh, gradually so. As a standalone film you could also say its not bad, but considering this is number 5 and as per previous films the continuity from the previous 4 has pretty much gone i dont know how the movie execs sign the story off.

Hopefully Bay sticks to his word and this will be his last one, as stated above its set up for another one but hopefully not with him at the helm.

Also bay films are so predictable its laughable. Again in this movie there were 2 or 3 scenes where the main character(s) are sliding down a smooth surface trying to grab onto something, as well as everything else bay esque!!!.
 
Awful 80's G1 cartoon movie!!!! Get your coat!! It's amazing! Perfect even! Loved it as a kid and as an adult it's full of amazing 80's cheese to just laugh at. People don't enjoy the new transformers films now let alone in 30 years. The 80s movie might not be enjoyed seriously but it's still enjoyable.
 
Sorry but how the **** is barricade still alive after he got blown apart at the end of TF3? This is as bad as him magically disappearing from the final battle at the end of the original movie that was never explained, he was meant to be taken out by prime on his way to the final fight but some weird editing error totally omitted that scene.

I also love how Megatron dumped the transforming technology that let him evade missiles to going back to the old style transformations...makes a ton of sense.
 
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Just....just..wtf did i just watch? So many contradictions and plot holes in this movie. I think my Brain is still trying to process the visual cluster **** i just witnessed.
 
Got a free ticket to this and im seriously not going to go.

I just watched 1 2 3 and 4 on Netflix and Bluray and 4 was just a joke. I can't even begin to think about another one.
 
Well after my brain cooled down for a bit, the eyebrow raising points for me. Rest assured the crack that was on offer and was clearly indulged in heavily in the writing room when they were coming up with the concept of this movie must have been some grade A stuff:

So Prime blasts off into space at the end of the last movie, freezes up at some point and conveniently crashes into Cybertron (what are the odds huh) at the same time his creator just happens to be visiting (again incredibly convenient) and all it takes to turn him is a slap and 20 seconds of waffle?

Barricade reappears after being destroyed at the end of the Third movie, and again plays a very minor part and doesn't show up to the end fight.

Wheelie is back after apparently being killed at the end of part 3.

Megatron has somehow ditched his "next gen" Transformation gimmick that let him evade attacks and decided to go back to the "clunk click clank" transformation...because who needs to dodge attacks? Plus he appears to have a totally new body somehow (traded the new one in??)...facially he looks kind of like Ultron from Avengers.

This is the fourth time in one of these movies that there is some all powerful "maguffin" sitting around that everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten about until the movie started. The Allspark in part one, the Matrix in part 2,the Space Bridge devices in part 3, and now Merlins staff in this.

Prime apparently hasn't heard Bumblebees voice since Cybertron fell...or to be more accurate since the end of the first movie.

Just who the hell are all these Decepticons that Megatron wanted freed? Would bringing back some old ones that had previous appearances not have made more sense? Oh wait..I forgot, Toy sales.

Grimlock went from being a legendary knight in part 4 to essentially a big stupid slobbering dog in this. The Dinobots barely appear in it either and aren't present at the final battle.

Unicron is not a Planet devouring planet sized transformer, instead Unicron is earth and apparently Unicrons only power is to stick some random horns out of the ground and thats it? WUT?? That just made absolutely zero sense, horns come out of the ground and that's it? Its even more confusing when you factor in the credits scene with Quintessa telling the scientists that "unicron" doesn't like to be touched. So is that hinting there's a giant transformer hiding inside earth who was about to be destroyed but just didn't do anything about it besides stick up some horns?

Apparently people throwing out random swearwords left and right is "the funny".
 
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Not a single good thing about this movie - glad I went to see it on a free ticket.

Also felt like half the movie scenes were dropped as little made sense or connected.
 
Gerard said:
Well after my brain cooled down for a bit, the eyebrow raising points for me. Rest assured the crack that was on offer and was clearly indulged in heavily in the writing room when they were coming up with the concept of this movie must have been some grade A stuff:

So Prime blasts off into space at the end of the last movie, freezes up at some point and conveniently crashes into Cybertron (what are the odds huh) at the same time his creator just happens to be visiting (again incredibly convenient) and all it takes to turn him is a slap and 20 seconds of waffle?

Barricade reappears after being destroyed at the end of the Third movie, and again plays a very minor part and doesn't show up to the end fight.

Wheelie is back after apparently being killed at the end of part 3.

Megatron has somehow ditched his "next gen" Transformation gimmick that let him evade attacks and decided to go back to the "clunk click clank" transformation...because who needs to dodge attacks? Plus he appears to have a totally new body somehow (traded the new one in??)...facially he looks kind of like Ultron from Avengers.

This is the fourth time in one of these movies that there is some all powerful "maguffin" sitting around that everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten about until the movie started. The Allspark in part one, the Matrix in part 2,the Space Bridge devices in part 3, and now Merlins staff in this.

Prime apparently hasn't heard Bumblebees voice since Cybertron fell...or to be more accurate since the end of the first movie.

Just who the hell are all these Decepticons that Megatron wanted freed? Would bringing back some old ones that had previous appearances not have made more sense? Oh wait..I forgot, Toy sales.

Grimlock went from being a legendary knight in part 4 to essentially a big stupid slobbering dog in this. The Dinobots barely appear in it either and aren't present at the final battle.

Unicron is not a Planet devouring planet sized transformer, instead Unicron is earth and apparently Unicrons only power is to stick some random horns out of the ground and thats it? WUT?? That just made absolutely zero sense, horns come out of the ground and that's it? Its even more confusing when you factor in the credits scene with Quintessa telling the scientists that "unicron" doesn't like to be touched. So is that hinting there's a giant transformer hiding inside earth who was about to be destroyed but just didn't do anything about it besides stick up some horns?

Apparently people throwing out random swearwords left and right is "the funny".
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Thanks for all that. I only ever went to see one transformers film in the cinema and that was the first one. Cheers for the breakdown on the story - thank god Bay is out of the picture now.
 
Kainz said:
Thanks for all that. I only ever went to see one transformers film in the cinema and that was the first one. Cheers for the breakdown on the story - thank god Bay is out of the picture now.
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Wouldn't surprise me if he comes back for one more, after all he set up the next movie with the credits scene in this.
 
So glad I didn't shell out for IMAX on this.

Loved the first 3 but 4 and 5 are terrible! I mean seriously seriously bad!

They need to scrap it completely, wait 4 / 5 years and reboot as I don't know how '6' can make up for all the crap in the previous movies.
 
IvanDobskey said:
I'm amazed at the amount of people on this forum who are watching this garbage :p

I thought most people on here were fairly intelligent ;)
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It ticks all the boxes for a brain out action flick with huge set pieces and explosions, yes the plot is thin but Transformers have never been heavy on the plot.
 
@IvanDobskey, I'm surprised I went to see it but I was bored. The plot was utter ***** there can be no denying that. I do still like the car porn (that Centenario sounded like utter sex) and mil-porn but there is no excuse for the story. Don't forget the porn-porn too, Laura Haddock looked rather good in that dress. I felt like I had PTSD when I came out of the cinema, shocked and confused.

Random thoughts:
- Someone picked up on this but why are all the black characters or 'black' sounding robots (how? why?) utterly retarded and/or wannabe gangsters? Surprised no SJWs are talking about this. Even I was mildly offended.
- Someone else mentioned the moon being destroyed having no discernible effect on the Earth,
- Retarded reason for Optimus snapping out of his trance,
- They must have paid Hopkins an absolute **** ton of money to utter his lines,
- Grimlock and the Dinobots were good fun (not a Transformers fanboy so don't mind their portrayal being 'wrong')
- Cade and Vivian should have been killed when they fell like 50ft and smashed their legs then head onto solid ground,
- Humans always narrowly avoid death by millimetres,
- A number of questionable shots of the nascent boobs of a 14 year old character.

Can't recommend anyone goes to see this.

EDIT - Got absolutely panned in the reviews too.
 
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NewGamer11 said:
@IvanDobskey, I'm surprised I went to see it but I was bored. The plot was utter ***** there can be no denying that. I do still like the car porn (that Centenario sounded like utter sex) and mil-porn but there is no excuse for the story. Don't forget the porn-porn too, Laura Haddock looked rather good in that dress. I felt like I had PTSD when I came out of the cinema, shocked and confused.

Random thoughts:
- Someone picked up on this but why are all the black characters or 'black' sounding robots (how? why?) utterly retarded and/or wannabe gangsters? Surprised no SJWs are talking about this. Even I was mildly offended.
- Someone else mentioned the moon being destroyed having no discernible effect on the Earth,
- Retarded reason for Optimus snapping out of his trance,
- They must have paid Hopkins an absolute **** ton of money to utter his lines,
- Grimlock and the Dinobots were good fun (not a Transformers fanboy so don't mind their portrayal being 'wrong')
- Cade and Vivian should have been killed when they fell like 50ft and smashed their legs then head onto solid ground,
- Humans always narrowly avoid death by millimetres,
- A number of questionable shots of the nascent boobs of a 14 year old character.

Can't recommend anyone goes to see this.

EDIT - Got absolutely panned in the reviews too.
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Sounds like a typical Michael bay film to me then :p

I guess you don't go to see them for the plot or acting quality....
 
Glanza said:
It ticks all the boxes for a brain out action flick with huge set pieces and explosions, yes the plot is thin but Transformers have never been heavy on the plot.
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I went to the cinema wanting an action flick but even this was too much. 3hrs of stuff blowing up. A firework show would have had more of a plot
 
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