Transformers the Last Knight is the fifth film in the series and is once again directed by Michael Bay and concerns the tale of the 12 Knights who guarded a sacred talisman that could help rebuild Cybertron but Optimus (Peter Cullen) and Megatron (Frank Welker) may once again find themselves on opposite sides.
I was not looking forward to this movie mainly because of the endlessness of this franchise and Bay’s involvement in it each of the films he has made have been long, loud, mind numbing, dizzy, head ache inducing and just no good fun at all but alas like the gigantic sucker I can sometimes be I’ll see a good preview for it and off I go and here it was hearing Welker so I went one please.
And actually it wasn’t all that bad for 3 reasons and I’ll start off by combining 2 of them into one and that is hearing both Cullen and Welker playing their iconic roles again did bring me some joy and also made me want to imitate their voices every time they were on screen though sadly they don’t get anywhere near the screen time that they should have gotten and the continuous waste of especially Cullen feels criminal given that he’s the main character on all of the advertising materials.
The third reason was Sir Anthony Hopkins who plays an English lord and hams it up to such a degree that you again just can’t help but smile at one point he barks at some people to shut up and I fully expected him to go fffffffffffff like he did in Silence of the Lambs if ever an actor has mastered the art of phoning it in, hamming it up for a big paycheque most likely for a nice new Ivory Backscratcher it is this man and he is a master of it.
Sadly however the film is a dizzying mess to sit through and I have to start with Bay’s direction as it is really bad every single shot, edit and cut is all over the place even to the point of the smegging aspect ratio changing from 1.85:1 to 2.35:1 it is of Starscream level incompetence and Megatron always knew to put him in his place with a nicely aimed shot from his Riot Cannon and frankly I wish he would use it to boot Bay from this series as it has gone on long enough.
As for the storyline well it is a mess regarding the Knights of King Arthur and WW2 and post Dark of the Moon and I just gave up trying to follow it and really enjoyed Sir Anthony Hopkins be a grade A Ham and Mark Wahlberg run out of breath every single line and Cullen and Welker go at it like they did in the original series and animated movie.
And so that was Transformers the Last Knight a dizzying experience that made me feel a little light headed but it is time now to end Bay’s involvement and reboot this series especially with 2 fantastic video games War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron begging for film adaptations as those were fantastic and would make fantastic films if done well, 2 out of 5.
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