Despicable Me 3 anyone

Transformers: The Last Knight(2017)

Review:
let me get this straight, i'm not from G1 era(unfortunately), but i've got a fair share of experience being a transformers fans too, especially transformers: Prime the animated series. now take all of that aside, this movie is totally disappointing, compared to part 4(Age of Extinction). and even then, AoE is already the worst in this franchise, so saying that this is better than the 4th ain't gonna mean too much improvement either....

In terms of plot, i initially thought that this movie gonna have more than what it actually had, in terms of story wise.. Remember back in Dark of The Moons, where things get serious real quick because the resurrection of Cybertron may mean the doom of Earth, and that things were really really heavy at the last act where majority of Decepticons invade Chicago and held captives of the remaining Autobots??

Yup, that's the kind of tense atmosphere that I was(at least) hoping for in this movie, but it's all bland... There's clearly no tension at all, the stakes are high, we know that Earth is about to get destroyed by Cybertron if they didn't act fast, but, if you really compare the last act of this movie with DoTM, there's really nothing to focus on in terms of story progression in this movie. And apart from that, there are some interesting lore that caught my attention in the movies where I hoped we would get more out of it(Like how/when did Unicron became Earth, how did Megatron drastically changes his body from AoE, who and how does the Autobots submarine ship looks like), but, Bay just skipped all of it, sadly.

In terms of characterization, well Mark is still the same old Mark,the human characters(TRF and the armies) are just nothing unusual, as expected, but what irks me the most is that, rather than focusing more on Optimus(or the other robots), Bay decided to yet again ruin the film by introducing new children in it. I mean, no offence, in fact, if you were to take a look at few of the transformers animated series, children or at most teens are the one that will be rallying side by side with the Autobots, given great dialogue and purposes, these kids may as well bring some new experience in this movie.

But that's not it, the kids are there without any purposes at all, heck, I don't even remember at which part did they contribute their role in the flow of the story. And when it comes to the robots themselves, most are just the same, aside from Bumblebee's upgrade and his final moment in reversing Optimus' role, but what pains me is that some of Optimus' dialogue is just downright cringy. Like just when the Knights are about to slay down Optimus, he said: Cade, they are going to kill me.... Like yeah, no shit Obvious Prime! Seeing Peter Cullen with his iconic voice saying this is just hurting me, Peter Cullen deserves more than that...

Rating:
Overall, after taking into account of bland and weak story-line, unbalanced story pace, little-to-none characterization, somewhat okay CG, I'd give it a 3/10

Save for spiderman homecoming even better😄👍

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