GIANT MACHINES 2017 TRANSFORMERS TV
This gives the film the weird sense of being the season premiere and season finale of a TV show awkwardly sandwiched together. (My favorite detail: Cuba is now a safe haven for Transformers, where they reside under the watchful eye of Castro and John Turturro.) This leaves the first hour (of a 160-minute running time) for the film to catch up with all of the returning characters and the state of the world in re: Transformers since the last film. But it takes forever to get to this point - much less to externalize the threat Cybertron poses to Earth beyond really, really fucking with our tides. The imminent arrival of Cybertron is, as robot disaster movies go, not a bad premise for a robot disaster movie.
GIANT MACHINES 2017 TRANSFORMERS MOVIE
Mark Wahlberg and Laura Haddock play the most prominent humans in this movie about robots. He elevates the movie at least a half-star. The movie gives Hopkins the most preposterous dialogue, and he delivers all of it like it’s grand theater. He’s joined by plucky young orphan Izabella ( Isabela Moner) and love interest Vivian ( Laura Haddock, bringing a surprising amount to an underwritten part), who was, I suspect, originally written as “British Megan Fox.” And that’s to say nothing of the rest of the motley cast, which includes everybody from the voice of John Goodman to Jerrod Carmichael.Īnd finally, there’s Hopkins, who is having the time of his life as an elderly British lord who really cares about Transformers. I think it would most accurately capture the spirit of his performance.) (Free idea to the online video makers of the world: Transformers Minus Transformers, which is just Mark Wahlberg wandering around, shouting at giant robots that aren’t there. That diverse, disparate cast of characters includes Cade Yeager ( Mark Wahlberg), the hero of the last film, who is here reduced to standing around while people and/or robots tell him how important he is when it’s revealed what role he has to play in the overall plot, it’s over so quickly you might miss it. There’s some business with Arthurian legend, but the bulk of the film consists of waiting for Cybertron to show up. Here, a diverse, disparate cast of characters scattered around the globe have to deal with the latest threat to humankind posed by the Transformers: the arrival of the planet Cybertron into near-Earth orbit, that it might suck up all of our resources and return to glorious mechanical life. (One of Bay’s earliest hits was Armageddon, and almost all of his films since have carried a sense of impending apocalypse.) The Last Knight is a good reminder that in the eyes of director Michael Bay, the Transformers movies have always been at least one part disaster flick. The Transformers franchise continues to be our semi-regular deep dive into the psyche of one Michael Bay Megatron has had enough of your nonsense. There’s fun to be had in The Last Knight, if you can find it among the chaos - and if you can remember it after the fact.
If you’re mostly indifferent, it’s not going to change your mind. So, sure: If you like the Transformers, you might like this a lot. Others with more affection for the franchise have suggested it worked really well for them. In the end, The Last Knight kinda washed over me, like all the other Transformers movies. It’s really cool! I’ll bet the action figure of it is cool too!
It might be the primary thing I remember about it now! I could tell you other things about it, sure, but inevitably I’d keep coming back to that dragon. The dragon’s presence in The Last Knight might well be the only thing I remember about the film’s final battle a month from now. True to the spirit of the film (I guess?), it’s easier to distinguish each Transformers movie from the others by which toys are involved in the battles. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markīy the time the film reaches its final battle, it’s essentially impossible to distinguish it from any other film in the Transformers franchise, even though this one features a three-headed dragon and Anthony Hopkins calling Transformer Hot Rod a “bitchin’ ride.” At one point, I half wondered if I had fallen asleep and missed some scenes, because the movie seemingly skipped over such a major plot point (one that all of the marketing has centered on!) so quickly - but a viewing companion assured me that, no, the movie just worked that way.
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