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Rating: 7 stars

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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Directed by Michael Bay

Science Fiction | Action | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, CaptainBigTime, schofizzy

Overview

Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.

Rated PG-13 | Length 154 minutes

Actors

Mark Wahlberg | Laura Haddock | Peter Cullen | Anthony Hopkins | Erik Aadahl | Josh Duhamel | Gemma Chan | Jim Carter | Santiago Cabrera | Isabela Moner | Jerrod Carmichael | Stanley Tucci | Liam Garrigan | Martin McCreadie | Rob Witcomb | Marcus Fraser | John Hollingworth | Daniel Adegboyega | Benjamin Maurice Webb | Glenn Morshower | John Turturro | Tony Hale | Claude Knowlton | Jacob Zachar | Maggie Steed | Sara Stewart | Phoebe Nicholls | Rebecca Front | Stephen Hogan | Minti Gorne | Benjamin Flores Jr. | Juliocesar Chavez | Samuel Parker | Daniel Iturriaga | Aisha Kabia | Andy Bean | Sam Yim | Mark Dexter | Rob Jarvis | Tim Downie | Elizabeth Croft | Emily Tierney | Wolfgang Young | Nicholas Khan | Leighton Sharpe | Christina Tam | Aiyaz Ahmed | Pauline McLynn | Matthew Castle | Mia Maria | Poppy Carter | Seeta Indrani | Phill Langhorne | Simon Harrison | Wendy Albiston | John Burke | Barbara Eve Harris | Granville Ames | Jim Wisniewski | Mitch Pileggi | Remi Adeleke | Perry Yee | Brian William Price | Vincent Jerome | Alan Pietruszewski | Christoper Vasquez | Drew Waters | Krista Schaeffer | Walles Hamonde | Tom Wright | Dan Warner | Michael Richard | Charles Bouguenon | Jandre le Roux | Frank Welker | John Goodman | Ken Watanabe | Steve Buscemi | Omar Sy | Reno Wilson | John DiMaggio | Tom Kenny | Jess Harnell | Mark Ryan | Steven Barr | Gil Birmingham | Eddie Hall | Kevin Kent | Jude Poyer

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Despite not being to follow half of what was happening I enjoyed this movie. On par with the previous film, which I also enjoyed (hated 2 and 3, however). If I understand the plot correctly, they need to get Merlin’s staff to stop the Transformer Queen from devouring the Earth. Yet they take every possible long route to get to this with a bunch of extra side plotting and scenes just because… ? Maybe Michael Bay had all these ideas and wanted to squeeze them into the movie so they wrote and wrote more making the film extra bloated.

I think there’s a much better tighter film in there if they just intro’d the old team and the London setup with Laura Haddock (who thankfully has more to do here than be “dying mom” a la Guardians). Bring these two groups together then chase the staff to the final battle. But there’s so much more junk in here that maybe seemed cool on paper but just wastes screentime (the intro of all those imprisoned Decepticons is just one example).

Because it’s so long and overstuffed it makes it hard to revisit. But there are things I want to revisit. I’ll probably watch the previous film again then go see this at the $4 theater.

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