With last being in the title this should be the last
one but it obviously won't. These films really should have ended after the
train wreck of a third and they have only gone down from there. After age of
extinction one would think it couldn't get much worse but when it comes to
Michael Bay, he has to constantly one up himself, even in horrendousness. Unfortunately,
no audience has the guts to stand up to Mr. Bay and say we won't take your
nonsensical garbage anymore but that does not appear to be coming close. It may
be starting to happen in the US but the rest of the world appears to be willing
to continue to throw money at him. There is no comprehensible plot since
Cybertron was destroyed in the previous film but now has returned be again a
focal point. Bay continues to push the boundaries of objectifying pedophilia
with an even younger actress, Isabela Moner, entering the franchise for no discernable
reason other than to replace Mark Wahlberg's daughter who was either too
expensive or too old to bring back. Bay also tries to poke fun at the previous
criticisms of his transformer films with numerous jokes about racial
appropriation. He also tries to do a tone of call backs to the other films that
are utterly out of place and absurdly convenient. Now to attempt to explain
the film. Cade (Mark Wahlberg) is running between Chicago and North Dakota like
it is they are just down the street from each other. There is honestly a battle
sequence where case is our heroes are supposedly running through an abandoned
town in North Dakota and suddenly they are running up skyscrapers that look
suspiciously like Chicago and then are suddenly in the wasteland again. It is
shockingly reminiscent of Bay's teleportation powers from revenge of the fallen
jumping the heroes from Washington DC to the Nevada vehicle bone yard by
smashing down a door. This film basically shows the world how little he thinks
of his audience that we can't follow basic geography. Anyway, Cade is somehow
chosen as the last knight which has no effect on the film other than to
constantly put him in the right place at the right time with literally no
training or skill that is ever needed. Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) is
corrupted by his maker, Quintessa (Gemma Chan). The world has completely turned
on all transformers, Autobot and Decepticon alike. This is a convenient way to
bring back Josh Duhamel’s character who is actively killing Autobots to try and
be the moral center of the government which has no morality. He is also there
to be the guy to tell the humans to automatically switch sides and join the Autobots
to save a world that is already being destroyed. Michael Bay continues to think
we are all stupid in thinking the audience will ignore when you crash another
planet into earth, billions, not millions, billions of people die. The world
can't go back to having logical government with such loss of life. Bay simply
glosses over this, like he has in all previous iterations and teases even more
horror with a 6th film. It is just utter and complete garbage and if I could
give it lower than an F I would but sadly there is no lower a grade
F
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