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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Transformers: The Last Knight



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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