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OK, that did it, I'm Done with watching Transformers movies at the theater. I will just wait until the next movies are on video or ready to stream. I am a huge Transformers fan and I know the mythology well but this movie takes the mythology and flips it upside down and backward. As a movie on its own, it is a hot mess of bad writing, editing, and pacing. BUT Michael does know how to shoot a "scene" but they are strung together incoherently.

So What I Liked were the music and the effects. That's pretty much it. Steve Jablonsky's score was over 100 times better than this movie deserves. I really like how he brought back some of the original themes but made them the sound of desperation. The confusing climax had this mellow desperate theme (you hear in the trailer) that in a better movie would have worked very well but it does nothing for you because whats on screen is in the way. The two tracks that are worth noting are "Sacrifice" and "We Have To Go". Just listen to those tracks and if you have a filmmaking state of mind you can imagine a better movie with those tones. Also, the special effects were well done compared to AGE OF EXTINCTION's hammy job. I know it's all CGI that we have seen before but the imagery that was composed is awesome to look at especially the climax with the parts of the planet hanging down and "scraping" earth.

Now What I Didn't Like (Got Time? then read on) #1 the editing. This is by far, to me, the worst edited movie in history. Like I said Michael Bay films the scenes very well (like the opening battle) but when they are put together you have no idea what the hell is going on. And then the noticeable aspect ratio. So nobody in the editing room noticed that different shots had black bars at the top and bottom disappearing then reappearing. This happens because some shots were shot in IMAX. I do defend Michael Bay because I do think he is a better director than this (The Rock, Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) but he really dropped the ball on this film. He knows how to shoot a sequence but that's all it has going for it. If you watch a couple of shots on YouTube before seeing the movie you would be like "wow that looks like a good movie" NO it's just a good shot and sequence. And supposedly they had a writers room come up with a plot by using Transformers mythos, HUH? Well, a lot of things irked me. Without giving away any spoilers I'm gonna name the mythos they got wrong (if you are a Transformers fan then you'll know what Im talking about)...Nemesis Prime, Bumblebee's Abilities, Hot Rod, Megatron/Galvatron, The Quintassons, Cybertron, Barricade???,The Ark, and a very important evil transformer that I will not give away the name because it is a spoiler but once you find out what his alternate mode is your gonna flip and wanna walk out of the theater.

I am so glad that Michael Bay is going to step down as director of this series because obviously, he does not care about the problems these films have. I say hire an up a coming director who gives a damn about making a good movie and not in it for the cash grab. But as for now, I am done spending my money in hopes of a great movie experience. Want to see a good Transformers movie, then go see the animated "The Transformers- The Movie"

Now that I've seen all the movies, I'm just done with Michael Bay directing Transformers movies. It was alright the first time around, but the sequels are what have gotten the franchise progressively worse. And I believe that this is an ultimate nail to the coffin. Transformers: The Last Night is not only the worst movie of the franchise yet, but also an absolute disgrace as an action film. It fails at being a real continuation of the franchise, and it has a complete lack of thought or care into why people would want to watch those movies in the first place with a disastrous writing that creates a story that ever exists, inconsistent cinematography and editing that doesn't know the appropriate time to change the shots, special effects that feel out of place at this point, an entire cast of unappealing characters, and boring action that makes the movie feel much longer. Even if you're a Transformers fan, I highly suggest avoiding this one at all cost. It's not just there are better Transformers movies that did come out after this. But you know that there are better things to come out of Transformers such as TV shows. I recommend doing all that instead of watching this film because at least that will save you from watching a fifth installment that has no excitement. If anyone is ever going to be making a followup to this, at least get a better director to handle that next film.

Transformers: the Last Knight is a movie which I also hope to be the last transformers movie. Michael Bay is like a kid with too many toys and unlimited money who throws all the action figures, cars, choppers, submarines, EVERYTHING, into this ridiculous mess he calls a movie. It is too long, too messy, too choppy, and jumps everywhere his whims takes him.

Okay so if you're a transformers fans maybe you will like it, you will get your action hero, your sexy girlfriend, your robots, your race- cars and tanks and all the things you boys like.

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Incoherent storytelling, overused film tropes (for example: sexy- British-professor-lady vs muscular-fast talking-American-action- hero), unnecessary sequences, jumpy locations, cringe-worthy jokes that we still laugh at because they're the only ones presented after an hour of exploding dead cities. I mean, who wrote this movie.. and why isn't anybody stopping Michael Bay from his never ending thoughts being vomited out and then jumbled together.

At one point I even thought maybe Michael Bay did this on purpose, just to see how far he can go.. make it as absurd as possible and as ludicrous as it can be. Make it worse than the Fast & Furious' unbelievable action scenes. How about use an English mythical legend story and put robots in them! Yes! That'll do it! No money? Take some Chinese products and put it so distractingly in focus so everyone can definitely see them. Oh, this movie isn't going to be set in Hong Kong again? Meh.. just add some leftover HK shots we got from last year's Transformers. There, you got your global disaster. Sure, we still need some of the old faces from the previous movies, get them in this film even though they're in a completely different location, let them help save the world via a phone call. A PHONE CALL.

The butler robot is the most interesting, and even that was wasted when Bay decided to let the robot be emotionally off at the end. A butler, you say? Yes, a C3PO lookalike. Don't worry, they somehow got to reference him in the movie as C3PO. I wonder how much extra money they had leftover that they could still throw some at Disney. They had so much money that the female professor can change clothes so many times even though they are in a hurry to save the world. She changed her work clothes into a bodycon dress (to show off her curves to the American hero character, duh), went back to the house to look for clues and changed into a white blazer, white shirt and pants combo still with high heels, then get in a submarine, takes off the blazer, and for some weird reason, because the submarine is from WW1, changes into a linen cloth Indiana Jones kind of outfit with horse-riding pants.

AND WHAT IS UP WITH THE CHANGING ASPECT RATIO!!! It keeps changing from 4:3 to 16:9 to I don't know how many different aspect ratios were used (8 different ones in the trailer).. so your field of view goes from tall to wide to tall to medium tall and back to wide.. gahhh!

I get it, some shots were done in IMAX.. some others in RED cameras.. no actually I don't get it. WHY!! Couldn't the editor crop the final cut so that the top and bottom black bars can at least be of same size!

What is this!!

~~~~~~~~~end of rant~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good parts: CGI was excellent. But as with previous transformers films, the action sequences are so dazzling (dizzying) that your eyes won't be able to keep up. That said, I feel this time we can still see clearly who's fighting who.

Anthony Hopkins: nobody can make a film sound more serious, even though it is a mindless summer blockbuster, other than sir Hopkins. and maybe Morgan Freeman.

Mark Wahlberg: what are you doing man...

I liked the robot butler character. A bit too much but still somewhat likable.

Bumblebee is still very cool looking.

Optimus Prime is still very much full of himself. (He goes into pre- battle speech 2-3 times at the end.... starting each speech with "I. Am. Optimus Prime.") This is the part where I rolled my eyes. Yeeees, we know you're optimus prime.. yeees we know you're gonna save the world..

Everything else is just sh..

If you've the other transformers movies, then frankly, you have probably already seen this movie. My advice, this film's not worth seeing... at all. It is what is to be expected from a Michael Bay directed transformers movie: Explosions galore, painful and awkward humour, badly written characters, unfunny stereotypes, women included just for the sake of being hot, Optimus Prime is barely in this movie, shameless product placement, cluttered action sequences etc.

My advice, don't bother this one, it's just the same tired and overused formula used in every other one of the movies in this franchise

Rating: 2/10

I have been a fan of Transformers since the first one, but the series seems to keep getting worse and worse, thanks to Bay and the terrible acting of the cast. The plot is just a mess, lots of things thrown at the audience pointlessly. No purpose, no sense at all. The autobots are just too boring in this film. If I have to listen to Prime saying "I am Optimus Prime" one more time, I swear to God I will tear my ears off! 1 star! But Anthony Hopkins earned an extra star from me.

Just binged all the Transformers films. I can tell you with a degree of confidence, its the same movie, over and over again, that 'movie' being Michael Bay's 1999 'Armageddon'. There are no twists, no surprises, nothing that stands out, nothing that says "you'll be glad you sat through 3 hours for this".

To be fair, I can see children enjoying this series, just not from the perspective of someone who grew up watching The Transformers on Saturday Mornings Cartoons and already watched 'Armageddon' 24 years ago. The one liners, jokes and quips all fall flat.

Also really don't fancy the physical redesigns of the autobots and decepticons, in general. Things I do like are the reoccurring characters such as Wahlberg and Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime.

I don't know what Michael Bay and the gang were thinking when they put this film together. The fourth outing was bad enough but it was like they actually thought that film was good and tripled down on the disaster that it was to make this nonsensical disaster.

I'm a child of the '80s. I grew up with the Transformers cartoon. I thought the original 2007 film was fantastic at the time and I still enjoy watching it. It has holes, sure, but it's entertaining and a well told story. The second film was hastily put together to make money and while it isn't awful it was a bad sequel. Dark of the Moon corrected some of the garbage from first sequel and in my opinion is a strong and fun film with really epic action sequences that teetered on the edge of too much but was still entertaining. The wingsuit jump is still one of the most adrenaline-filled moments on film.

The Last Knight tried to weave yet another mythology into the Transformers story in such a ridiculous and convoluted way it honestly felt like a joke at times. It was as if they forgot all about the All Spark and the Matrix of Leadership so they created yet another monumental "source of power" to bring to the table in order for the Transformers to somehow connect with the legend of King Arthur. It fails miserably.

Honestly, I had no expectations coming into this film as the trailers made it look extremely uninteresting. My assumptions were correct. They brought in new characters that seemingly had no real purpose or forced some kind of purpose onto them in such a way it was painful to watch. No knock to the actors who put in their efforts, but this was a complete and total mess of a film and really puts a bad taste in my mouth for all of the Transformers films now.

It makes me sad to see actors like Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman and Stanley Tucci in Transformers: The Last Knight. This movie is terrible. The filmmaker's approach seems to be that plot points and character's actions don't have to make sense, as long as they move the story forward. But, I'm sorry, no amount of car chases, explosions or visual effects can save this half-baked mess.

Useless movie. Didn't finish it, blood was comin'out of my eyes

As if four bloated, big-budget Bay-helmed movies were not enough for the 'Transformers' franchise, we were treated to a fifth entry in 2017's 'Transformers: The Last Knight.' In what can only be described as a strange mash-up of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table with everyone's favorite sci-fi bots, we see what happens when Earth is under a sustained attack by the hostile transformers (I guess the Decepticons?) and when Optimus Prime is not a friendly.

There really is nothing positive to say about 'Knight.' Think about how bad 2014's 'Age of Extinction' was and it's way worse than that. Aside from the horrible dialogue (expected), needlessly long runtime (expected), excessive slo-mo scenes (expected) and non-stop CGI and mechanical sound F/X (expected), we also see once great actors like Anthony Hopkins (and mediocre ones like Josh Duhamel) show up because they are in need of a paycheck. Mark Wahlberg doesn't have an excuse this time - this is his second stint in a lead role, and he just doesn't work in this franchise. But then again, no one really does, as there's nothing that makes sense about the plot, even compared to what is usually expected for 'Transformers.'

Part of the reason why 'Knight' has such a long run-time is because there are so many scenes that are just unnecessary and clog everything up. This is a hallmark of sorts of 'Transformers,' though, so it's not out of the ordinary. But it's this combined with the cringe-worthy gags that are tossed into the script that really drag things down - it's as if Michael Bay was dared to out-Bay himself and he succeeded in taking the bet.

If you're debating whether or not to watch this, do yourself a favor and re-watch the original 'Transformers.' Or go to the beach instead.

This movie is a big disappointment for me as a fan of transformers series.

Despite Hopkins and great effects movie overall fills like a big mess, where the plot had been written by some 3-years old dude together with extremely low-level jokes. I could help myself and close eyes good hour during the movie all for not to watch that shame on the screen.

The only one who enjoyed the movie was my 6-years old son. Looks like this is the highest level of their audience, what a pity.

It's nothing in comparison to first movies in series, don't waste your time on it.

The Last Knight was the film that killed the Bayverse of Transformers. It was the one that underperformed at the box office.

The Last Knight repeats a lot of the mistakes that Revenge of the Fallen. Most of the Transformers were pushed to the background for an ,Indiana Jones style treasure hunt film, Optimus Prime was missing for most of the film and had characters who were pointless like Izabella or annoying and pointless, i.e. Jimmy. Bay's brand of sex humour was back with a vengeance with Cade getting the mick taken out of him for not having sex for a long time and Viviane's family trying to pair her up with a man. As an Englishman it was amusing to see the geographical errors in the film.

The dumbest point in the film was when the US government made a deal with Megatron despite there being four films where the Decepticons being proven to be untrustworthy. They were pointless for most of the film anyway and could have been written out without much trouble. It was also a film that didn't care about the continuity of the series like having Bumblebee being on Earth since World War Two and fighting the Nazis when in the original film he was a scout sent to Earth.

There were some things I liked. The opening battle scene was fun and it looked like Bay was put in charge of a Ridley Scott style epic and it was good to see Gemma Chan get a major role in Hollywood film.

It is a paradox: On the one hand, the plot is as dumb as it could be. On the other hand, it is as complicated as a Lynch movie or a Kafka novel. There may be some issues with the script...

This movie had some good ideas thrown in it. Like including unicron But it doesn't go anywhere. This movie is way to rushed and fast paced everything happens way to fast which doesn't let the Audience have a breather to process what's going on. When people say that transformers movies are 98% nonstop action scenes and explosions. Well I can definitely say that is true for this one. I think they were trying to establish plot but then they were like "screw plot, more explosions, explosions, EXPLOSIONS!!!!!" I'm a big transformers fan and felt insulted by this movie. At this point They didn't even care anymore. You'd think that Michael bay would listen to the criticism about transformers 4. Just like he did with transformers 2, and make some improvements for the nest instalment. But of coarse he didn't he made it worse. He was like "stop bullying me I put a lot of effort into this movie, by that I mean explosions" now that I think about it, I think he made transformers 5 bad on purpose.

A needlessly long and pointless film. This movie could have been cut down to about 45 min and still may have been too long. The plot is very thin and the writing is worse. Half the time the fighting sequences don't even make sense. At one point, people and autobots switched which side they were fighting, multiple times in one sequence. The forced love interest story was too obvious and did not work as there was really no chemistry between them. Really disappointed in this installment. Honestly, I should not have expected much, as these movies are generally okay and just mindless entertainment. This one forgot the later part of that and just stuck with the former. Mindless.

This movie has only one positives, the great visual effects. And that is everything, nothing else, no story, no excitement, bad movie. It is a waste of time, seriously. Unbelievable boring, from the first second, to the last one. I've seen all Transformers, and apart the first one, the rest were becoming worst and worst. Hopefully the Transformers series ends here. At least from Michael Bay.

Mr. Bay, you are a very skilled filmmaker. I remember enjoying The Rock quite a bit and the fact that you can consistently get the resources to make big action movies is something to be admired. I know you've been in the business of making movies since I was a teenager, so maybe it's not my place to judge you. However, I see you making the same mistakes over and over again. And they're all rather rookie mistakes. Here are three simple tips that could greatly improve your output.

Wide Shots are your Friends

You seem to love your upclose shots of people and things frequently employing Dutch angles and other various tricks. It makes a shot look cool, but it also fails to give the audience any clear idea of the environment around the characters or where characters are in relation to each other. This is especially crucial in action scenes. Please employ at least one wide shot for every change of scene no matter how minor.

2) Use Long Takes

This is sometimes criticized as a film school thing. In movies like Specter where the beginning was one long shot throughout a Day of the Dead celebration. It looked cool but was unnecessary. Then you also have the beginning of Serenity where a long shot is employed to introduce the crew of the ship while also giving the audience the sense of the ship. I'm not asking nearly that much of you, but it's rare when a character says two sentences on the same shot in this film. Almost every sentence has a cut before the next, even when it's the same character talking. This is unnecessary.

3) Edit Your Scenes Properly

You cut action scenes like actions scenes. So you're fine there on editing. However, you also cut character moments as action scenes. You cut exposition dumps as action scenes. When you literally cut everything as an action scene, the movie becomes exhausting to watch. Not only that, when you go to an action scene, it doesn't stand out because it's cut like every other scene in the movie. The audience becomes desensitized to it. So those cool moments you do have stand out so much less.

There's more, but those are the big ones. Follow these simple steps with ALL your movies and there will undoubtable be an improvement and maybe you can even get a Transformers film scored fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. At the very least, not as rotten as the past few. I know this is your last one, but let's face it you've said that before.

What exactly was that? That movie just made no sense what so ever. I went in with absolutely zero expectations, I rate Bay as highly as I do JJ which is to say I don't; and still this movie was a disappointment from start to finish. With subject matter that should be good; an obviously large budget; this should have been a simple home run. This didn't even strike out, they cancelled the game and bulldozed the stadium, that's how bad this movie is. If you haven't seen it, don't. If you still think you want to see it, make sure you don't pay to see it!

This is unquestionably the worst of this franchise so far, an absolute horror show that reeked of shameless money-grubbing. It appears as if the producers were so desperate to capitalise on the film's popularity that they conjured up confounding conflicts out of thin air and devised situations that were littered with cliches and loopholes.

Truth be told, none of it worked for me; I didn't care about any of the characters. Even the Transformers appeared purposeless and deprived of motivation. There are some excellent visuals, and the creative team deserves some credit, but that's about it!

Can someone please remove this from existence? I wish I hadn't stumbled upon it.

Through my better judgement I have kept going with this absolute pile of garbage franchise (Bumblebee aside), but this was the first time I was actually bored watching a Transformers film. It was all more of the same, but I just felt that there was no jeopardy. You can tell that the mainstays, heroes and villains, were never going to be killed off. And a short turn to the dark side for one character, never for a second looked to be permanent. Another gripe I have about the film is that it's meant to be a family franchise, but I lost count of the amount of times the word 's*' was used. Yes once or twice, but every scene seemed to have it in. Maybe I'm getting a bit more sensitive about this stuff as I'm about to become a parent, but f me there was a lot of swearing! The worst thing about it though, is that as bad as it was, I'll still watch another instalment if for some stupid reason they make it. My advice to Hollywood is save me from this nightmare and concentrate on a sequel of sorts to Bumblebee. A far superior film.

I only hold a "'1 ***** (for the worst movie ever, " "AI" 2001.). OMG....

This Transformer was truly awful! Why would mark W sign on for such cr*p! My gosh, it was painful to sit through! Do not v waste any of your precious time on this piece of doggy doo. Go walk your dog or your cat!