Transformers: The Last Knight Review

Watching this is like being handed the pieces of four different films at once. Transformers fought alongside King Arthur. A talisman chooses a bearer. Cybertron is arriving to consume Earth. There is a secret order of humans that has protected the robots for centuries, a submarine, a Nazi flashback and a plan to drain the planet's core, and none of these threads resolves the others. The aspect ratio switches between shots inside single scenes, which was a consequence of mixing camera formats and which the edit does nothing to hide.

Anthony Hopkins is having a wonderful time as an eccentric lord with a homicidal robot butler and is the only person on screen who looks like he is enjoying anything. Mark Wahlberg is playing a character with no remaining purpose. The Chicago and English set pieces are the same grey collisions the series has offered since 2007. It lost money, Bay left, and the franchise had to restart. The correct ending.