I'd actually rate it a 7 but I want to counter-balance all the hate. This film is not worthy of being trashed so badly. It knows what it is and it delivers on that promise entirely. It's a film about robots that turn into cars and planes bashing each other. What more do you want? If the

I'd actually rate it a 7 but I want to counter-balance all the hate. This film is not worthy of being trashed so badly. It knows what it is and it delivers on that promise entirely. It's a film about robots that turn into cars and planes bashing each other. What more do you want? If the premise of King Arthur's victory being due to a giant three-headed alien transformer dragon raining fireballs upon a medieval battlefield does nothing for you, then you aren't this film's target audience. Sorry, goodbye. Go watch something with more of a pedigree.



The one thing I would have changed in this film would have been to have more/bigger/better one-on-one duels in the third act (other than the Optimus/Bumblebee fight, there aren't any drawn-out epic one-on-ones to compare to the climaxes of TF2 and TF3). The big climactic scene is really well-done otherwise, and the humans get a chance to shine in the battle as well, but it still feels like something's missing in the payoff. Other than that, this is definitely not that bad of a film. The budget really shows and the technical aspects really shine (visual effects, sound design and editing, etc). Sir Anthony Hopkins really dives into his performance in a way that classes the whole thing up, and his Transformer butler provides a really fun comic foil. The cast in general was pretty solid, and even if the writing wasn't always up to the challenge of providing them with fun things to say, it's definitely a step up from "Age of Extinction".



The story in general is quite fascinating in how far it goes for broke and, much like previous films in the franchise, there's plenty of ridiculous references to aliens molding/shaping human history, conspiracy theories, secret societies, Stonehenge being the center of a portal, etc. I enjoyed all of this stuff, though, maybe because I'm okay with occasionally turning my brain off to enjoy what I can out of a stupid movie that knows it's stupid and only wants to unabashedly entertain and dazzle with audio/visual magic.



Also, there's apparently a scene after the credits that I missed that is really weird/silly.

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