A review on Transformers: The Last Knight

Finally, the Transformers movie has continued with their latest series which is without being oblivion about it, The Last Knight. The box-office was released starting on 20th June with USA marked as the first country to have the science fiction/thriller film on screen followed by other countries onward. A little preview in sentences that I shamelessly steal from google because why not make full use of the 'copy & paste' tool.

Humans are at war with the Transformers, and Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Now it's up too the unlikely alliance of inventor Cade Yeager, Bumblebee, an English lord and an Oxford professor to save the world.

I have never done a review on a film before, exclusive case of doing a critic among my peers after we watched a movie together in a group. This time I just had the urge to do it because of how disappointed I am with the whole plot. From their tagline "Rethink your heroes", Michael Bay might want to "Rethink his idea". I thought this fifth movie was supposed to tell us the origin of Optimus Prime as judging from the trailer, we were thought of meeting his Creator that he has been searching from the first movie until the previous film-series, Age of Extinction (Year of release: 2014).

Okay let's start - The Damn Plot.

The first 30 minutes is confusing, out of place & relatively unnecessary. They just showed us new characters and their origin with some fast-pace dialogue that I couldn't pick it up to make a piece of puzzle from it. They left you stranded while trying to understand what's going on with the awful storyline with a hilarious robotic maid, Cogman, which were never mentioned of its history previously. I have to admit Cogman really cracks me up but with that being said, it's like Cogman was there to cover the whole crazy-untangled storyline. 

  It only start making sense when Cade Yeager met with an Oxford professor, Viviane, which revealed as the last descendant of Merlin (the one who kept the staff). The only characters that continued from the series are Cade Yeager, Simmons (former agent of Sector 7), Lennox (the NEST army from Transformers) and few minor character. Simmons contributed nothing except for guiding them to unfold another what-the-actual-hell fact- Earth was called Unicron, an "ancient enemy" of Cybertron. That escalated way too far.

  The way they arranged the scene is quite flipped & too short. Like they are a lot of things that were never explained throughout the plot. They created it & unfortunately didn't end it beautifully. Half of the characters didn't even contribute to help solve the problem. It was there but poorly elaborated. You can only take a deep breath when the movie comes to their last hour, the moment Optimus had a battle with Bumblebee.

But admit it, Transformers' CGI is dope from the very beginning. Never fail to amaze us with all the shot they took, the sound systems is amazing as before. I really like the details where they included the original soundtracks of Transformers, it brings the old feeling you got when you watched their first series. I honestly at awe when I catch that sound (they usually played it during climax, intertwine decision). Kudos to the Director of Music for keeping the originality. For someone who has been keeping up with these series & listened to it several times, it still gives me goosebumps. It adds the value of mix feeling you have after all the battles.

  Production value is a hundred. It is an amazing movie if you like actions, crashing stuff, explosive, robotic & etc.Yes I would recommend it for you to watch it. Sadly, the plot is off track. 1/10. I actually gives 4 points to Cogman for existing cause hell yeah he is damn funny. And 1.5, because Bumblebee finally get his voice back, which to think of it again, it's quite late. Only in the fifth film he get his voice back? Like seriously?

My humble rating for this film: 6.5/10

That's all and thank you for reading my review.

NOTE: The author is neither a critic nor a writer. This whole review was written to express her humble opinion on her favourite film-series. With all respect, if you are a movie-goer you might want to see it for yourself since the author's opinion is just a form of feedback. Nothing more.