Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Mark V — 27 Nov 2017

From the first Transformers movie in 2007 to 10 years later of action packed movies it makes a return to the big screen as the director Michael Bay comes back stronger than ever with his latest film Transformers: The Last Knight. We see all sorts of familiar faces from the last film Transformers: Age of Extinction and beyond. As well as being introduced to a few new faces.

The plot of the movie is based the medieval days with the nights of the round table. Optimus Prime leader of the Autobots has left earth in search of his creator to destroy whoever it was that put the bounty out for all Autobots and Decepticons to be destroyed. Cade Yeager is the main character that was in the previous movie is back again helping to protect the Autobots. It turns out that he possesses a certain robotic talisman that makes him a knight of the Transformers order. It is up to him to help save the earth from the creator who is determined to destroy the earth and anything that stands in the way.

My thoughts on the movie where I felt like Michael Bay did a great job with this movie. I really enjoyed the movie from start to finish. I am more of an explosion action type of movie person, so this film was for me. I was not into the whole love dramatic boy meets girl falls in love type of thing in the first three movies of transformers. Don't get me wrong they were well scripted movies with plenty of action fighting robot scenes.

With the first scene starting off with war between two groups it had a ton of action in it as people are fighting for their lives with fireballs being launched and smashing into human warriors, it draws my attention right away. There was never a dull moment in this film as the flash back is over it continues with more action as humans are going around the city that is in ruins from the previous destruction that was caused. They are trying to destroy every Autobot or Decepticon they see. Cade Yeager being the hero he is shows up guns blazing to save these kids from cross fire as well as trying to help protect and Autobot.

Even though the movie does not really follow the original comic books at all there were a few things that really stood out in this movie that I thought were really cool. The opening scene helps tie in the whole movie well on how they show the history of the knights. It was a change of scenery into a different time than just the early days of life from the last movies, it brought more history and excitement into the movie that hooks the viewers. This movie threw a major curve ball with more female roles who actually make a difference in this movie, as well as making a female actor the actual hero which was amazing. It takes away from the whole damsel in destress and the typical movie plot, making the movie that much better.

There were a few negative parts to the movie that weren't that major but could have made this movie a little more enjoyable. I didn't like how there were few fight scenes of the legendary warriors. They are supposed to be these badass Robots but don't have much role in this movie let alone they only show the T-Rex and not the rest, but with the exception of smaller versions of themselves. It is hard to even know how powerful these new and legendary worriers are when we don't even see them used to their full potential in fight scenes. I also felt they could have utilized the dragon robot a bit more it was the same as the legendary warriors having little to do with how much power each possess.

I enjoyed this movie and what Michael Bay did in his vision on what transformers movies should be. The CGI throughout the movie was great. I would definitely recommend this movie to those who like a lot of action and fight scenes. This movie also keeps you hooked in wondering what is going to happen next which is always a plus there are a few hints but not enough to know what exactly will be in the next film. I expect the next film to be even better than this one since Unicron is now awakened.