I cannot wait for Michael Bay to leave this franchise. With each movie that came and went, my childhood memories of Transformers kept getting diminished. That's no way to treat nostalgia.
Transformers: The Last Knight, granted felt like the biggest out of the franchise, still was as incoherent as anything that have came before; if not even more. Personally, this was the worst.
I'm not even going to do my usual review, but I'm just going to list down all the problems I can think of.
I'll start with the age-old issue of the human factor, which probably was highlighted since the very first movie. We the audience do not care about the human's action sequences in a movie that is titled Transformers. Why does Bay keep focusing on the humans when he can do so much more slick fight scenes with the Transformers?
Why did Grimlock just pop up whenever he like?
Why are we getting baby Dinobots? What happened to the rest from the previous movie? Do baby Dinobots grow then?
Why couldn't we get new Transformers that are from the cartoons? I mean, Canopy??
Why are the flying machines from TRF shaped like Tie Fighters?
Why would Optimus Prime say he was welcome on Earth and yet a Transfomrers-hunting, government-funded delta team called TRF was setup?
Why did Megatron break out some of the Decepticons that are never from the first generation cartoon series, and were useless and destroyed almost as quickly as they were introduced? Why go through that trouble?
Why would Megatron negotiate with the humans?
Why were the humans an actual force when we are dealing with transforming alien robots?
Why did the cameras keep focusing on the humans and not the Transformers? Oh, wait, I did this one already.
Why did Optimus Prime say he will go on ahead and have the humans follow him, and then he disappears for the next 20 minutes?
Why were those ancient Transformers knights so petty and proceeded to punish Prime when they should have gone after Megatron to retrieve the staff?
What happened to those ancient Transformers knights at the end?
Why was the maker of the Transformers so weak?
How did Prime expect to bring back Cybertron?
How many times did Prime had to say "I am Optimus Prime" before we get to see the credits roll?
Why was the girl 14 years old and yet she knew how to repair Transformers? And why couldn't she tie her hair up properly?
Why were there suddenly more Decepticons in the third act? And why were the humans again not swatted like insects?
Why was the cast of TV series "Strangers Things" brought in for the beginning of the movie?
What's with the three-headed dragon?
Why did some of the one-liners sound like they were taken from other movies? Like Star Wars: The Force Awakens' "It's true, all of it", and "It's a tomb" which I believe was also just spoken by Tom Cruise in The Mummy. Also, the TIE Fighter as mentioned before, and X-Men's names "Cyclops" and "Sentinels" been used.
And to cap it all off, I couldn't understand what I was watching in the final act because it was just things moving across the screens and no idea what kind of consequences they would cause.
The only thing that was slightly amusing was Anthony Hopkins' character that was quite different from what I'm used to seeing him in.
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