Transformers: The Last Knight
I liked this one. For what it was, it was entertaining.
What is it about the odd numbered ones in this franchise that are my favorite?
The first Transformers movie was OK. The Third one was my favorite (Which is not saying much). This fifth and last one is up there with the third one.
Like the third one, it was an excellent use of CGI to do the action scenes. Transformers was one of the first movies that I’ve seen in which they did CGI scenes in the day time, and it looked really good. You can see that director Michael Bay has hit his peak in really making the CGI action interact well with the live action footage.
Like the original movie, The Last Knight is an ensemble cast that revolves around the main character. It’s not the best ensemble cast I’ve seen. Josh Duhamel, who had been in the series longer than Wahlberg felt like a strange insert done for pure nostalgia, but if you are into the Franchise or Transformers in general the ensemble cast gives you that fandom.
Speaking of Wahlberg, his Cade Yeager is a much better character than Shia LaBeouf’s, Sam Witwicky. I like the way Cade gets into the action more than Sam trying to get away from it. It makes for better interaction between the live action and CGI. Bay treats Wahlberg like a walking action figure.
It is weird how little action is actually in this movie. You have a few giant battles leading up to the epic one at the end, and in-between it’s Micheal Bay pretending to be the filmmaker he’s not, with funny scenes that are not really funny and his attempts to poke fun at romance scenes in films only made his film stupid. Stick to the slick action and crap blowing up Bay.
The action was also very very superficial. I made the mistake of seeing this twice, cause the first time I like it and thought it would be descent to see again. The first and only time I seen one of these things twice. It’s not my fav franchise. The second time around I just saw how little substance the action has to it.
Overall, I enjoyed the film. Not one of my favorite franchises but I did like this one. It’s like watching a live action cartoon, but that’s all the Transformers movies isn’t it? Thought this one seems to be the best cartoon out of them all.
OK
