Reviews

First off, i'm actually a fan of Transformers. I didn't mind Age of Extinction, even with the typically horrendous humour and mess of a plot.

But this...this just took the cake and ate all of it. The Last Knight is the biggest big budget mess i've seen. I was actually looking forward to seeing this after watching the trailer but didn't manage to find it in IMAX; it was taken off unusually quickly. I can now see why! The only reason I gave two stars is that visually, the film delivers. Incredible CGI, something a little too much, but I didn't come away with a headache when it jumped from fight to fight.

Instead I ended up with a massive migraine from the plot. Seriously, who wrote this!? Some staff is the most powerful artifact ever but it's taken 5 films to find it? Earth is in fact Unicron but all the action from the past 4 films doesn't get him going? It's a complete insult when Anthony Hopkin's character (oh how the mighty fall) says a Transformer kills Hitler. What the hell? This film feels like Michael Bay just sticking two fingers up to everyone and going hell for leather. The humour wasn't just bad, it was horrific. Every scene where you thought there might be an essence of seriousness ended up being a Michael Bay tribute of sex jokes, insults and some of the worst writing you will hear in any film, let alone something the size of Transformers.

Megatron is a gang leader, who recruits some of the worst Decepticons you will see across the franchise. Rather than being intimidating, they're like the comedy villains who you end up laughing at. Megatron negotiating to get his pals out of robot prison? Sweet Jesus.

The potentially interesting Nemesis Prime story lasts all of 10 minutes before a few words from Bumblebee turn him back into his insufferable Optimus ego. All interest in Prime goes when he starts rallying his motley crew with just some of the worst dialogue written.

I'm genuinely stunned that Michael Bay has been allowed to continuing ruining Transformers all this time. This does feel like the last one he will ever touch, thankfully. They need to restart this whole franchise, get a decent director and for gods sake write a NORMAL script! You have to see this just to say you have, but just to give you fair warning: The Last Knight is the biggest joke of 2017.

and i've wasted 40 minutes trying to get into this film. It's still playing.

This film is your stereotypical American wins all film. In London.

I couldn't tell you anything I remember regarding a plot in the last 40 minutes, except it's been a god awful cheese fest. It's reminiscent of Independence Day, where the President is the hero and somehow everyone protecting him is borderline indestructible, can defeat armies of terrorists with just a knife and then deliver dialogue that makes your skin crawl.

London is barren in a lot of scenes. One of the most crowded cities in Europe and terrorists can walk freely with guns. There's also no explanation for where the ACTUAL police are unless every single one has defected. We are luckily saved in the scene that's just come on where there are some loyal Brits ready to fight. Praise the lord.

Some really awful lines too - my favourite was when one actress said 'it was a trap' - right after the President has been cornered outside St Paul's Cathedral with only her and a Gerard Butlers character to depend on, terrorists/police have fired at them and bombs have gone off in the city. I'm glad she can piece it all together! This is a really disappointing movie. There isn't much else I can say.

Having never read the Hobbit i've enjoyed each of the films so far. It may lack in some of the detail that was seen in the LOTR films but good fun nonetheless.

I was equally as excited to see the last instalment but unfortunately it just didn't quite live up to the hype.

The first hour was entertaining, really building up to what I and everyone in the cinema thought would be a great climax. Then it just loses it. Battle scene after battle scene where you watch Legolas jump from falling stone to falling stone, a huge Orc army which seemed endless suddenly loses when Thorin makes an entrance and later on, another Orc army which is instantly wiped out by eagles. It was either too elaborate or too quick and the plot vanishes from that point on.

Instead what this films ends up being is a half finished end to the Hobbit trilogy and more focus on how to tie into the Lord of the Rings. Whilst visually it may be stunning, the story just doesn't quite cut it.