My Review of Transformers: The Last Knight · 5:10pm Jun 21st, 2020
Rating Scale:
12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it
7/10—a fun and entertaining movie; not great but still enjoyable
6/10—a slightly above average film; might not watch it again but still happy I watched it for the first time
5/10—mediocre movie; not awful but not great either
4/10—a below average film; it could have been much better
3/10—a bad film; poorly written and poorly executed
2/10—a very bad movie; the few good things in the movie overshadowed by the bad things
1/10—a terrible movie; a total waste of time
0/10—a worthless piece of abomination; should have never been made
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Hey there, folks. Here is my review for... ugh... Transformers: The Last Knight. After watching the fourth movie back in the summer of 2018, I unfortunately discovered this movie’s existence on YouTube. So I watched this film online. I immediately hated it right off the bat. I watched this filthy trash only once. It is THAT terrible. There is literally nothing good to say about this rancid diarrhea, so let’s rip this apart slowly and painfully.
1). The movie begins with soldiers battling during the Medieval Times... what?! Only two minutes into the movie and I’m already confused. I legit thought I was watching the wrong movie. WHY IS THE MOVIE STARTING WITH MEDIEVAL TIMES?!? Then there was the narration by Sir Anthony Hopkins that the Transformers existed on earth during that time as well. By the Allspark, how many times will this mess of a franchise continually retcon its own universe?! What do the English knights have anything to do with Transformers?! WHY ARE WE GOING THROUGH THIS CONFUSING ROUTE?!?
2). Then you have the... Staff of Merlin... who was a drunkard... 
This red knight gave him the staff to protect it from a “great evil” that shall seek to take it for its evil intentions. Firstly, why do we need a different McGuffin in every single movie?
•Find the Allspark
•Find the Matrix
•Retrieve the Pillars
•Protect the Seed
•Now the Staff of Merlin??
Secondly, why entrust this powerful artifact to a drunken imbecile? Why can’t YOU protect the Staff? You’re a powerful Cybertronian Knight, so why exactly entrust it to a human being you just met? That’s just stupid.
3). It has been a few years since the events of the last movie, and people are still scared of the Transformers. Yeah, no kidding, they can’t tell the difference between the bad guys and the good guys, the robots have no regard for collateral damage or human property, and the other Transformers couldn’t think of a better way to land safety on earth. So, can you really blame them?
4). The CGI looks horrible as ever.
5). Not one soundtrack made me love this movie. It is below average like never before.
6). Some of the Transformers look like literal junkyards such as Daytrader and Canopy. That says a lot about this film.
7). The human characters are boring; the dialogue is the most painful and cringey type I’ve ever heard in a Transformers movie. All the cliches and stereotypes just went out of control.
8). Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs are still the same one-dimensional morons from the last movie. Honestly, every time they appear on screen, they ruin the film with their annoying personalities. Also, Bumblebee becomes even more immature and ridiculous. I don’t know if it’s because he lost his best friend Sam (I hope he was killed off) or whatever but his behavior is just inexcusable.
9). Cogman was extremely irritating to watch. Where did this little psychopath come from?! No, not Cybertron, where exactly did he come from?! WHY IS HE HERE?!!
10). The humor was so forced and downright unfunny. Not once did I laugh.
11). The plot makes absolutely no sense. When Hopkins revealed all the pictures of the Transformers during WWll, I was like, “Huh?! What?! Optimus was there?! Ironhide was there... in his EARTH MODE?! HOW?!? Why is Hot Rod in his Lamborghini mode during the 1940s?! WHAT IS GOING ON?!” That flash back scene makes no sense either. How is it that Bumblebee and Hot Rod roamed around during the 1940s/WWll and yet arrive on earth in search of the Allspark in a different timeline?! The Transformers have been here for many years even before they were concerned about the Allspark? Didn’t they arrive on earth to only look for the Allspark?? Ughhh... I hate this movie.
12). Megatron was bland and boring in this movie. It was hard to tell him apart from the Knights since they all had similar designs. This is the ONE time where I couldn’t tell who was who. Is this Megatron or one of the Knights? While I’m glad Frank Welker voiced him and that Megatron has his iconic fusion cannon, I still hated his design. His face looked too humanoid.
13). While I somewhat liked Nitro Zeus, the other Decepticons are absolutely nothing to me. Mohawk is an annoying racist stereotype, Onslaught needs a bigger role not door, Dreadbot is a copycat of Crowbar, Berserker is a ripoff of Crankcase (who both look like the Predator), and Barricade looked hideous. Most of them were killed off so easily without giving them personality and screen time.
14). Why was Starscream’s head in Buffalo, NY? How was his head even repaired despite it being blown to pieces in the third movie?
15). How was Megatron no longer Galvatron? Did Quintessa restore him back to his real identity? Did he himself upgrade his power because he was disgusted by the fact he was rebuilt by humans? HOW IS HE MEGATRON AGAIN?!
16). Why would Megatron even make a deal with TRF anyway? He is the freaking Decepticon overlord for crying out loud! He should’ve just interrogated Lennox and his team as to the whereabouts of his henchmen, broken into their facility, killed the guards, and then set his troops free! Making a deal with humans to release his crew is beyond stupid and out of character for him. END OF DISCUSSION!!
17). Also, Quintessa is one of the lamest villains I’ve ever watched in this franchise. She had good motivations, but her existence and characterization makes no sense. She is the Prime of Life? I thought it was the Allspark?! Why does she have a hatred for the humans? What turned her against the ideology that freedom is the right of all sentient beings? She’s basically a mixture of The Fallen and Sentinel Prime with no originality.
18). EARTH IS UNICRON?!? WHAT?! So now, this movie is ripping off from Transformers: Prime and making him as earth despite the fact he was never established as such in the previous films. So you mean to tell me that when the Creators cyberformed earth, they were cyberforming Unicron? So the Cybertronians are actually made out of Unicron? So when Sentinel wanted to rebuild Cybertron, he wanted to use earth’s resources... Unicron’s resources. Is this why the Decepticons even The Fallen wanted to destroy earth? Because it’s Unicron? THIS IS SO STUPID!!!
19). Vivian is just Megan Fox in British form. Moving on...
20). That little girl was just... an annoying little twat. She did nothing of significance in the whole film. Just take her out, and it wouldn’t affect the story in any way.
21). Useless Easter eggs such as the Ark on the moon. Yeah, nice try, movie. I still hate you.
22). Why would the TRF imprison those Decepticons but kill off every other Transformer? They killed Canopy (a useless character anyway) without hesitation, but the Decepticons? Nah, just arrest them. Because why not?!
23). The third movie showed us half of Cybertron being sucked into oblivion. Here, it is shown as being broken apart and still existing. HOW EXACTLY IS THAT POSSIBLE? Did Quintessa rebuild it with her own powers? If that’s the case, WHY ISN'T SHE RESTORING THE PLANET WITH LIFE?? She IS the Prime of Life, right?? So, why is she wasting her time in trying to drain the life force from earth to restore her home if she could’ve just used her magical life-restoring powers to resurrect Cybertron?!
24). Cade turned into Sam Witwickey in this movie. “Oh yeah? You want to get punched in the face really hard?” Did... did he just threatened to punch a child in the face?? OUR HERO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!! 
25). The worst part of the whole movie...(inhales dramatically)... THE WHOLE NEMESIS PRIME HYPE!!! Optimus Prime gets only 11 minutes of screen time, acts disrespectfully before a goddess whereas there was no evidence that she destroyed their home, threatens to kill her for no reason, gets bitchslapped into mind control, turns into Nemesis Prime for only four minutes, briefly fights Bumblebee, hears Bumblebee’s voice again, and magically returns back to normal. He did nothing as Nemesis Prime. He killed two Knights and that’s it. Instead of focusing on Optimus and his decent to darkness and giving him full screen time as Nemesis Prime, they did this to us. The trailers hyped him to be the big deal, but the actual movie barely focused on him. How disappointing... just like the Grogar twist was.
26). Once again, Bumblebee is able to talk again with no explanation. How did that voice magically restore Optimus to normalcy? On a side note, Optimus hasn’t heard it since Cybertron fell? Didn’t you hear his voice at the end of the first movie? No, don’t tell me it was his radio, because there was no radio static when he spoke. That’s why Sam asked, “You speak now?”
27). The ending was anticlimactic and below average. It was so boring and insignificant.
28). The cliffhanger doesn’t mean a thing to me. I just hope they don’t make a sequel after this.
This was the most lackluster Transformers film I’ve ever watched in my entire life. This is the worst one ever. I rate this piece of shit a 0/10. Abominable and insipid. No wonder it lost around 100 million dollars and bombed at the box office. Good riddance to this trash pile.
In conclusion, the Bayverse is a mixture of good and bad food. For me, the good food to digest are the first and third movies. The rest of the films are unhealthy, processed junk food that would make you vomit.
But hey, the Bayverse is thankfully over! No more Bayverse!! It’s time to have good Transformers movies from people who actually care about the franchise AND the fans. Speaking of which, I have three Transformers movie reviews coming up: Transformers the Movie (1986), Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising , and Bumblebee! Stay tuned, friends! Any thoughts?
Peace.
Wow. That bad?
Bravo! You've managed to create the most comprehensive and well put together review of this pile of trash after the one made by Bobsheaux!
Are you going to do the Bumblebee Movie next?
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That will be the last one. The next one is the 1986 film.
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Yes... that bad.
5289968
Aww, thank you!
Yay someone agrees with me.
P.S.: You should mention how Grimlock was no longer a prominent character and was reduced to being Kade's dog.
5289981
Wow. How about we talk about something else?
5289987
Ughh... don’t remind me... my poor brain.
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Talk about how awesome the 1986 film was? YES!!
5289994
Actually, I'm hoping to avoid that. Last thing you want is to spoil anything. But I could use some feedback on my Bio. Be honest, is it too accurate?
5289998
Try not to comment anything irrelevant to this blog. This is Transformers related. If you want to talk of something else, go to my user page. Ask that again on my user page.
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Got ya. Would that include you MLP/Transformers Animated story? Cause I might have a way for Soundwave to be useful.
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Thank you. And yes, that too.
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Okay.
The whole "transformers in medieval times/WW2" bit felt like it messed up the impact of them arriving on earth in the first movie.
I didn't mind the ancient Primes being on earth before in the second movie but the stuff in this movie felt like it goof things up.