I remember a time when I actually liked the Transformers movies.
The first one (2007) wasn’t bad – a good, solid action flick with plenty of humor thrown into the mix.
And even the second one (2009) was alright, though I never really cared for the name.
From there, though, is where I feel like this franchise started to go downhill – first with Megan Fox’s replacement in #3, and then with Shia LaBeouf being randomly bumped for Mark Wahlberg in #4.
Just to be absolutely, 100% clear without equivocation – Transformers 5 is a raging dumpster fire that should make every last person who appeared in the credits ashamed, as well as everyone who went to see it in the theater, and oh hell, pretty much everyone who spent their 2 hrs 34 min to watch it EVER.
Spoiler #1 – Marky Mark is “The Last Knight.” Because why have some awesome, giant robot fill that roll when … Mark Wahlberg is around?
Spoiler #2 – He’s every bit as awful as he was in Transformers 4.
I don’t even know what to say about these movies anymore. Continuity is garbage, seeing Wahlberg written as a cooler star than Optimus Freaking Prime is just mind blowing, and the plot reads like somebody just throwing darts at a board, and then remembering that they promised a role to XYZ actor every 30 minutes or so and just penciling them in wherever.
Every time the name Cade Yeager is spoken out loud makes me want to punch an Autobot in the face.
The idea that apparently every historical event ever was won only because of the Transformers reads like a Hasbro wet dream.
Megatron negotiating with lawyers is … not what I want to see a 40-foot evil robot doing in a movie, ever.
Oh yeah, and P.S. This plot about bringing Cybertron to Earth already fucking happened once in Transformers 3!!! But I guess while they needed to teleport the planet back in 2011, now it’s cool for them to just drive it across the universe like a planet-sized taxi cab?!
Also also – drones???
You have 40-foot tall fighting robots – why do you also need drones?!
*sigh*
So yeah, the movie is garbage … even moreso than the last one was, and yet it will probably be less garbage than Transformers 6 whenever that comes out, because when it comes to Hollywood, dumpster fires are almost impossible to put out.