Newest Transformers movie out Wednesday – and Optimus Prime looks like a villain

Transformers: The Last Knight is in theaters now.

Mark Wahlberg confirmed that Transformers: The Last Knight will be his last film in the franchise at a friends and family charity screening of the movie Monday night in Foxborough. Twitter erupted in groans and complaints yesterday as people began to realize that the placement of the red carpet made it rather hard for the average citizen to enjoy the spectacle.

When the first film arrived it was a classic Michael Bay film. It packs in the regular combination of as many Transformers marketing opportunities as possible and some of the biggest stomp-on-a-city action sequences as we’re likely to see until Pacific Rim 2 shows up in early 2018. But if the first film out the gate from the new brain-trust is any indication of what is to come, then it’s sadly a case of too many cooks. JJ [Abrams] told me, ‘You’re the only guy that could do this.’ But it’s time to move on.

We know we shouldn’t let negative reviews decide whether we watch a film or not. A look on online review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reveals an nearly unbroken chain of green “Rotten” splats for his directorial efforts – and his work as a producer doesn’t fare any better.

Michael Bay returns to direct the fifth “Transformers” movie since 2007 from a script written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Ken Nolan.

“There is something about the intensity of those battles that we shoot that you can not find anywhere else”.

Yes, the film runs waaay long once again at two and a half hours, but it’s far less painful to get through than the prior installments. Bay is good at what he does and Bay is known for what he does, but I don’t quite remember the film where we saw Optimus Prime having a dance off with Bumblebee in Jack Rabbit Slims.

Meanwhile, the U.S. premiere of “The Last Knight” was held June 20, one day before the film’s release. She tells them that “He” is Unicron, a major villain in the Transformers franchise.

This movie is 2-1/2 hours of nothing but non-stop action, excitement, surprises and awesome special effects. Check. It’s all so pandering, I can’t believe audiences can’t see what they’re doing.

Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly opined: “In rare moments, Bay does attempt to inject a little sense and context into the franchise’s frenzied mash of Hasbro-toy kitsch and blockbuster bombast (Decepticons, apparently, eat Da Vinci Codes for breakfast, and something Fast and Furious for lunch)”. Michael Bay himself has directed many of them, but Transformers: The Last Knight should not be enjoyed.