What happens when a Spielkind director stays in a sandbox longer than originally planned? In the case of Michael Bay and the “Transformers” franchise, the answer is: he is spinning the reels in the fifth part! Let yourself be amazed – today on TV!
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Michael Bay and the “Transformers” brand: a long-term bond that really shouldn’t exist. Bay usually praises himself for providing as much tactile spectacle as possible in his brute noise films and using digital tricks only in a subordinate role. That someone like that would agree to make films about countless computer-animated characters is irritatingly strange. Additionally, Bay said he initially found the premise of “Transformers” world filled with alien robots posing as Earth devices totally childish. Bay had to be persuaded to direct the first ‘Transformers’ film.
While it’s not a consensual judgment, I think you can tell. The film is dull and listless in a way devastation cracked cinema should never be. But Bay seems to have tasted blood in the process, eventually introducing four more Transformers films of varying quality. While the second part is about pure agony, the fifth part is strange in a way that should be experienced. About Today on Free TV: Sat.1 will air “Transformers: The Last Knight” this Sunday, November 13, 2022, from 8.15pm.
“Transformers: The Last Knight” – An action-packed assault on sci-fi madness
Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, discovers that his homeland of Cybertron has been destroyed and an age-old artifact is needed to restore it to its pristine state. Said artifact was hidden on Earth in the time of King Arthur (Liam Garrigan). It is implied that he will die if the artifact is used to save Cybertron. Therefore, the inventor Cade Yaeger (Mark Wahlberg), the transformer Bumblebee, the Englishman Lord Edmund Burton (Anthony Hopkins), the history professor Vivien Wembley (Laura Haddock) and the young rebel Izabella (Isabella Merced) have to do everything for the end of the earth to avert…
Stanley Tucci as a drunken and sour Merlin. Huge robots that aid the Knights of the Round Table in a crucial battle. A flashback showing how mechanical aliens helped the Allies defeat the Nazis. A living planet with an awkward personality. Screen legend Anthony Hopkins, who in the role of an eccentric scholar behaves exactly as unpredictable and cheerful as he otherwise only appears in his viral social media clips.
And then Hopkins has a robot butler named Cogman, who is superficially polite but repeatedly exhibits sociopathic traits and acts like a slob in traffic. All while singing rap classics. Young star Isabella Merced, on the other hand, clambers through the ruins with amazed eyes and a cheeky muzzle, as if she were the heroine of some long-lost 1980s Amblin family movie, including a super cute robo helper. Only their paths cross with a tongue-in-cheek Mark Wahlberg, who acts as if he’s stumbled off the set of a Daddy’s Home sequel.
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He next travels to a hidden spaceship in a creaky submarine with a history teacher played by Laura Haddock, whose family is worried about his sex life. Does it look messy? Oh, get ready, because the whole thing is captured in four different, ever-changing aspect ratios. In short: Transformers: The Last Knight is not a movie to watch while having a headache. Or when you’re in the mood for subtlety, coherence and logic.
So why is this a “TV tip” for Michael Bay’s latest “Transformers” film, not a “TV warning”? Because this sci-fi chaotic action, unlike, for example, the monotonously loud “Transformers 2 – Revenge of the Fallen”, is fun! For my sake could have used even more excess! But also in the form presented It’s insanely weird to see Michael Bay in the “Transformers” sandbox and cause a thrilling martial commotion with an “It doesn’t matter!” attitude.
Whether it’s the grinning mythology drifting into self-parody around the Autobots, who always ramble pathetically and are pregnant with meaning. Or the facial expressions of Mark Wahlberg, who constantly strike a balance between confusion and enthusiasm. Or keep the crazy Hopkins/Cogman duo with their quick bout of caffeine shock humor: Knowing she’s stretched her time in the Transformers universe, Bay celebrates her lap of honor with lavish megalomania.
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The action content that is thrown out of the fence is completely flimsy, which sadly doesn’t help the suspense curve. Nevertheless the glossy destruction is staged in such a manic and surprising way that it is still a respectable experience.
“Transformers: The Last Knight” eerily sums up the storm of changing image formats: the individual images are impressive, but in combination they are inharmonious. Not so much that it will be great again. But the tangle shown in this mess is evident enough to be remembered in an unexpectedly positive way – with some headaches and stomachaches.
Bay was unquestionably better, but also repeatedly worse, so my advice is: Open a packet of nacho chips, bake them with the cheese in the oven, and munch on the result in batches as the excess of Bay drifts into completely insane spheres in between. It won’t be a healthy night for your brain and cholesterol levels, but it will also be sinfully enjoyable.
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