In , the powers that be at Hasbro had grand plans for their Transformers movie franchise: four movies in the next decade. The future of the franchise is in doubt.
Now all hopes are pinned on the spin-off Bumblebee, opening this week. If the Hailee Steinfeld-starring adventure does well, it can be the beginning of a new series.
If not…. A decade on, the metal-morphing SPFX still rocks. Fallen also had some of the best action sequences of any of the Transformers movies. The opening scene in Shanghai with the Demolisher bot, tearing through an industrial facility on a pair of gigantic truck wheels, is still a jaw-dropping spectacle, and the final battle in Egypt, which featured the Devastator Decepticon and his gargantuan vacuum mouth, is like a ballet of robot-on-man violence that is most remarkable for the fact that no one actually died on set while bringing it to life.
Even too offensive for Michael Bay, the characters did not return for Dark of the Moon two years later. Fox said she felt unsafe at points while filming Fallen — which the director mocked her for — and there was also her general discomfort with the way Bay filmed women. The best part of The Last Knight is when we get deep into the backstory of the Order of the Witwiccans the human faction that guards the secret of Earth-bound Transformers and learn that Harriet Tubman was a member.
Laura Haddock has an important role in theory as Oxford professor Vivian Wembley, but a descendent of the wizard Merlin not kidding, the Knights of the Round Table also enter the mythology in T5 should have had far more cool shit to do than just occasionally sass Mark Wahlberg.
There are, of course, small highlights in Last Knight. Impossibly perfect human Gemma Chan provides the voice for the sinister Quintessa. But overall, Last Knight is the most soulless, video-game-esque Transformers movie.
The first movie in the Transformers A. It did a little bit, but as a dedicated Huntington-Whiteley fan, I was able to open my heart enough to let the love in for Dark of the Moon.
Sam Witwicky is a great hero, and his closing chapter in Dark of the Moon was a strong send-off for the character that really made him a household name. And also made him tanner than he will ever be again in his natural life. The important things here are villainous corporate douche, Patrick Dempsey a part he should really play more often , working as a human lackey for the Decepticons; the continued presence of John Turturro as Agent Simmons and Josh Duhamel as now-Colonel Lennox; and some visual effects that are almost impossible to believe.
With LeBeouf on the way out, Fox already gone, and an unclear future for the franchise, the third Transformers could have been a phoned in snoozefest just meant to sling toys. Looking at you, Last Knight. Instead it was just extremely fun, and a pretty great bridge movie between the original iteration of the franchise and its imminent next phase. The director actually had the stones to make Wahlberg into a humble inventor and family man named Cade Yeager, who gets a dormant Optimus Prime up and running in his work shed.
After the events of Dark of the Moon , official human-robot combat partnerships were banned by Congress, making Cade and his daughter outlaws for harboring one in their barn. But of course, an evil corporation is using Transformer parts to make their own weaponized tech, and a Decepticon called Galvatron has his own designs on destroying humanity.
That means Cade has to topple a multinational corporation and an evil robot overlord if he wants to stop the destruction of Earth — all while repairing his relationship with his daughter. Age of Extinction excelled because things felt fun again.
As always, there is an extraordinary fight on a busy roadway that leads to one of the most striking visuals in the franchise, with Lockdown emerging from a smoke cloud , accompanied by a massive Decepticon ship. Telling the most personal story in the series , while also including a ton of Transformers movie action, is the largest reason of why this film works the best out of the six. Out of all of the Michael Bay directed Transformers movies, the closest his series has ever come to setting the same sort of tone that Bumblebee did was with his first Transformers film.
By reintroducing some of the human element that would go missing in the two Sam Witwicky sequels, Transformers: Age of Extinction gave the franchise a new lease on life, as well as room for a new trilogy dealing with an Earth that no longer ignored the presence of Transformers, but in some cases wanted to hunt them down and destroy them for good. Capped off with the addition of Grimlock and other Dinobots into the fray, Transformers: Age of Extinction was more fun than most sequels get to be in a series that spans over three entries.
The third and final film in the Sam Witwicky trilogy, Transformers: Dark of the Moon had a hell of a secret weapon to help tell the story of a race against time between Autobot and Decepticon forces trying to recover an artifact from the moon, in hopes of ending their conflict for good.
This is where the Transformers movies started to depend a bit too much on human historical events and the secret Transformer involvement in such moments. But even when it things started to sag with this third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon did have a show-stopping battle in Chicago , and an impressive turn by Leonard Nimoy as Sentinel Prime. Considering how much of a breath of fresh air Transformers: Age of Extinction felt like, the Transformers movies would find themselves dipping in quality yet again with the fifth film, Transformers: The Last Knight.
For all of the care that was taken in laying down somewhat of a mythos for the Transformers and their lost home of Cybertron in the previous films, Transformers: The Last Knight was the fifth and final Michael Bay directed Transformers film, and one hell of a slap in the face to fans.
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