With unfathomable amounts of money thrown at the screen, and Bay delivering intelligible action for the first time since the original, The Last Knight is a so-bad-it's-good achievement that will have us quoting "Cogman," Anthony Hopkins' robot butler, for the end of time - or at least until the next installment. ![]() Every idea is thrown at the screen as Bay his army of writers tether the "mythos" of the series to King Arthur's medieval quests, WWII Nazi hunting, a secret society of Autobot protectors (prime for spinoffs!), and pop culture references of the moment - ouroboros is Transformers ripping off the ripped off Stranger Things. Considering all of this, we recommend The Last Knight, an IMAX-sized experiment in nonsense. The movies egregiously clock in over two-and-a-half hours and disavow human behavior for action cliché, military porn, and Bay's least coherent instincts. Why it’s great: Since Bay's 2008 Transformers, a Spielberg-inspired, boy-and-his-car adventure starring Shia LaBeouf and 8 bazillion CG pixels, the robotic franchise has devolved into a monotone string of horn-blaring, metal-ripping, problematic pieces of blockbuster blah (to put it. Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner
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