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The most brutal Transformers reviews

In case you weren't aware, the Transformers franchise is still going.

And while we can look back with fond memories at the first few films that starred Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, the franchise's latest offering, Transformers: The Final Knight is getting ripped to shreds by critics.

The reviews are not kind. Source: Paramount Pictures
The reviews are not kind. Source: Paramount Pictures

Mark Wahlberg reprises his role for the fifth film, but unfortunately that isn't enough to save the flick from also bombing at the box office, with The Final Knight only making $43.5 million (AU$54.5 million) on opening weekend in the US. Yikes.

Reviewers going to town on the movie and writing some pretty brutal critiques.

The Guardian's Wendy Ide started the harsh reviews writing, "I would hazard a guess that Michael Bay would sooner lose his own testicles than hand over the reins of the Transformers franchise ... The plot is a car crash of impenetrable stupidity ... Perhaps you need to be huffing petrol fumes (or whatever it is that the autobots run on) but 149 minutes have rarely felt so interminable."

While Owen Gleiberman from Variety added: "I can only speculate as to why Michael Bay, at a point long past which most producer/directors would have handed off the directorial reins of this series to someone else (hasn’t he — how can I put this? — said all that he has to say?), is still in there, directing this latest installment ... Yet part of what’s exhausting about the Transformers films is that hectic bland wholesomeness — the empty energy that can give you a seizure of antic tedium."

Critics are going to town on the fifth film. Source: Paramount Pictures
Critics are going to town on the fifth film. Source: Paramount Pictures

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Screen Rant writer Sandy Schaefer suggested that director Michael Bay was "out of fresh ideas" when it came to the latest movie saying:

"The Last Knight may feature more shiny, computer-animated Transformers and non-stop spectacle than its predecessors, but Bay seems to be out of fresh ideas for what to do with this franchise, from an action filmmaking perspective ... In terms of the other Michael Bay-directed Transformers movies, The Last Knight is neither the solid popcorn movie that the first and third installments arguably are, nor is it quite as messy and slapdash as the second and fourth chapters (Revenge of the Fallen and Age of Extinction, respectively)."

And in what may be two of the most brutal reviews, The Washington Post reports the movie is "cut like the world’s longest and most tedious trailer, pinballing from scene to scene and rarely spending more than a few seconds on any single shot" while Mashable adds: "I can't remember the last time I felt so little while watching a movie. I wasn't even bored, so much as just dazed, like I'd woken up in someone else's dream. Transformers: The Last Knight isn't a particularly good film – it's overstuffed and incomprehensible, hampered by bizarre narrative choices and inconsistent pacing."

But if you're looking for movie to "make your head hurt" Mike Ryan from Uproxx writes: "It’s like staring at a projected kaleidoscope for two and a half hours and then trying to tell someone about the plot ... I have no proof Transformers: The Last Knight will kill your brain cells, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it does and I’d proceed with caution just in case. But I can say with absolute certainty that after watching, your head will hurt."

Ahh ouch!

If you want to make up your own mind, Transformers: The Last Knight is in cinemas now.

The film is bombing at the box office too. Source: Paramount Pictures
The film is bombing at the box office too. Source: Paramount Pictures

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