Transformers: The Last Knight — Metal pumpers are here again

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins

Rated: 6.5/10

Here comes a high-octane, iron cluttered robot orgy which will ride the crest of popularity y the unabridged power of its franchise. It’s the big movie of the week, what with none other being of any worth, or even coherence.

Transformers, The Last knight, the fifth one in a row from veteran director Micheal Bay’s fantasia world of shape changing sleek cars, coming after three-year break, has all the trappings of a machine film drawing its mirth from the lovable Autobots and the baddie Decepticons.

Of course, the red and blue Optimus is there in all his glory, once he emerges from the spell of the Decepticon queen trying to kill planet Earth once and for all. He is cool, he is friendly, he is powerful and he is engaging, much like the other editions.

This time the action goes back into the crusader days of English history what with knights and their swords, and Autobot knights and their swords, saving mother earth and humanity with a commitment that’s rare in today’s world.

Now one particular sword is what the Deception queen stationed in the stratosphere just above Earth, ready to attack, is looking for as that will give her band the ultimate weapon to kill humanity as we know it.

As the action builds up and the endearing Bumble Bee and his band of transformers get going with their antics in a far off garage somewhere in the wild west of America, the tone is set for the upcoming battle which makes a whole lot of noise, but sense too, with the clanking iron both on Earth and outside of it.

Embedded in all this machine porn is also a human romance which counterfoils the scene with subtle and humorous emotion between an American renegade and an English beauty.

Transformers, The Last Knight is purely for the loyalists, the fast-lane, metal pumping fans who love Optimus and indulge in Bumble Bee. For the rest, it is too much of clutter. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 2 June, 2017