![]() 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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