Transformers: The Last Knight
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 21, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
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19
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26
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80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 20, 2017
If you’re not staggered by the technique on display here – the stuff that sets Bay’s work miles above the Fast & Furiouses, X-Men: Apocalypses and Tom Cruise-chasing Mummies of this world – you’re not paying attention. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsAriel ScottiJun 20, 2017
It’s been reported that this “Transformers” sequel had a $217 million budget. The special effects — especially in IMAX 3-D — on the screen make you believe it. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 25, 2017
Clangorous and nonsensical, the fifth installment of the toys-to-world-saviors franchise still has a spark of grandeur that could only come from one director. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 20, 2017
For the first time, the messy hyperactive form and nihilistic crunched-metal content seem to reinforce each other. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJun 20, 2017
Monster metal, mass destruction, Anthony Hopkins saying “dude.” This is your brain on Michael Bay—a cortex scramble so amped on pyro and noise and brawling cyborgs it can only process what’s happening on screen in onomatopoeia: Clang! Pew-pew! Kablooey! Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonJun 27, 2017
Bay makes a lot of familiar moves here. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 20, 2017
If the film’s trio of new screenwriters (replacing series mainstay Ehren Kruger) have seamlessly upheld the crass and juvenile “Transformers” sensibility, then Bay’s visual sensibility has, if anything, matured, to the point of demanding and earning your exasperated surrender. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 20, 2017
The more striking moments of The Last Knight—this is an ostentatious Michael Bay movie, after all—speak just as loudly to its director’s indifference to both source material and visual scale. Read full review
50
IndieWireEric KohnJun 20, 2017
It’s an unabashed freewheeling mess of CGI explosions, fast-talking strategies and shiny metal monstrosities clashing in epic battles. And it’s actually kind of fun, in an infuriating sort of way, to watch the most ridiculous Hollywood movie of the year do its thing. Read full review
50
The Film StageDaniel SchindelJun 20, 2017
This film’s sense of action geography and tactics is atrocious. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 20, 2017
It's the little pleasures in mediocre movies that mean a lot. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJun 20, 2017
The fifth Transformers movie, The Last Knight, is far from the worst in this continuing experiment in noisy nonsense based on Hasbro toys. That is thanks largely to two words: Anthony Hopkins. Read full review
43
The VergeMegan FarokhmaneshJun 20, 2017
It’s beautiful, bombastic, and nearly indistinguishable from those that came before it. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodyJun 27, 2017
The absolute tastelessness of Bay’s images, their stultifying service to platitudes and to merchandise, doesn’t at all diminish their wildly imaginative power. Read full review
40
EmpireIan FreerJun 26, 2017
Bay’s genuine determination to give you a good time still doesn’t result in fun. Overlong, overstuffed and soulless, for fans who grew up with Optimus and Co, The Last Knight will sting like a bee. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 20, 2017
It’s all an overstuffed mess, but that was true of the previous entries as well, and audiences obviously don’t seem to mind. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatt MaytumJun 20, 2017
By now you know exactly what to expect from a Transformers film: undeniably epic action spectacle at the cost of character, logic or genuine drama. Predictably formulaic. Read full review
40
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 20, 2017
The Last Knight is not, in any conventional sense, entertaining or good, although parts of it are spectacular. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJun 20, 2017
Bay's latest Transformer title is a daunting behemoth of a film and you can feel every ounce of dead weight, as sins of the past are committed without any signs of stopping. Read full review
40
VoxEmily Todd VanDerWerffJun 20, 2017
There’s fun to be had in The Last Knight, if you can find it among the chaos — and if you can remember it after the fact. Read full review
40
IGNGav MurphyJun 20, 2017
The Last Knight is the loudest and most explosively dull installment yet. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchKatie WalshJun 22, 2017
This is Bay’s world, and when faced with the end of the world, there’s only one message to be gleaned from this supposed finale of the “Transformers” franchise: The Mack trucks and the muscle cars will outlive us all. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 22, 2017
For better or worse (emphasis on the latter), it was unlike anything else on the multiplex landscape. In 2017, it’s becoming difficult for Bay to distinguish his brand of brain-dead spectacle from the brain-dead spectacle of many other sequels, prequels, and remakes. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenJun 20, 2017
When words fail in The Last Knight, the crunching and crashing and KLANKing of the special-effects scenes take up the slack. Punishingly overwrought in every aspect, Last Knight is a KLANK! KLANK! KLUNKER. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 20, 2017
The rhythmic assurance of truly bracing screen action, even if it's just a bunch of metal beating up a bunch of other metal, or clobbering humans, never gains traction. The cross-cutting suggests the editors took care of things via group text. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaJun 25, 2017
The Transformers movies are a favorite object of critical scorn, and narratively, The Last Knight remains barely coherent. But it’s more fun than "Age of Extinction," though both movies are so drunk on money and effects they accidentally go weird. Read full review
29
Paste MagazineWill LeitchJun 22, 2017
All the signature Bay Movements are here, the slow-motion hero shots, the scale so vast that even planets look small and modest, the aggressively dorky jokes, but they all have a perfunctory feel, like even Bay couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm this time. Read full review
25
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 22, 2017
Watching “Transfomers” is like sitting in a car that’s revving its engine while stuck in the mud. It sounds like it’s getting somewhere, even though all it ever does is spin its wheels. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 21, 2017
It’s easily the worst installment in this endlessly awful series, probably the worst movie of the summer. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OlekSinskiJun 20, 2017
Bay swipes elements from other popular movies and TV shows, such as “The Da Vinci Code,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Game of Thrones.” This director’s motto? Throw everything at the wall and then blow that wall sky-high! Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 20, 2017
The plot is a canvas on which to bludgeon the audience with action sequences that have been shot for maximum overstimulation. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 20, 2017
It’s all about as exciting as watching two drawings fight each other on a computer monitor. Read full review
25
USA TodayBrian TruittJun 20, 2017
Even if you love alien robots punching each other while tossing out insipid one-liners, it’s a painfully long two and a half hours where the biggest problem isn’t a lack of plot but way too many of them. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJun 20, 2017
From the very beginning, this is an incoherent mess. Read full review
20
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 20, 2017
This series’ tone-deaf humour and dull nods to selfless heroism have become toxic irritants — a sensation not helped by the film’s collection of clattering, joyless robots and dopey humans. Read full review
20
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 20, 2017
It's bigger and louder and, if not longer (checking in at a mere two hours and 28 minutes), certainly stupider than ever before. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 20, 2017
The final explosive showdown seems to be competing with Marvel movies for spectacle. But Marvel brings wit and fun. As far as those factors go, the Transformers franchise is in very short supply. Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 20, 2017
If you’re here for the director’s trademark chaos editing (where fights go from points A to D to Q), toxic masculinity (and female objectification), comedy scenes rendered tragic (and vice versa), and general full-volume confusion, you’ll get all those things in abundance. Read full review
16
Consequence of SoundDominick Suzanne-MayerJun 20, 2017
While the flagrant product placement is dialed back (at least on Bay’s curve) and there’s mercifully 100% less discussion of sexual consent laws this time around, the latest outing suffers from arguably the most fatal flaw a movie about giant fighting robots can: it’s brutally and relentlessly boring from start to finish. Read full review
16
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 20, 2017
The Last Knight is like a Red Bull-charged Bay yelling “I regret nothing!” as he jumps out of a plane backwards with no chute, detonating a megaton nuclear explosive while firing Uzis at his skydiving pals above him because hell, dude, that sounds like a wicked fond farewell. [ Read full review
12
Slant MagazineJake ColeJun 20, 2017
The sensory overload of Michael Bay's hyperkinetic cinema is such that it eradicates any actual sense of place. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 21, 2017
This latest entry is simply dumb, dull, and pointless. Read full review
10
Village VoiceBilge EbiriJun 20, 2017
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The AtlanticChristopher OrrJan 9, 2018
It all culminates, of course, in a cacophonous and interminable final battle involving far too many participants to possibly keep straight. Read full review
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ObserverOliver JonesJun 22, 2017
A sloppy, stupid, and — evidenced by other casual misappropriations of history at its darkest (Frederick Douglass was also part of this Transformers secret society but apparently couldn’t convince them to do anything about slavery)— quite possibly evil movie. Read full review
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Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 21, 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight is all kinds of awful. It's also the worst of the series to date, which is saying something. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 20, 2017
It is not so much lazy filmmaking as it is a very expensive middle finger to common sense and the basic concept of entertainment. Read full review
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