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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Good idea but bad execution
I grew up watching the cartoons, so the fantastic thing about this and the other movies is seeing the real-live Transformers. I enjoy that the movie had new characters, I'm very happy another Transformer from the cartoons appeared and the foreshadowing of the next movie. The things Bay gets criticised for happen here too, but less than in the other movies, so that's a plus.
What destroyed this movie for me was the "humour". It looks like they thought - what joke or one-liner could we add to make the scenes funny and in the end they just added all. Good for some 10-year-olds, but for me it was too much. Sometimes I was smiling, sometimes I was just thinking "Why am I watching this?" There's a butler character I liked the first minute he was there, but then he made too many dumb jokes and it was just annoying.
Another negative thing is the editing. I usually don't notice those things but here it was too obvious. As if they squeezed some scenes in just because they had them. Also, for me there was no real climax, no character-development. A lot of things happen but somehow nothing seemed worked out. I have to think hard to remember how the story went. I think the movie could have been good if it had been better edited and probably cut shorter. If it weren't about transformers I would have given for the story a 3 out of 10.
So, if you liked the other movies and don't get annoyed by some Adam Sandler-Grown ups type of humour this movie will be entertaining for you.
If you were hoping for a good story with good characters - just don't.
I don't regret watching it, but I wouldn't see it again.