Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel,
John Turturro, Glenn Morshower, Laura Haddock, Anthony Hopkins
Rating: 7 out of 10, Anyone who goes
to a Michael Bay directed transformers movie and complains has only themselves
to blame. You know going in you’re going to be subjected to incessant CGI
action, relentless noise, and plot holes Optimus Prime could easily walk
through. I enjoyed the cacophony and thought this might be the best of the
transformer movies although that isn’t exactly high cotton. Who else but Bay
could audaciously link King Arthur and his knights with Hasbro’s transformers?
The movie is overly long but it’s all breathless action so it goes quickly. The
first three quarters focus mostly on the human characters which was welcome as
Wahlberg is always watchable and Sir Anthony Hopkins (must have been a huge
payday) looked to be having a supremely good time with tongue firmly in cheek.
It was Bay at his best/worst which means an action packed summer
popcorn-a-palooza. I liked it, so sue me.
MVP: Hopkins as the last earl chewing up scenery
amongst all the Bay madness
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