<em>Transformers: The Last Knight</em> Is More of the Same
This installment marks director Michael Bay's final outing, but the loud, unpleasant franchise isn't planning to go away.
About Last Knight…
Forgive me. I was thinking of a more innocent time, 30 years ago, when the most frightening image that mainstream cinema could conjure up was Demi Moore and Rob Lowe getting it on in the shower. Since those days, Hollywood has come up with so many more novel ways in which to disappoint and/or irritate us. And few have pushed the envelope as aggressively as Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise.
The first installment was silly, of course—it was a movie about extraterrestrial robots that turn into 18-wheelers and muscle cars—but was an ; the next, , a ; and the last, , featured an extended joke about one of the heroes threatening to charge another with statutory rape for . I genuinely wish I were making that up.
