Early reviews are in for Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth film in the Michael Bay-directed action franchise, and it’s not looking good.
The film currently has a 17 percent and counting on Rotten Tomatoes, with a Metacritic score of 29 based on 32 total reviews so far.
The Hasbro toys-inspired franchise is no stranger to those kinds of numbers, with the last two films in the series —Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: Dark of the Moon — receiving an 18 percent and 35 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively.According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Frank Scheck, one of the film’s weakest points is its bloated plot. “Anyone capable of explaining the near-incomprehensible storyline deserves a prize of some sort,” writes Scheck. And, he says, although the screenplay is ambitious, it’s “all an overstuffed mess.”
The film stars Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Hopkins as inventor Cade Yeager and English lord Sir Edmond Burton, respectively. Cade, along with a handful of supporting characters, must assist the Autobots in another fight between good and evil.
According to Scheck, Wahlberg, who is leaving the franchise after this film, makes the most of his role. However, he says, “Hopkins, who’s…
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