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47 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinIf 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.
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe 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.
- 50Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallIt's the little pleasures in mediocre movies that mean a lot.
- 40IGNGav MurphyIGNGav MurphyThe Last Knight is the loudest and most explosively dull installment yet.
- 40There’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.
- 40We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoBay'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.
- 20TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeIf 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.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe 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.
- 16The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe 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. [
- 12Slant MagazineJake ColeSlant MagazineJake ColeThe sensory overload of Michael Bay's hyperkinetic cinema is such that it eradicates any actual sense of place.