However, this ends very briefly and leads to another big explosive battle with nonsense. There is also the plotline of Optimus Prime ( Peter Cullen) being brainwashed and turned evil. These all sound like much more entertaining films but this is what we got. The Last Knight introduces the idea that Transformers have been around since the Arthurian era and have helped humanity in various moments including WWII. Anthony Hopkins also appears as a quirky, wealthy figure and is entertaining enough. Still, there are better characters in this movie, and Wahlberg is given more to do besides just being an inventor. It has a lazy script, awful jokes as usual, and it ignores a lot of the lore previously set up in previous movies. While this isn’t the worst, The Last Knight feels like the one where Bay and the studio gave up. Still, there are a ton of questionable moments, bad jokes, and a lousy story that makes this a completely unenjoyable experience. Is the action fun? Sure, but it’s the same hard-to-follow robot fights as before. The marketing promises dinosaur robots and those don’t come until two hours into the movie, which by that point, you are completely checked out. In addition to that weirdness, there is hilariously obvious product placement for both American and Chinese products. But then again, neither was making the film in the first place. But for some weird (and creepy) reason, Bay decided to include a scene where we learn that she's a minor and is dating an older guy but their relationship is legal because he is only three years older, according to "Romeo and Juliet laws". The new main girl, Nicola Peltz, is once again oversexualized. Age of Extinction is a painfully long experience filled with unnecessary and confusing moments. It’s not just Wahlberg’s fault, necessarily, because the script does him no favors. It’s hard to believe that switching from Shia LaBeouf to Mark Wahlberg was a bad idea but it's exactly what happened here.
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