Transformers: The Last Knight: reviews

What the critics say average 6.0 from 5 outlets

• 8.0 The TelegraphRobbie Collin If 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.
• 6.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman For the first time, the messy hyperactive form and nihilistic crunched-metal content seem to reinforce each other. Read
• 6.0 Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt Monster metal, mass destruction, Anthony Hopkins saying ?dude.? This is your brain on Michael Bay?a cortex scramble so amped on pyro and noise and brawling cyborgs it can only process what?s happening on screen in onomatopoeia: Clang! Pew-pew! Kablooey! Read
• 5.0 CriticDaniel Schindel This film?s sense of action geography and tactics is atrocious. Read
• 5.0 The New YorkerRichard Brody The absolute tastelessness of Bay?s images, their stultifying service to platitudes and to merchandise, doesn?t at all diminish their wildly imaginative power. Read