Looking for a summer diversion at the movies? anotherKyleL reviews the latest in the Transformers franchise
caused by the extreme brutality of its action sequences and the extreme earnestness of its many emotional beats. In the first five minutes of the film, one transformer literally rips the spine out of another, and over the course of the next two hours, we see robots bisect, dislimb, and generally dismember one another, with special attention given to a blade stabbed through a metallic face.
, it feels more like an attempt at giving fans exactly what they want than a purposefully curated aesthetic tension. Michael Bay’s Transformers films were criticized for their general lack of concern for the property, from robot designs that looked nothing like the cartoons and toys to Bay’s trademark lack of interest in character. But fans loved the intensity and brutality of the action he delivered.
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