Michael Bay
Transformers-L’ultimo cavaliere

THE REVIEW

By the time he reached the fifth chapter of the robotic saga that brought so much satisfaction, especially financially, to director Bay, a question must have arisen in him (perhaps due to the monotonous repetition of billion-dollar earnings?): Can I provide the series with a real story?

And here begins, and ends I would say, the essence of a franchise that has never aimed at narrating but rather at showing, boasting an aesthetic dedicated to astonishing and shifting towards believable the incredible interaction between man and digital, between real and virtual, leaving aside any artistic ambition but not forgetting to entertain the viewer with a shamelessly dedicated style to pure visual and sensory spectacle.

The attempt to narrate, however, creates true confusion in this chapter: actors who seem to have stumbled into the film by accident, good ideas (robots allied with humans in different eras) played out childishly, random editing that literally glues together unlinked and inexplicable situations and even robots that become useless and boring as they multiply on screen, without any real purpose other than to fill up the void.

Was a story needed? Apparently not, if the damage is of this magnitude. It almost seems that the authors and the director, once they started writing, decided to indulge in some hallucinogens, the effects of which lasted until the final word End.

I assure you that in the final scenes dedicated to the war between good and evil, Geppo, Mickey Mouse, and Batman could easily appear on a flying carpet without surprising anyone, so incredibly high is the number of absurdities offered by the plot up to that point.

"Transformers" and its sequels have never been part of the "high" cinema, nor did they even aspire to be, but they nonetheless had their own consistency in the desire to entertain with craftsmanship of excellent level.

This chapter is the sad and boring end of it all, and I believe no one will mind if Bay wishes to end his robotic saga. Although I fear it won't happen.