"Transformers: The Last Knight" (2017) Review

Published on Dark Horizons

“Transformers: The Last Knight” is a bad film – in fact, it’s one of the most ludicrous films ever made. Michael Bay is not so much a filmmaker but a figure whose internal thought processes resembles Peter Stormare standing alongside the wood chipper from “Fargo.” Instead of limbs being tossed in there, he’s throwing in movies and TV influences like “Force Awakens,” “Kingdom of Heaven,” “2012,” “The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Abyss,” “Green Lantern,” “Indiana Jones and the The Last Crusade,” “The Da Vinci Code,” and “Game of Thrones.” That violently ground up excess is sprayed across the screen.

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Blake Howard

Blake Howard is a writer, film critic, podcast host and producer behind One Heat Minute Productions, which includes shows One Heat Minute, The Last 12 Minutes Of The Mohicans, Increment Vice, All The President’s Minutes, Miami Nice and Josie & The Podcats. Endorsed and featuring legendary filmmaker Michael Mann, One Heat Minute was named by New York Magazine and Vulture as one of 100 Great Podcasts To Listen To and nominated for an Australian Podcast Award. Creator of the Australian film collective Graffiti With Punctuation, Blake is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic with bylines in Empire Magazine, SBS Movies, Vague Visages, Dark Horizons, Film Ink and many more.

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