WARNING!!! SPOILERS BELOW! DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET OR DON'T WANT TO GET SPOILED!!!
Anyway I wanted to make this review because there's a lot that I want to talk about with this movie. I just saw it yesterday during it's release on the 21st where I live so I was fking hyped ALL DAY. I was already hearing from a lot of people that it was terrible and that it was a huge disappointment, however I didn't let that get me down. As I was watching it I was beginning to disagree with the whole notion that it was a bad movie. I ended up loving it, although that doesnt mean that there weren't things that bothered me about the movie. I might add more to this later if it comes to mind, but I had to get all this off my mind to point out the main pros and cons of this movie to kind of break down why others thought this was a bad movie compared to people like me who enjoyed it.
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Likes:
- Cogman...I literally don't know how to sum up this character. I grew attached to him so fast. He was the main comedy of the movie and I loved everything about him. He was probably the one thing that saved the movie from becoming a total disaster. Everything about him was perfect. His multi personality character just made him the main highlight to my experience of the movie.
- I was given a laugh once every 5 minutes or more. There were a lot of jokes and puns put in from almost everyone which made even the most slowest scenes enjoyable.
- I couldn't of been the only one getting mixed feelings from Optimus being tied down and beaten xD.
- The whole concept of the Cybertronian dragon being composed of knights was awesome. I was led off by others thinking it was a Predacon from the trailers which would of been equally as cool.
- Optimus and Bumblebee had the biggest connection out of all the other bots. The movie really brought that out nicely, almost like father and son xD.
- They brought Simmon back! Simmon was my favourite character in Revenge of the Fallen and I was happy that he was involved in this story. It may not have been for very long, but nothing had changed in his character.
- My favourite part was when Optimus basically said in different words 'Say hello to my little friend' and Bumblee hit it off with the 'Buzzkill' pun.
- They played an original Transformers theme near the end of the movie which I recognised right away. All the music in the Transformer series is just breathtaking, but the tracks from the first movie will always have a special place in my heart.
Dislikes:
- There wasn't much action compared to the other movies. A majority of the movie is just the humans talking. Other than the random humor there were some parts that kind of bored me.
- The whole movie seemed rushed. They introduced a huge amount of history that I was very curious about, but they had to push the plot forward and a lot of story behind Sir Edmond Burton's collection of Transformer history remained a mystery.
- The military was very wishy washy throughout the movie. At first they were just hunting down Cade and the others for a bounty, but some were defending the old team such as Lennox. Later in the movie Lennox just straight up teamed up with Megatron which would go against anything Optimus believes in. I get that they were just trying to follow orders and get the staff but come on Lennox, you've gone against the military before for the sake of saving Optimus. And after everything they went through they just ended up helping the Autobots again...*flips table*
- The ending was so abrupt. After Optimus and the other saved the planet once again (Actually it was Vivian that did but whatever), the movie basically ended there. There was no follow up on everyone on what they did after or how each person was going to return to their lives. Megatron fell off the ship and there was no further evidence on what happened to him. He had been through far worse. He's fallen off the atmosphere and onto the planet and was easily revived, there no way he could of died from just being sucked out from the ship and falling couple of thousand feet.
Questions:
- My main question before I watched the movie was how Megatron got his form back as in AOE he was still Galvatron. I was looking for any kind of explanation. Even a quick line from Megatron saying how he changed from Galvatron would of satisfied me but they gave us nothing. It frustrated me beyond belief.
- The whole TRF Operation was odd. They didn't even explain how it came to be or what TRF even stands for. It made it look like they were all the bad guys and yet they just ended up tearing that shit off like it was never a thing and helping Optimus in the end. What was the point?
- In Sir Edmond Burton mansion, he explained to Vivian that she was the last Witwiccan line descendant from Merlin. There wasn't much time to look at the book she was given with the family tree, but i'm pretty sure I saw Sam Witwicky in there. If Vivian was really the last Witwiccan, then what happened to Sam?
- I don't know why they involved Wheelie into this movie when he wasn't in AOE. It makes no sense. WHERE DID HE COME FROM??
- A simple question, why is Drift red? His car form is different too, a Mercedes I believe. I literally only saw his car form once for a few seconds. Everyone else is the same except for Drift.
- Another question I had before watching the movie was about the tiny dino bots that were somehow a thing in this movie. I think this is the first time they have had as I should say 'Sparklings' into the movies. I can guess where they came from but literally, did Grimlock and the others just have the potential to sprout babies overtime? How do they even reproduce? Seriously, they don't explain how this sparkling shit works in Bayverse!
- Bumblebee has never used his real voice before until the perfect moment where Optimus almost killed him. I was a bit confused as to how he got his voice back but I decided to brush it off. What I didn't get was why he went back to using the radio to talk and then talking with his original voice later at the end of the movie. Did he just not have full functionality of it or something? What's going on?
- Also, Bumblebee has this sorcery that allows him to break apart and then connect himself back together. That shit don't make any sense. But then why didn't he use that tactic when fighting Optimus?
- How does Barricade keep coming back after basically dying in every movie he's been in?
- There were a lot of new Decepticons I've never heard of thrown into this movie. Berserker was one of the coolest ones I was excited to see because of the toy they released of him. Even so they didn't show much of him, Mohawk, or Nitro Zeus.
- I'm having a hard time summing up the very last scene of the movie with the human Quintessa. I should of known she didn't die when she just magically popped out of thin air anticlimactically. I thought this was supposed to be the last movie of the series. Is that just how it's going to end or are they planning on making another movie? I'M SO CON FUSED!
Things I wish they added:
- I wish they gave more insight of Bumblebee and Hotrod's relationship. They had so much history together as the movie revealed they were brother in arms. I was expecting Bee and Hotrod to share some moment of rejoicing from seeing each other after all this time, but they didn't even act that way. They acted as though they just saw each other yesterday.
- I Reeeeeally wanted them to explain a few things from the other movie as to how Galvatron became Megatron and maybe connected more to AOE instead of just focusing on the present time of the film.
- As much as the trailers led on, they should of made waaaay more scenes with the new bots. The most we got was Cogman but I can't complain about that.
Trailers vs Movie:
- My biggest issue was that the first trailer involved Canopy so I thought he played a bigger part in the story or with Izabella. The fact that they killed him off so fast bothered me.
- They did specific reveal trailers for characters like Hotrod and Steelbane yet they barely got any screen time, making the trailers show the most of their footage in the movie.
- Optimus was shown a lot in the trailer as if making him the main focus of TF5 so it was obvious that people would get hyped for him, but the movie was so focused on the humans that they didn't even show him as much as the trailer's led on. I'm sure this was a major disappointment for everyone.
- They added a lot of things about Izabella but honestly she wasn't involved with the plot that much.
Overall Points:
- Although the movie was good, it had the potential to be a LOT better.
- Micheal Bay has done far better. Everyone wanted this movie to be the grand finish since it was supposed to end the whole series, but things were rushed and not enough robot content was added.
- They put too much history into the movie that it left gaps and more unanswered questions.
- I really want to know if the ending was hinting to another movie or just a random twist.
- The trailers revealed too much and rose everyone's expectations on the film just to shit on them with misleading content and 'not enough robots' as most people would hate on the movie for.