Paramount has released a newTransformers: The Last Knightposter bearing the tagline, “Rethink your heroes.” As we saw in thefirst trailer, Optimus Prime has become evil, or at the very least, wants to murder Bumblebee, as if this had any emotional resonance whatsoever. BetweenTransformersandThe Fate of the Furious, it looks like 2017 will be the year where our one-dimensional heroes get turned into misunderstood antagonists. Granted, I’m not sure who has less depth: the growling, robotic hunk of faux nobility or Optimus Prime.
I would say that plot details onThe Last Knightare scarce right now, but that would imply thatThe Last Knighthas a plot, or that anyone would care about the story if said plot existed. What’s more bizarre is how a franchise featuring vehicles that turn into giant robots is so utterly joyless.Michael Bayhas made movies proving he clearly has a sense of humor (it’s a sense of humor that functions at the level of a 12-year-old boy, but a sense of humor nonetheless), and yet here we have glowering robots killing each other and the tagline to “Rethink your heroes.” I’m not sure whyTransformersmovies need to be dark and gritty, but for some reason that tone helps them gross over a billion dollars worldwide.
Check out the newTransformers: The Last Knightposter below. The film opens August 24, 2025 and starsMark Wahlberg,Laura Haddock,Stanley Tucci,Jerrod Carmichael,John Goodman,John Turturro,Josh Duhamel,Isabela Moner,Gil Birmingham, andJean Dujardin.
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