A New Mission For Transformers The Last Knight

Good day my friends! Well I just looked at the calendar today and couldn't believe that the month of June is almost over and July is upon us! Man where did the time go? School is out for summer, and we are halfway through the summer movie season. Sheesh hard to believe that kids are done school for another year. It just seems like yesterday that I was graduating high school all ready to move on in the next phase of my life and now flash forward 22 years later and I am older my third niece is graduating high school, I have a more grey hairs and I am about to enter a new decade of my life at the end of August. But the thing I have noticed all this time is how some of the things that I liked as a kid such as clothing styles, television shows and the old toys that I used to play with as a kid have come back in style and even gotten a makeover or upgrade for a new generation to enjoy but brings back lots of nostalgia. That brings me to this weeks latest movie review! As this week we look at the latest instalment to the Transformers franchise, Transformers The Last Knight which stars Mark Wahlberg(Patriots Day) and Sir Anthony Hopkins(The Silence Of The Lambs). So let us take a journey to this universe once more to see if there is still more than meets the eye to the Transformers or if it is time to put the toys away.

Some time after Optimus Prime had left Earth in the last movie to find his creator things have changed! More and more Transformers both Autobots and Decepticons have been arriving to Earth almost everyday. Humans are on the hunt for Megatron the leader of the Decepticons who now lives again but also have declared war on all Transformers.What Optimus finds when he arrives on Cybertron is not only his maker known as Quintessa but that his planet has now become a dead planet. She tells him that he was responsible for its destruction and that being his creator he must obey her and brainwashes him to go back to Earth and find a long lost artifact of immense power given to the supposedly mythical sorcerer Merlin from a race of Transformer knights who came to the planet to hide it from her. She tells him that with this artifact she give Cybertron new life, without it the planet will die. Back on Earth Cade Yeager(Wahlberg) is in hiding as an enemy of the state for siding with the Autobots and is hiding with them in a junk yard along with a couple other humans one of them being an orphaned young girl with great mechanical skills who sees the aliens as her only family. But when Cade is given an old medallion from dying ancient Autobot he finds that he is part of a bigger destiny all stemming from the reason the Transformers keep coming to Earth and their hidden history on this planet. which is told to him by Sir Edmund Burton(Hopkins) who has been keeping these secrets. But he is not the only one who has a part to play in this foretold day of destiny but an Oxford Professor named Vivian Wembley whose family tree holds the secret to the past and the power to help save the planet. So with Cybertron moving closer to earth and an impending doom for the planet these three unlikely people along with Bumblebee and the other Autobots must help save the world.

Wow! That movie sound like it has quite a bit going on in it! And that maybe you are thinking that this going to be another confusing mess like the last one was. But this movie actually had a pretty good story that you could follow, and didn't drag on like the last one did. Now I know that it seems that these movies have seemed to have decline a bit in each sequel with the third one being one of the better ones to follow the original. These movies are full of action, explosions, special effects, cool cars and some cheesy dialogue with fair and decent acting performances and a few laughs along the way. But this is summer and it seems that we are bombarded with all these sequels from the now norm the franchise. But the kid in me couldn't help but feel a little bit of nostalgia watching this! And while it seems that it isn't getting the greatest of reviews out there I would have to say I did enjoy it much more than the last one. There were a few holes in the story but it still carried nicely and it could have gone for a little less action sequences and better use a few more characters instead in the movie. But it still was enjoyable and was money well spent at the theatre. so I am going against the grain of other reviewers out there and give this movie a 6.9 on The Justin Scale Of Movies and make it a Pick-It movie to see in the theatre. That's a wrap here my friends for me and my latest movie review! Until next time, keep that popcorn freshly popped and and I will see you again at the movies!