10 Movies Where The First Scene Is The Best

10. Bumblebee

Bumblebee surprisingly turned out to be a pretty solid spin-off/prequel/reboot of Michael Bay's Transformers series, even if it absolutely peaked in its first four minutes.

While the bulk of the film is a fun enough action-adventure romp focused on a teenage girl, Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), bonding with Bumblebee while he's on the run from a secret government agency, the opening is on a whole other level indeed.

The first scene takes place on Cybertron as the Autobots stage a desperate last stand against the Decepticons while readying to evacuate the planet.

Eventually, Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) instructs Bee to land on Earth and set up a base there, while he stays behind to continue the fight.

It's a short but oh-so-sweet sequence clearly made by a team with a lot of love for the Transformers IP.

Beyond the stunning VFX, it looks exactly how a CGI translation of the animated series should, and made it immediately clear the film would be considerably more reverent to the source than the divisive Bay films.

Sure, it's a shame the whole damn movie couldn't have been like this, but this opening isn't just the best scene in Bumblebee - it's the best scene in any Transformers film.