10 Movies Too Bloated For Their Own Good

For the third time in a row, Michael Bay proclaimed that this would be his final Transformers movie as director. Thankfully, he was finally telling the truth because after watching The Last Knight its hard to fathom just how the franchise could possibly become any more convoluted.

The first Transformers is by far the best in the series because it focuses on a pretty straightforward 'boy and his car' narrative, albeit one that features giant alien robots kicking the living daylights out of each other. From there the mythology only continued to get more nonsensical, with The Last Knight really taking the biscuit.

For a movie that opens with the revelation that the Transformers gave an assist to King Arthur on the battlefield in the year 484, its almost impressive that it gets even more stupid from there. Drowning in a sea of exposition as the narrative reaches breaking point, we discover about the Order of the Witwiccans that included everyone from Sir Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking via Shia LaBeouf, a throwaway gag that an Autobot killed Hitler and the revelation that the Token Female Lead Character is actually an important plot device in waiting. Who would have thought?

Hopefully the upcoming Bumblebee will strip the franchise back to basics because based on The Last Knight's disappointing box office returns, audiences are fast losing patience with a series dangerously close to running out of fumes.