Transformers: The Last Knight Review: 5 Ups & 6 Downs

Downs

6. The Script Is Atrocious

Though a "writer's room" was organised to give the film a more cohesive feel and help build a Transformers Cinematic Universe of sorts, make no mistake that The Last Knight is as inconsistently written as its predecessors.

Yes, there are joys to be had at its sheer ludicrousness (but more on that later), yet the minute-to-minute writing is appallingly transparent, with exposition being lazily dumped out of nowhere, characters dropping toe-curlingly bad one-liners, and the general logic being, well, pretty much non-existent.

With the story being conceived by four people and written by three of them, it's not terribly surprising that the end result is all over the place, but if you had hoped the new writing approach might remedy some of the series' long-standing issues, you'd be mostly wrong.