TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/10
With Anthony Ramos and Luna Lauren Velez
Director: Steven Caple Jr.
Restriction: 13. Language. Violence
(In theaters)
Moviegoers, sifting through robots destroying people, shape-shifting to take on a new machine form and crazy noise, might prefer a root canal to the latest Transformers: Rise of the Beasts which is now rattling and shaking theaters nationwide.
The summary is deceptively simple. Decades ago, a new version of the Transformers, the Maximals, joined the Autobots to get the Earth. (Are you still keeping up?) Now humans are also fighting for their survival among the machines.
If that synopsis didn’t make you sit up, pass this action extravaganza by. It’s really just Hollywood’s way of showing off how technologically advanced they’ve become. At least their robots work, unlike ours!
The series started in 2007, and is now drawing on the seventh chapter. In each, the action becomes more violence-obsessed, the special effects bigger and the stories thinner, although this latest one is at least better than its Michael Bay predecessors.
It is more in line with 2018’s popular Bumblebeeand this time the people at least play a bigger role than before, and the filmmakers care more for them than for the machines.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is only recommended if action is your thing and the violence of the robots makes you forget about the chaos in our country and the bad news for two hours.
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