Transformers: The Last Knight - 2017

In the Dark Ages, Merlin was a liar, not a true wizard, but he knew the Autobots and asked their help to help King Arthur and was given a dragon-bot.

1600 years later, after the fourth movie: Optimus left to find his makers. Megatron vanished too. Without them, it’s humans vs bots, now declared ‘illegal on Earth’. They’re free in Cuba only.

Good for Cuba.

Cade lives in hiding with Bee and other autobots ; Optimus finds the Maker, and her touch is like Mind Control; she orders him to bring her back her staff that was stolen from her, she says (the one that was given to Merlin).

Cade is given an object by a dying bot, which gets later attached to his arm, and a c3po-like bot, Cogman, comes to tell him that he’s been chosen and takes him to England.

Count Burton tells him that Bumblebee fought the Nazis under another name. That 12 bots fought with King Arthur, 12 bots and 12 men. “Legend held that one last night would someday be chosen and the struggle to save the world would begin”.

Cade is that last knight. Viviane is the last descendant from Merlin and the only one who can get the staff. 

Simmons finds a legendary book and the solution to a big question, about where these alien things appear and Stonehenge at its center.

Cade and Vivian have their mission: they use a submarine to find a lost ship.

Cybertron the planet is coming here, they see what looks like two moons, and quite soon will come to Earth causing million of deaths.

They find Merlin’s tomb and what looks like a stick, but when she touches it it becomes the staff.

Lennox and other men come for it, but then ‘Optimus’ is there adn they’re forced to give it to him, although it’s clear he’s not himself. He’s Nemesis now.

He fights Bee but then suddenly BumbleBee finds his voice, his own real voice, to remind him of who he is and of their friendship or something, and Prime is Optimus again. He stops.

Megatron comes to take the staff, saying that Optimu failed to save Cybertron and kill Unicron (Earth) and flies away with the staff.

The 12 (I think) bot-knights come to attack Optimus, and Optimus is about to get killed when Cade’s metal thing becomes a sword that can stop him, and now all the bots there hail him as the last knight.

The Guardian Knights call the Maker: Quintessa the Great Deceiver.

Burton dies against Megatron, at the Stonehenge portal.

It seems like in a momeny they stopped Megatron.

Then the plan is to stop Quintessa, so Viviane must take the staff back.

There’s a big fight, the little blue bot Squeaks helps, Optimus and Bee defeat Quintessa and Megatron, Viviane takes the staff and Optimus saves them. 

It’s the end, time for Optimus Prime’s speech about repairing both our worlds, and there’s more to Earth than it seems, and it’s time for Autobots to go back home… whatever that means… and in the last scene there’s a strange woman in the desert saying that she knows how to kill Unicron… again, whatever that means, lots of ways to kill the Earth, since they live so long they could just wait until humans do the work…

Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager

Anthony Hopkiins as Sir Edmond Burton

Josh Duhamel as Colonel William Lennox

Laura Haddock as Vivian Wembly

Stanley Tucci as Merlin

John Turturro as Agent Simmons

P.s. well, the sword scene was really cool, heroic, such a pity he sort of had only that one scene to show he was The Last Knight of the Legend… other than that, he was just another brave fighter like there’s one in all transformers movies.

The soldiers scenes back and forth felt a bit useless, I mean I understand they couldn’t just… do nothing, they had to show the soldiers fighting as well,but still, many long scenes pretty useless…

It’s nice that they didn’t just forget that Cade had a daughter, she was just away for her safety, and he couldn’t talk to her to avoid someone tracking her or him, but he could call her and hear her voice telling him she was fine and safe.

Cogman.. yes I did like him a lot, he was great in every scene, maybe the best thing in the movie, maybe, for sure one of the best.

ITA Transformers L’ultimo Cavaliere