Can science, myth, religion, history, the aristocracy, the people, the British, Americans, the privileged, the self-made, the men, the women, humankind, and Autobots, be chaotically yet adventurously, ideologically yet practically, intergalactically yet locally, or quite simply extracurricularly brought together in a wild brainiacally styled jewelled Nile Summertime extravaganza, complete with a spellbinding mix of the brash and the delicate which epically unites risk, love, service and dedication, to thoroughly entertain while multilaterally seeking knowledge, like a trip to New York, or a voyage down under?
Yes.
I would say, "yes, yes they can."
"Affirmative" even.
A constructive ebb and flow.
It's always fun when the new Transformers films are released but I'll admit I've never enjoyed one as much as The Last Knight.
I mean, I'll actually watch this one again.
It's number 5 too.
So many metamorphic developments.
Plucky little Izabella (Isabela Moner), resiliently in search of friends and family.
The hyperreactive robotic butler (Jim Carter as Cogman), who flamboyantly yet earnestly adds neurotic inspirational spice.
Agent Simmons (Jon Turturro) is back, theorizing and analyzing his way to the heart of the narrative's conceit.
Sir Edmund Burton (Anthony Hopkins), youthfully and mischievously contemporizing more than a millennia of British legend.
England and the United States romantically come to terms?, the couple in question perhaps creating an invincible universal super being?
Plus secret entrances, spontaneous sushi, cheeky self-reflexive criticisms of blockbuster music, Cuba once again warmly featured in a 2017 American mainstream release, prophetic books preserved, getting-away-with-it explanations, scenarios, Bumblebee (Erik Aadahl), First Nations fluidity, Tony Hale (JPL Engineer), whales.
The wild script energetically shifts from sentiment to shock to certitude to sensation, manifold short scenes eclectically yet straightforwardly stitched together with (en)lightninglike speed and ornate dishevelled awareness.
Fascinated, 'twas I.
I've often thought these films don't focus enough on Transformers, but Last Knight presents a solid shapeshifting/organic blend, its biological proclivities overwhelming desires to see Transformers discursively deliberating, relevant contributing human factors, caught up in the thick of it, creating solutions intuitively their own.
In fact, the subplot involving Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) was my least favourite part of the film.
The extraordinary examination of British History and its relationship to transforming-lifeforms-from-space easily made up for it though.
I'd love to see Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice during the witching hour.
How did they move those rocks?
They be pretty freakin' huge.
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