The new Transformers movie is fun and insane, but way too long

Last Knight is the fifth Transformers film and Wahlberg’s second. Anyone? Paramount? Spielberg? Oh who are we kidding, Steven is cashing all those checks from the global ticket sales from the last Transformers film. And trust me, there is plenty in The Last Knight for anyone to go yard with. And the story also brings everything together to the present time.

This time around, the humans are at war with the Transformers and it’s up to an unlikely alliance to help save the world. The latest iteration of the “Transformers” series hits theaters on June 22. Bay never misses an opportunity to load up his film with unnecessary junk as if simply padding the already excessive runtime somehow gives the movie an “epic” scope. His Decepticon rival Megatron is nowhere to be seen and a law has been passed making the Transformers illegal (no, do not expect Bay to be making any trenchant political statements about refugees and immigrants here).

Mark Wahlberg insists that if director Michael Bay is really finished with the Transformers franchise, so is he.

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In an interview with Collider, Bonaventura, who has produced all the Transformers films and is overseeing its many spin-offs, dished out details on the Bumblebee movie. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. The third film took an unwelcome turn toward superhero-style sturm und drang, and 2014’s “Age of Extinction“, which jettisoned LaBeouf and introduced Mark Wahlberg, proved a toxic mix of kid-friendly laughs and nasty violence. When astronomer Sir Edmund Burton (Anthony Hopkins) realizes the apocalypse is imminent, he sends his robot butler Cogman (Jim Carter) to fetch Cade, and the aging Transformer historian then introduces him to the pouty lipped Viviane Wembly (Laura Haddock), an Oxford professor who’s devoted her life to debunking English myths.

Hey, so, there’s a new Transformers movie in the works (try to contain your excitement), and not the current two hour explosion fest that’s being pushed by Paramount. And also I think the audience wants something different all the time, let’s keep them interested.

Jamie O’Rourke, 36, was cast to appear in the Hollywood feature film, Transformers: The Last Knight, which is due to be released this month. And it’s not just a “Why?” pertaining to the numerous plotholes, shortcuts, character decisions, and everything else that takes place in The Last Knight.