The plot of “The
Last Knight” as reviewed by Owen
Gleiberman, Variety.com, turns on the apocalypse which offers the usual frenzied of events.
In the epic height, the visuals tend to mean more than the meaning, and here the world-destroying energy on hand takes the form
of a corrosive weapon that looks like gigantic floating shards of cardboard
packing debris.
It’s all pleasingly spectacular, and also rather empty at
least, until Optimus Prime returns to his true self, his words spoken by Peter
Cullen in a voice of such deep rich square nobility that, coming after nearly
two-and-a-half hours of hellbent robot-clanking decadence, he seems a
cathartically old-fashioned figure. He reminds you that there are moments when
this series is capable of making you think that you like it.
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