Reviews! Reviews! Reviews!
- Jul 16, 2017
- 2 min read
I have read a handful of professional reviews on “Transformers- The Last Knight”.
“...loud, poorly stretched plot, loaded with bland character, CGI laden action sequences mounted through senseless direction”
--- by economictimes. indiatimes.com
“...mostly hollow and cacophonous”
--by Sandy Schaefer, Screen Rant
“2017's most toxic movie”
--by Peter Travers, The Rolling Stone
“...gorgeous summer blockbuster with no soul”
--by Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge
“An utterly incomprehensible plot makes the fifth installment of the movie a wearisome two-and-a-half hours for viewers.”
--by Rashid Irani, Hindustan Times
“The Last Knight is everything the first wasn't. It represents the worst, most self-indulgent and is, despite not being the worst of the lot [that honour still belongs to Age of Distinction], a monumentally overblown film.”
--by Hilary Kimuyu, Nairobi News
If you are an English Language student looking for a perfect example of “echo chamber” effect for your next Expository or GP essay, read movie reviews. You will definitely find loads of similar thoughts couched in different words and phrases and, even different languages—whichever language you choose.
Summing up the professional reviews from the “echo chamber”, it comes down to the same gripe that has been ricocheted around in the last decade, that is, for as long as Bay's been directing Transformers movies: Too Much Style, Too Little Substance.
In my opinion, however, “Transformers- The Last Knight” is one of the most exciting pieces in the movie series. The moment it began, it had me at the edge of my seat. Since then, there was not a lull moment when the viewers could pause and recollect the previous scene or reconnect with previous installments. You just got to push right to the end to get the answer you want.
Regarding its having too many subplots served up as “an incoherent mess” (by Akhil Arora, gadgets.ndtv.com), well, I would say “Transformers- The Last Knight” offers the length and breath as well as depth for me to muse over other possibilities and draw the parallels across different trajectories.
Heard of intertextuality, anyone?
Instead of pretending you young readers have no idea what it is and/or have no means to find out for yourself,
Instead of expending space here to write a paragraph or two of its definition (which is made abundantly clear in Google),
Instead of evoking the name 'Julia Kristeva' – the poststructuralist who coined the term — just to give this piece of writing a so-called sober academic appearance,
I shall illustrate it with another three posts on the idea of Intertextuality in “Transformers-The Last Knight”.
“SSS”— So, Stay on Site.
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