Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Theaters:  9 June 2023

Streaming:  25 July 2023

Runtime:  127 minutes

Genre:  Action — Adventure — Sci-Fi

els:  4.0/10

IMDB:  6.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  52/100

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  91/100

Metacritic Metascore:  42/100

Metacritic User Score:  5.4/10

Awards: — Nominated for Best Summer Blockbuster Trailer

Directed by: Steven Caple Jr.

Written by:  Joby Harold–Darnell Metayer–Josh Peters–Eric Hoeber–Jon Hoeber

Music by:  Jongnic Bontemps

Cast:  Anthony Ramos–Dominque Fishback–Peter Cullen–Ron Perlman–Peter Dinklage

Film Locations:  United States–Peru–Canada

Budget:  $195-200 million

Worldwide Box Office:  $436.7 million

Maximals, robotic animals, join forces with the Autobots to battle the ruthless mechanoid Terrorcons who are attempting to bring their master, Unicron, a planet eating god, to Earth.

This is the seventh ‘Transformer’ franchise movie with two more in development plus an animated prequel planned for 2024 release. It is debatable whether the franchise can survive this painful ‘Fall of the Beast’. If it does survive, they need to bring in a whole new crew for the subsequent releases and relegate this movie’s crop of personalities to daytime TV or better yet, Saturday morning cartoons.

There is absolutely no talent or passion on display anywhere in this movie. There is no direction apparent, just a series of shots randomly glued together. There is no acting, just the reading of lines for both the human and the voice over roles. The screenplay was a committee effort of giggling adolescents. Even the CGI scenes are inferior to the standards of today. This is not a $200 million movie.

If you have moved past the age and mental maturity of a 12-year-old, this movie is not something you need to spend 2 hours of your life on.

The Transformer Movies:

• Transformers – 2007 – Metacritic Metascore 61 – $710 million box office
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – 2009 – Metacritic Metascore 35 – $837 million box office
• Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon – 2011 – Metacritic Metascore 42 – $1.124 billion box office
• Transformer: Age of Extinction – 2014 – Metacritic Metascore 32 – $1.104 billion box office
• Transformers: The Last Knight – 2017 – Metacritic Metascore 27 – $605 million box office
• Bumblebee – 2018 – Metacritic Metascore 66 – $468 million box office
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – 2023 – Metacritic Metascore 42 – $437 million box office