Let’s be frank. At this point, five movies of Michael Bay-directed
robotic mayhem into the franchise, most potential moviegoers don’t need me
or anyone else to tell them whether or not to see Transformers: The
Last Knight. As the last two installments both topped the
billion-dollar mark at the global box office—the first has the smallest take at
$709 million—this may well be the most “critic proof” franchise in all of
franchise-dom. It basically prints money regardless of brutal reviews. And when
this one dominates the box office, it’s sure to be the latest bullet in the
studio’s “movie critics don’t matter” gun. (Despite earlier this summer when
they placed the blame for the underperforming Baywatch and
Pirates of the Caribbean: Johnny Depp Earns a Paycheck
squarely at the feet of those fun-hating critics they didn’t make the movies
for anyway.)
