Transformers: The Last Knight / theater

Where to begin? The core of the story sounded very interesting. But this movie has issues.... and most of it trying to explain itself about the Transformers ties to Earth, Quintessa/Qunitessants and their motives for bringing Cybetron to Earth, how Unicron is on/in Earth, the Witwicka--the lineage of Witwikis from Merlin onward..., the ramifications of Cybertron hitting Earth like it did in the movie. Then while the cinematics of the Transformers universe were great it does bring into question why there were overly lengthy action sequences in between plot points, where did Optimus go for half the movie, how he got to the Core later but left earlier than the assisting humans, the overuse of military in action scenes, the almost tacked on for effect Anthony Hopkins, the weird relationship the female scientist had with her parents and the soft sell of her and Yeager hooking up.

Honestly, aside from cinematic license to do some stuff with the story, some of the elements brought up in this movie have me questioning my knowledge (primarily of G1 animated show and G1 movie with side steps into a few of the newer animated series) about the relationship of Quintessa/Quintessnts and their formation Transformers, who Cybertron is, who Unicron is, and several other ties them and Earth. IMO, the only movie worse in the series is 2. I found 1 and 3 to be my favorites and I generally liked 4.