I figured ill play with titles for all of my redpill movie reviews.

SPOILERS

So they give us not one, but two strong independent cunty female characters to dislike in this movie. The first we meet as 4 dopey boys sneak into a restricted area. They set off alarms and evil government bots attack. The girl shows up, is a genius in tech obviously, and uses skill and strategy while barking orders at the cowering boys and get them to safety. The boys are curious about her and her small robot. She sneers at and insults them; one boy is smitten with her while she insults him to his face. Message: Boys are stupid incompetent simps. Girls are smart brave badasses who don't have time for you. It was hard cringe. I wonder how young boys in the audience felt watching this franchise shit on their primary consumers while kissing the asses of all dozen girls on earth who care about transformers.

Second empowered woman is introduced in the middle of a polo match with men where she outperforms them all, obviously. Then she zooms off to her job as a museum tour guide, where she tells visitors that all of the great men of English history were bullshit myths to give people hope in a condescending tone. No idea why this is even in the movie. She's a descendant of someone who can activate a powerful weapon. Only reason she's relevant to the story. She talks down to men and reminds everyone that she's a woman in stem who's better than you at every opportunity. Forced romantic interest with Mark wahlberg, who is actually consistently a straightforward and cool masculine character through the whole movie. I'm actually amazed they allowed him to exist.

Other than the absurd feminism of skinny women running around and fighting alongside men, there was a lot of painfully transparent, anti border, pro mass migration themes in the first half of the movie. Basically the world governments consider all transformers to be illegal since they fucked up the earth for 5 movies. They are detained or destroyed when they fall to earth. This is portrayed as unfair because #notalltransformers, but optimus has disappeared and there are no friendly autobots around. Then Castro is mentioned as being the only one who allows transformers to roam freely in Cuba. Not kidding. Castro is the good guy with an open border policy. Pure cancer.

Now for the redemption. Anthony hopkins was amazing in his role, as corny as it was at times. Mark wahlberg was great. While the first half of the movie tested my ability to resist walking out... the second half, as usual for a transformers movie, was nonstop gorgeous battles with military and giant robots. Magnificent. Not just the special effects but the cinematography and sets were just pristine. Jaw dropping. I'm a sucker for visually stunning action. I know it doesn't justify such a shit story, but I felt I should mention the only good thing about it. It looked awesome