[Dr Kain]

Just watched Transformers Rise of the Beasts. Of the four Bayformers films I have watched, this was easily the best of them, though that ain't really saying much. It still had a ton of issues like too much focus on human characters that I don't give a crap about and not enough focus on, well, the Maximals. It's called Rise of the Beasts, but the Beast Wars characters were barely even in the film. They did Airrazor dirty as she didn't even transform into robot mode once. Rhinox and Cheeter never said a single word while Primal barely did anything.

Furthemore, the villains were terrible. We've got three evil robots called Terrorcons, who are there just because they're there. They have no arc, no development, nothing. They're there because the Autobots and Maximals can't fight air. And then they have an entire army of generic drones that do nothing but be CGI porn. Why the hell could we not get any actual Predacons from the show? It's like the people behind this movie didn't even bother to watch Beast Wars, they just took some cool toys and made a movie about them.

Yes, you could say that's par for the course for these movies, but people were acting like this was a new coming for the franchise when it was pretty much just more of the same. They also pretend kill Bumblebee, but obviously he isn't going to die since he has to be around to meet Sam in 2007. Oh, and Optimus Prime was an unlikable, racist asshole the entire film. Such a downgrade from what he used to represent.

Overall, while it may be the best live action Transformers film to date, it's comparable to say Iron Man 2 in the MCU.