Story line is clunky and doesn’t make for a compelling film. Action is average at best. Human scenes are there just to advance the flimsy story but don’t make anything more exciting.

Excellent movie . I love the beautiful scenarios in Peru 🙌

In the face of creative genocide (if that’s not too harsh a term for it), we should neither be making nor seeing movies like Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

Every shot is sluiced in flat grey light – the action scenes look like gravel in a food processor – while the dialogue is all botched quips and clichés (“Did somebody order backup?” one Transformer smarms while cocking a rocket launcher), and the human characters timidly written nobodies.

Robbie Collin

The Telegraph

It’s an easier-to-follow variation on the template than most of its predecessors, but still one dependent on long-winded exposition dumps. And the character-based material here lacks Bumblebee’s sweetness, coming off as cloyingly manipulative instead.

Brett Buckalew

The A.V. Club