It’s getting harder and harder to feign enthusiasm for Michael Bay’s Transformers films the further we get into the franchise. It’s like we started with a genuinely decent film in 2007, but each subsequent entry into the series is just slightly worse. Now, at movie number five, it’s just getting more difficult to care.

Maybe it’s Bay’s disregard for a consistent continuity for the series or its mechanics. Maybe its just the fact that these movies keep getting longer and longer. Maybe it’s that the films genuinely lost something once Shia LaBeouf left them.

I mean all of that.

Either way, here come more explosions. And don’t get me wrong, Transformers films absolutely need lots of explosions to work. The problem is they need more than that to keep my attention.

Transformers: The Last Knight comes out June 23rd.

Does it actually get one? I’m not really sure – but the music throughout sure wants us to think something deep is happening here. As this is a Transformers film directed by Michael Bay, I’m fairly confident that it’ll turn out to be fairly shallow.

But hey – way to earn your paycheck trailer editor.

I’m pretty sure if I piece together all of the trailers for Transformers: The Last Knight I could piece together the entire plot of the film, but I leave that sort of super cut up to someone with more time on their hands. What it comes down to is that this film is going to be more of the same from the series. If you happen to like that, you’ll be pleased. I, on the other hand, have gotten a bit tired of the routine, and this trailer isn’t convincing me that anything has changed.

Transformers: The Last Knight comes out June 23rd.

The new trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight landed yesterday, focusing on Isabela Moner’s character Izabella. Izabella is a young girl who has been apparently spending a lot of her time in a junkyard with robots — I mean, that’s what I got out of the trailer at least.

Honestly, I think someone must have pointed out to Michael Bay that the Star Wars franchise has been doing really well with women in lead action roles, and as an attempt to market to young girls this is his “close enough.” I mean, she could be a great character if handled well, but I’m not sure how much I actually trust Michael Bay to do it.

I guess we’ll find out when Transformers: The Last Knight comes out June 23, 2017.

If you took footage from every science fiction and superhero from across the last twenty years and mashed them all up to create a single trailer which would both convey visual spectacle yet have zero depth… you’d get the new trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight. And since Michael Bay’s Transformers movies thus far have usually been all visual and zero depth, I guess that’s unsurprising.

There was a time where I rejoiced at seeing Autobots and Decepticons on the big screen, and I really did enjoy the first couple of entries into this franchise. But the fourth movie was six parts boring to one part creepy, and it’s hard for me to get excited about yet another foray into this particular Transformers’ universe.

And, I’m loathe to admit this, I kinda miss Shia.

Whether we want it to or not, Transformers: The Last Knight comes out June 23, 2017.