''Rise of the Beasts' is unbothered with justifying or explaining its plot, which is refreshing next to so many flimsy sci-fi concepts that are teased out with grave, dour world-building,' John Wenzel writes.
Taking a live-action “Transformers” movie seriously feels absurd. And yet, that’s what director Michael Bay did with his abysmal reboots of the toy brand starting in 2007, leaving an entire generation of would-be fans with the sense that these shapeshifting robots are as flat, joyless and violent as Superman and Batman are in the hands of director Zack Snyder.
The latest in a decades-long string of ads for parent company Hasbro, “Rise of the Beasts” expands the Transformers world to the time-traveling Maximals, or robots who look like cheetahs, gorillas, birds and rhinos. They share the Autobots’ mission to save the world from the nebulously evil Unicron, whose minions search for a key hidden on Earth to bring Unicron here to devour us.
Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback star as reluctant, world-saving partners in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.” Anthony Ramos carries the movie with a mixture of innocent determination, amazement and self-doubt as reluctant hero Noah Diaz. The Brooklyn native and ex-soldier is looking to raise money for his sick little brother, Kris , who’s battling a chronic illness. Diaz grates against the establishment and gravitates toward crime to pay the bills, but ends up stealing a car that turns out to be the Autobot Mirage .
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