It's been five years since Travis Knight did the unimaginable and actually made a great live-action Transformers film with Bumblebee. Now, director Steven Caple, Jr. (Creed II) is taking a swing at building upon the soft reset that Knight pulled off with Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. While Caple is able to keep the chaos mostly contained, unlike Michael Bay, some of the same problems with the Bay films come roaring back, and the goodwill with longtime fans that Travis Knight built up is tarnished. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts opens with a scene that longtime toy fans have dreamed about for decades: the coming of Unicron (voiced by Coleman Domingo), complete with Vince DiCola's 1986 theme from Transformers: The Movie, as the Dark God of the Transformers universe sets his sights on devouring an unknown planet populated by the Maximals, a faction of good Transformers from the far future.…  Read More