Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

I recently rewatched the first Transformers movie and found myself dozing off halfway through. After the initial awe of watching cars unroll into Autobot bodies faded, I was lulled by the clangs and clicks of robot battles, by Autobot leader Optimus Prime's droning voice, and the predictable beats of the story. After 18 years and seven more Transformers films, the franchise still rigidly holds on to its aged formula: a troubled person discovers their car is an Autobot and gets pulled into a cosmic battle between good and bad over the possession of some Shiny Thing where the stakes are nothing ....