“Grounded.” “Genuine human emotion.” These are not terms one typically associates with a movie about giant robots from space, but with reviews starting to pour in for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, it seems the franchise is taking a new approach in its seventh installment. That approach seems to be meeting the approval of critics, who so far have given the film the second-best Rotten Tomatoes score of the entire franchise after 2018’s Bumblebee.
Director Steven Caple Jr., who comes to the Transformers franchise after directing another notably grounded and character-focused franchise film Creed II, says it was part of the plan from the beginning to make this the most human Transformers movie yet.
