The king has no clothes...

Rating: 1/10 (24 August 2018)

...so stop praising its fabric. Visuals have been done, and better. The rest... I want to think people who consider it thought-provoking are impressionable teenagers. Characters... making the most annoying, two-dimensional, unlikeable set of characters won't make your movie look intellectual or compelling, quite the opposite. Plot holes have been thoroughly described already. This is one of those movies where you end up accepting the fact that whatever happens, happens "because director". At least Michael Bay is honest and doesn't try to cram some shallow intellectual mumbo jumbo into his movies to make himself look smarter than he is. This movie was a waste of time. It's not appealing as an action-adventure movie, it's not appealing as an scifi essay on anything.
Positive reviews of the movie seem to set the 7/10 or 10/10 first and then trying to make up excuses for it, not arguments.
This movie will age very, very badly, when the whole political and ideological grasp that freezes movie makers and critics in fear dissipates.