Wahlberg's second and last appearance in a Transformers film was Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). Video / Paramount Pictures
Michael Bay has decided to put one final, awful exclamation point on 2016.
His new trailer for the fifth Transformers movie is out and it's just as loud and awful as you'd expect.
There's a flying robot dinosaur. There are Nazi flags. There's Mark Wahlberg's stupid confused face. There'ssad electronica with someone singing the words, "Floating in space," while Optimus Prime literally floats in space.
Picking up from the events of the last movie (like that's supposed to matter in these movies), Optimus Prime has gone missing while humans deal with the robots that keep coming and destroying their world.
Yes, after four films all exactly the same, they still haven't come up with a proper way to defend themselves yet.
"One hundred billion trillion planets in the cosmos. You want to know, don't you, why they keep coming here?" an exposition-y old man played by Sir Anthony Hopkins asks as Bay continues to attempt to make this movie about robots punching each other look serious.
Even King Arthur is meant to show up for some reason. Yet, amongst this all, there is no hint of a plot until the trailer's final seconds.
Then we get the huge twist that Bay seems to think will make this movie different from the 612 minutes of fighting robots we've had to endure so far.
Optimus Prime is back, and he's ... wait for it... evil. Gasp! Shock! Horror!
"Forgive me," moans Optimus Prime dramatically as he prepares to murder Bumblebee and Mark Wahlberg, who presumably has a different name in this, but let's be clear, Wahlberg only ever plays Wahlberg.
If you hate yourself and your loved ones and want to spend more than two hours murdering your ear drums, Transformers: The Last Knight is out on June 22.
