‘The Last Knight’ falls flat at the box office

the fifth instalment in the blockbuster franchise from Michael Bay, may have topped the weekend, but all that robot-smashing has gotten a bit rusty at the box office.

The Paramount film, which opened on Wednesday, took in $45 million (Dh165 million) in the US and Canada over the weekend, placing it in the No. 1 spot ahead of returning titles Cars 3 and Wonder Woman. When factored into its five-day debut, The Last Knight grossed a franchise low of $69 million.

That’s just slightly below expectations and well behind its predecessor, Transformers: Age of Extinction, which opened with $100 million over three days in 2014 — making The Last Knight the first movie in the franchise not to open to $100 million or more.