Just as one visualizes a lot of images in hyper-slow motion when thinking of the American filmmaker Zack Snyder, if it is his compatriot Michael Bay (b. 1966), it is easy to miss the mind spectacular scenes of action and a good handful of explosions. Because it is very clear that he likes a lot. Just take a look at his filmography to have no doubt about it.
Despite the fact that he has made more video clips than feature films since 1989, from 1995 he was able to enter the narrative of the big screen and, since 2003, he has not stepped on the edges of a set for anything else. With some 4.1 billion dollars in international box office, he is the seventh highest-grossing director . Although his six nominations for the Razzie Awards and his two Golden Raspberries are not taken away by anyone.
As Michael Bay himself told USA Today in June 2009, as a child he used to film at home and put firecrackers on a toy train. “I actually set my room on fire once,” he admitted, amused. “The fire department arrived. It was a small Super 8 movie where aliens were invading us.” And he finished: “That was not fun. I was punished. Two weeks”.
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The opinion of specialized critics on the work of Michael Bay
This is the ranking of Michael Bay's films according to the information consulted in the Rotten Tomatoes area for critics:
La Roca (1996): average score of 6.7 out of 10 in 68 reviews.Ambulance: Plan de escape (2022): average of 5.8 in 216 reviews.Transformers (2007): average of 5, 8 in 227 reviews.13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016): average of 5.5 in 223 reviews.Pain and money (2013): average of 5.4 in 204 critics.La isla (2005): average of 5.4 in 201 reviews.Armageddon (1998): average of 5.3 in 122 reviews.Two Bad Cops (1995): average of 5.1 in 64 reviews.Transformers: Dark of the Moon ( 2011): average of 5 in 263 reviews.6 in the shade (2019): average of 4.8 in 96 critics.Pearl Harbor (2001): average of 4.5 in 193 critics.Two rebel policemen 2 (2003): average of 4.3 in 184 reviews.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): average of 4, 1 in 250c reviews.Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014): average of 4 in 214 reviews.Transformers: The Last Knight (2017): average of 3.5 in 256 reviews.
Rotten Tomatoes Moviegoers Opinion
Anonymous users who vote on Rotten Tomatoes leave us this Michael Bay result:
Ambulance: Getaway Plan: average rating of 4.4 out of 5 with more than 1,000 votes.La Roca: average of 4.1 with more than 250. ooo votes.Transformers: average of 4.1 with more than 250,000 votes.13 Hours: The secret soldiers of Bengasi: average of 4.1 with more than 25,000 votes.Two rebel police officers: average of 3.9 with more than 250,000 votes.Two rebel policemen 2: average of 3.9 with more than 250,000 votes.Armageddon: average of 3.8 with more than 250,000 votes.Pearl Harbor: average of 3.6 with more than 250,000 votes.The Island: average of 3.5 with more than 250,000 votes.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen : average of 3.5 with more than 250,000 votes.6 in the shade: average of 3.4 with over 2,500 votes.Transformers: The Dark Side of the Moon: average of 3.3 with more than 250,000 votes.Transformers: Age of Extinction: average of 3.2 with more than 100,000 votes.Pain and money: average of 3.1 with more than 50,000 votes.Transformers: The Last Knight: average of 2.9 with more than 25,000 votes. Universal
The opinion of IMDb moviegoers on Michael Bay's cinema
On the other hand, here are the numbers that IMDb gives us about what the public thinks of Michael Bay's films:
The Rock: average score of 7.4 out of 10 with 332,439 votes.13 hours: The secret soldiers of Bengasi: average of 7.3 with 137,708 votes.Transformers: average of 7 with 626,239 votes.Two rebel policemen: average of 6.8 with 259,383 votes.The island: average of 6.8 with 313,294 votes.Armageddon: average of 6.7 with 418,595 votes.Two rebel policemen 2: average of 6.6 with 246,635 votes.Pain and money: average of 6.4 with 214,027 votes.Ambulance: Escape plan: average of 6.2 with 24,699 votes.Pearl Harbor: average of 6.2 with 327,544 votes.Transformers: Dark of the Moon: average of 6.2 with 402,224 votes.6 in the shadow: average of 6.1 with 168,426 votes.Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen: average of 5.9 with 402,398 votes.Transformers: Age of Extinction: average of 5.6 with 310,189 votes.Transformers: The Last Knight: average of 5.2 with 147,989 votes.
The opinion of FilmAffinity moviegoers
And, finally, this is the information about Michael Bay provided by FilmAffinity:
The Rock: average rating of 6.8 out of 10 with 58,802 votes.The island: average of 6.2 with 55,695 votes.13 Hours: The secret soldiers of Benghazi: average of 6.2 with 9,305 votes.Pearl Harbor: average of 6 .1 with 73,911 votes.Pain and money: average of 5.8 with 18,754 votes.Two rebellious policemen: average of 5.8 with 53,473 votes.Armageddon: average of 5.7 with 91,770 votes.Transformers: average of 5.7 with 53,939 votes.Two rebel policemen 2: average of 5.6 with 27,025 votes.Ambulance: Escape plan: average of 5.5 with 1,094 votes. Transformers: Dark of the Moon: average of 5.3 with 27,814 votes.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: average of 5.2 with 35,125 votes.6 in the shade: average of 5 with 7,429 votes.Transformers: Age of Extinction: average of 4.5 with 13,164 votes. Transformers: The Last Knight: average of 4.3 with 5,909 votes. Paramount
Conclusions on the best and worst of Michael Bay
Both professional critics and moviegoers who vote on the IMDb and FilmAffinity platforms, but not Rotten Tomatoes, consider that The Rock is the best film by pyrotechnician Michael Bay. For dissidents, however, it is Ambulance: Escape Plan, the last of his to hit theaters. However, it is very possible that, as they vote, their average grade will fall.
What there is no doubt about is which film by the Californian filmmaker should be singled out as the worst. Both critics and users of the three pages have decided to point out Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth about alien robots that has been commissioned before Travis Knight made the spin-off Bumblebee (2018). Absolute unanimity.
