Every Michael Bay Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
Michael Bay cannot be stopped. Though the filmmaker has hinted Transformers: The Last Knight "might" be his final Transformers film as director, he surely isn't done calling "Action!"
To date, Bay's feature films have grossed $2.2 billion domestically, a staggering number that makes him Hollywood's second-most-commercially successful director of all time.
But Bay has been derided by critics, who have taken his films to task for bombast. A survey shows Bay's average Metascore as a director is a weak, yellow-bordering-on-red 44.7. (His overall average career Metascore, including his credits as producer, is even lower: 42.)
Here's a film-by-film look at Bay's work as a director, from his most critically loathed work to the surprising entry that won over most reviewers.
Compared to its predecessors, Age of Extinction was a lightweight at the domestic box office, where it failed to crack $250 million. But Bay (pictured) had the last laugh: The film grossed $1.1 billion worldwide.
“Movies usually try to come together at the end; this one falls apart. If that's Bay intention, then cinema has finally entered its Age of Extinction.” —Richard Corliss, Time