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.
This 2007 film was not the first Transformers movie—a 1986 animated feature was—but it was the first live-action rendering, as well as the first Bay movie to score generally positive reviews. Though critics didn't find it perfect, they did appreciate "the sheer visceral rush of mega action."
“The script may have rubbery legs, but the action is rock-hard.” —Ian Nathan, Empire