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 1998 "testosterone cocktail," about oil riggers recruited to save the Earth from an asteroid, earned three Oscar nominations in tech categories, and a fourth for the power ballad, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." On average, however, the critics were not impressed.
“Bay's filmmaking style is so frantic and frenetic that it's often impossible to figure out exactly what is happening.” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times