Michael Bay is an American director known for high-octane action spectacles, particularly the Transformers franchise, which he has shepherded through multiple instalments of giant robots and explosive set pieces. I have reviewed 5 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.0★
By 2014, the Transformers franchise had become something of a cultural phenomenon in its own right, and not entirely for flattering reasons. The first film, which you can read about in Macca's review of Transformers (2007), arrived with genuine novelty, translating a beloved 1980s toy line and animated
Rating: 2.0★
By 2011, the Transformers franchise had already established itself as one of the defining commercial forces of late-2000s Hollywood, for better or worse. The first film, which you can read Macca's thoughts on Transformers (2007), was a reasonably fun if overlong piece of summer blockbuster fare. Its
Rating: 2.5★
By 2009, Michael Bay had already established himself as Hollywood's most reliable purveyor of organised chaos, a filmmaker whose work divides audiences as reliably as his editing divides scenes. After the enormous commercial success of Transformers (2007), a sequel was never in doubt. What followed was a production
Rating: 2.5★
There are certain franchises that define a particular moment in Hollywood history, and the Transformers series is a fairly clear example of what blockbuster filmmaking looked like in the mid-2000s. The property itself began life as a line of Hasbro toys in the early 1980s, quickly followed by a
Genre Action
★★★ — Armageddon (1998)
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