Tag: michael bay

Michael Bay at War 13 Hours avoids the public, political quagmire that followed the events of Benghazi. With a few lines, whiffs of greater conspiracy find their way into …

Extinction Incomplete In back-to-back viewing, the Transformers films blend mindlessly together. Blame their formula, which, even with different casting in Age of Extinction, still features a geeky intellectual and …

Darkening Logic Where the first two Transformers preached from a hyper-militaristic podium, Dark of the Moon softens to a more centrist angle. The aim is a younger audience. Older, …

Propaganda Meets the Eye American helicopters fly in front of sunsets. Warships churn on ocean waters. Slow motion pans of missiles and the ensuing explosions act as a show …

Please be the last The best thing said for Transformers: The Last Knight is Anthony Hopkins’ role. The great Oscar-winning Anthony Hopkins, in among a bevy of popcorn chewing …

Michael Bay stages a summer action film around the politicized events of Benghazi – or in simpler terms, 13 Hours is a Michael Bay summer action film. His ill-placed …

“Mutant Teenage Turtle Ninjas” still sounds better anything in this movie Overwrought, illogical, and even uncomfortable, this Michael Bay-produced reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a hard misfire. …

If it's pedestrian to say that Bay's latest directorial example of hyper real, financial egotism is merely a bunch of robots shooting each other, sorry. It just is.

Ninja Turtles is abrasively scattered.

The overwhelming urge to punch someone responsible for this narrative remains, characters in this series apparently raised on these films alone.

It seems wrong to talk about the action first, The Island the closest thing to a thought-provoking work Micheal Bay was ever involved with

Megatron has teeth. He is the villain of the Transformers movies (a bit character in this sequel), and the only one of these robots from space with rows of …