Michael Bay’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
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Michael Bay has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Rock.
Recurring themes

Battleship
2012
Thriller · Action

Skyfire
2019
Action · Adventure

2012
2009
Action · Adventure

Sky Fighters
2005
Action · Adventure

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
2011
Action · Thriller

Geostorm
2017
Action · Science Fiction

Ashfall
2019
Action · Adventure

Tiger Zinda Hai
2017
Action · Adventure

The Rock
1996 · Movie · Director
Top 6%Max · Included

Bad Boys
1995 · Movie · Director
Top 16%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Transformers
2007 · Movie · Director
Top 23%Hulu · Included

The Island
2005 · Movie · Director
Top 23%Paramount+ · Included

Bad Boys II
2003 · Movie · Director
Top 25%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Ambulance
2022 · Movie · Director
Top 25%Netflix · Included
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Dir. Michael Bay · With John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Dominic Fumusa
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck

Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Téa Leoni

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Mark Ryan

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà

Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza González
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale

After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Peter Cullen

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Peter Cullen
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie

Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Mark Wahlberg, Laura Haddock, Peter Cullen

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Mark Wahlberg, Peter Cullen, Stanley Tucci