Category: Directed by Michael Bay
-
Part special effects spectacular, part protracted romantic melodrama has Navy nurse Kate Beckinsale coming between best buds and Army fliers Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. Will they have time to resolve the love triangle as World War II looms and they all get stationed at, you guessed it, Pearl Harbor? Really bad script (by Randall…
-
I’m loathe to say it, but The Rock isn’t bad. Its good qualities are questionable, but it’s not bad. Besides some of the acting, what’s best about the film is how it fuses the action and adventure genres. Bay does his action stuff in traditional adventure settings—there’s a setting straight out of Indiana Jones and…
-
Here’s an idea… take a script from the guy who wrote Midnight Run–I imagine that film had some rewrites from Martin Brest, but George Gallo did come up with it–and turn it into a complete mess. What’s interesting about Bad Boys is what isn’t wrong with it… what nearly works in it…. Michael Bay doesn’t…
-
I thought I could watch Transformers 2, or whatever it’s called, but I can’t. I made it through the first one, maybe because it followed some kind of traditional narrative structure, but the second one is unbearable. It’s just incompetently told. I’ll read plot details and they seem interesting, but there’s no way I’d ever…
-
I know The Island bombed but I can’t believe anyone thought it wouldn’t. It’s incredible such a large budget was given essentially to a future movie–it takes place in 2015 or something, it’s never clear, but there’s a lot of future stuff–and I had no idea it was a future movie. Bay’s got future cars…
The Stop Button 