13 Awesome 2016 Movies Everyone Thought Would Suck

13. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi

Why It Should've Sucked: Michael Bay directing an action movie based on a real-life terrorist attack sounds like its own kind of disaster. After all, when has he ever exercised restraint, tact or taste in his filmography to date?

Why It Was Awesome: 13 Hours proves what kind of movie Bay can make when a good script occasionally (read: very occasionally) slides across his desk. Sure, it brings the expected "America, f*** yeah!" imagery, but impressively Bay keeps politics mostly out of the fray, focusing instead on the humanity of the assault, and his characteristically visually stunning action.

James Badge Dale, John Krasinski and Pablo Schreiber give probably three of the best performances in any of Bay's movies, and though it's a little too long at 144 minutes, it's a brutal, unexpectedly emotional action flick.

Ironically, Bay's best movie in years in fact bombed at the box office. Go figure.