Every Michael Bay Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Michael Bay is Hollywood's go-to director when it comes to making films filled with big explosions, cringe-worthy dialogue, mostly terrible acting and predictable plots. But that doesn't necessarily mean he's bad.

Sure, he's not going to win Best Picture any time soon, and his films certainly lack the depth of a Spielberg or Scorsese flick, but Michael Bay is unabashed when it comes to confronting his critics. He knows his films are gratuitous and bonkers without remorse, and it's hard to deny that his films - no matter how insane or just plain awful - are pretty damn entertaining.

Mostly.

As Bay himself has said in the past: "I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime." Plus, the fact that his films have grossed nearly $7 billion worldwide (even more than James Cameron and Christopher Nolan), it has to be admitted that he's doing something right.

That being said, not all of his films hit quite the same level. They all have some questionable humour, childish scripts and plots which scream out for a sequel (or five) when they really need to be left alone. Others are a little more successful, usually in regard to character and the emotional gravitas of the story.

Whether laughably bad, so-bad-it's-good, or actually quite great, here all of Michael Bay's directed pictures, ranked. Some spoilers follow.

The first of Bay's live-action Transformers sequels takes all the good parts of its predecessor and throws them out the window. Running for two and a half hours, Revenge of the Fallen is the most poorly plotted and inexcusable part of Bay's entire filmography.

Returning lead actors Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel may as well not be there, the film too focused on special effects and making as much senseless action sequences as possible. With no characters able to give the film any heart and crude, off-base humour thrown in for good measure, Revenge only has some so-so voice performances from Hugo Weaving and Peter Cullen to keep it afloat.

But it turns out that's not nearly enough.

Wild, noisy, pointless and without any emotional weight or tension, the film ends up running like a amateur filmmaker's finished product after they're given enough money to make a blockbuster.

The effects are impressive, and perhaps the film's only saving grace. At least, that's the case for the first ten minutes. After that, it's a shambolic onslaught of CGI and fire, with little comprehension for the subject matter or the characters brought to life in the first film.