The Rock is regularly held up to Bays critics as proof hes capable of making a great movie, and its a hard argument to deny. The film has all the signature Bay-isms people know and love while also featuring excellent performances and for a change a solid script, which had writers like Aaron Sorkin and Quentin Tarantino chipping in lines of dialogue. Sean Connery and Nic Cage make for a great if unusual buddy cop team-up, and they both have a fun time with the juicy dialogue they're given. Ed Harris makes for a surprisingly complex villain, and the film might be one of the only times that audiences actually cared about the characters in a Bay movie. Bays talent for mayhem (or is that Bayhem?) gives people all the action they could ever need, with the ambush of the SEAL team and the Hummer chase through San Francisco being the standout setpieces. Bay has yet to make another film that holds together the way The Rock does, but while he's still around there's always a chance he'll recapture the magic he showed here. What one of Michael Bays movies is your personal favourite? Would you have picked another film for the top spot? Let us know in the comments below.
