Director Michael Bay has never gone this long between movies. His most recent film was the 2022 action-thriller Ambulance. Not only has Bay not directed another narrative feature since then, but his future plans remain unclear. There have been reports about him returning to the Transformers franchise, which he launched in 2007 and attempted to reboot in 2014. Ambulance wasn't the first time that Bay attempted to make a non-franchise action movie, nor was it the first time that such an experiment didn't pan out. Now, one of Bay's most underrated movies has been added to the Starz library for a new generation to discover, or for fans of Reacher and Jack Ryan to revisit.
In 2013, having directed three blockbuster Transformers films, he released Pain & Gain, which grossed roughly $85 million worldwide despite featuring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. In 2016, after directing Transformers: Age of Extinction, Bay released another action film aimed at grown-ups. This film had an even more difficult run at the box office, grossing around $70 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million. The movie was based on a real military operation that had made headlines only a few years prior, and marked the action debut of star John Krasinski.
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