He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
Director Michael Bay has never taken this long between movies. His most recent film was the criminally underrated action-thriller Ambulance, which was released in 2022. 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.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Michael Bay Reunited With John Krasinski on a Hit Streaming Show
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Image via Paramount PicturesWe’re talking, of course, about 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The film also featured James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, and David Denman. It received mixed reviews, and is now sitting at a 51% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a comparatively mature and restrained effort from Michael Bay, albeit one that can’t quite boast the impact its fact-based story deserves.” The movie will join the Starz library this November. Following its release, Bay and Krasinski teamed up on Prime Video’s Jack Ryan series, which concluded its run with a feature film this year. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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