How Ambulance's Rotten Tomatoes Score Compares to Michael Bay's Other Movies
Michael Bay is back on the big screen again with Ambulance, which has a much different Rotten Tomatoes score than his other movies. After a detour into streaming with 6 Underground, Michael Bay Ambulance takes «Bayhem» back to theaters with better ratings than Bay has seen in a while.
Bay certainly isn't known for a history of strong Rotten Tomatoes scores, despite directing a number of highly popular movies, like Bad Boys, Armaggeddon, and six Transformers films. His iconic approach to creating maximalist over-the-top non-stop action is often considered the epitome of «style over substance» filmmaking, which naturally tends to polarize critics and audiences, simultaneously making iconic movie moments and drawing negative reviews.
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Fortunately for Bay, Ambulance breaks the trend of poor reviews, even though it doesn't seem to change the Bayhem formula. Compared to the rest of Bay's movies in Rotten Tomatoes, Ambulance stands out in a few key ways.
While Michal Bay has directed 15 movies in 17 years, Ambulance is only the second time he's earned a Fresh score — the last was The Rock in 1996 (before Rotten Tomatoes was even invented). With a score of 68 percent, both The Rock and Ambulance are tied for Bay's highest Rotten Tomatoes score ever, with The Rock's 6.7 out of 10 average rating edging out Ambulance's 5.8 out of 10 as the tie-breaker.
The Rock was only Bay's second movie, meaning since 1996 he made 12 movies in a row with «rotten» ratings. With an overall average of 39 percent for his whole filmography, Ambulance's 68 percent is 29 points higher than Bay's average. One of the strangest aspects of Ambulance's Rotten Tomatoes score is its 72 percent Top
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