Bay shows his typical strong competence in the moment-to-moment of this movie, as with his others. Each shot looks good, each conversation is snappy and easy to watch (sometimes they're even funny), each action scene is pretty clear and easy to follow (and cool). But he also shows his typical lack of competence with the movie's big picture. The massive chunk of non-stop action that makes up the bulk of your time watching actually wears you down after a while. It goes on for so long that you briefly forget what their mission is before it mercifully comes back into focus (reluctantly). Why didn't we get a back story for the doctor? Overall you get the standard Michael Bay time here. Pretty fun and peppy, looks great, too long, story ain't much. I would for sure watch a sequel, so it's at the very least that good.