If you payed any attention to Michael Bay's career up until now you'd know that he continues to have very little subtlety and making modest pictures was never his intention. Netflix also has a noteriety of producing loads and loads of garbage while masking it as something different. So combining the two makes sense, right? It does and it doesn't and having one of the first things you see (followed by slow motion airplane stunts) is the Red Bull logo you know 2 things immediately: 1, this movie is most likely made for teenagers and 2, this movie will be a glorious waste of money while at the same time making more money than is appropriate for something never planned for anything more than mediocre. I will stand by my first statement, as unpopular as it is, because as teenagers we have our lowest tolerance for anything decent so this movie in all it's excess plays exactly to the kind of child-like anger that fills all of us...plus our need to watch stuff explode over and over and over again. And then just about every 2 minutes comes a new product placement. It's crazy, really, because despite being crammed expensive product down our throats one after another it ends up feeling very cheap, very empty, almost like a 125 minutes commercial: cars, beers, clothes, mega-conglomerates of all kinds it goes on and on! Despite all these issues I wanted to hate the movie but Michael Bay has always been a very entertaining director capable of pushing around piles of large money while not making us feel hateful of the waste but instead entertained. Ryan Reynolds is also very charming and fun to watch, the locations are great, and the stunts and special effects seem impossible. The comedy is there as a way to make it easily digestible and seem familiar, although I laughed out loud at maybe only two or three character reactions. So this movie is fun, not great, but it is the true definition of a "movie" a mindless spectacle that should make you smile if you are still human, all other haters must just be very bitter they did not make any money off this transaction themselves. Netflix, once again, appears to be more in the money side of entertainment so it's questionable whether to even really consider them a production company or not but here they made good on their rights to buy this one and show it to us like the good times we deserve.