I typically enjoy Michael Bay films and I'm well aware of the fact that he loves jump cuts and choppy editing. That being said; I didn't get past the first ten minutes of this mess of a film. It starts off with a chase scene that is infantile at best and nauseating at worst.

First the nausea; there were so many jump cuts, the editing was all over the place that it was really annoying and not at all fun to watch, not if you're older than twelve anyway.

The infantile; so, we have Ryan Reynolds and some other actors who I didn't or couldn't recognize because the camera barely focused on them, in a chase scene that made no sense and looked more like a bad video game than an action movie. There was a guy running across roofs, not sure why except that it looked cool, and four people in a car running from the bad guys and engaging in witty repartee while scores of innocent bystanders are killed in terrible ways. I suppose it was supposed to be cool but in fact it was just infantile and pretty offensive. At one point you have the female doctor (we know she's a doctor because of the idiotic intro graphics for each character, sort of like a comic book for children) tell the driver angrily that if he hits one more person she's getting out of the car. They then proceed to hit about a dozen more people without a word from her. Maybe this movie would have worked as a cartoon?

And of course it was made in 2019 so you just have to have the hard-ass but beautiful female agent who's a crack shot from a moving car even though she appears to be grievously wounded...please.

I imagine this movie would be a teenagers wet dream but for adults....I bailed before the first chase scene even ended. The movie may have gotten better after that but I seriously doubt it and I had better things to do with my time then hang around to find out. While Michael Bay will never be confused with any of the great directors he usually makes fun movies, he needs to dial back a bit on the jump cuts and shaky camera nonsense, and possibly go back to making movies for adults.

And as far as the high reviews for this movie, even though there aren't many, you're entitled to your opinion but there's no need to insult those who disagree with it. For those of us who hated this movie it's not that we don't "understand modern cinema", it's not that the movie industry has "passed us by", it's just that we didn't like the movie. if you need to denigrate, dismiss or insult others opinions while writing a movie review you seriously need to grow up.