This movie, along with other examples like Speed (Speed is better, put your guns down), is an excellent action flick because 1/ It doesn't itself seriously at all and 2/ His rhythm is upbeat and just never stops. It's an uninterrupted flow of self-assumed idiocy and action. There is no dicking around. On the trivia side, they broadcast it on TV the other day, and I was surprised to found that the mid-movie advertisements contained a lot of products targeted to women. I assumed the film was targeted to a more testosterone-fueled audience. As it happens, after checking on its IMDb rating stats, I saw that the movie has a higher average rating from females viewers than from males viewers. It looks like Michael Bay, the man himself, with his Aerosmith romance between Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, convinced not only boys, but even more effectively, girls. There is something spectacular in that.
This movie, along with other examples like Speed (Speed is better, put your guns down), is an excellent action flick because 1/ It doesn't itself seriously at all and 2/ His rhythm is upbeat and just never stops. It's an uninterrupted flow of self-assumed idiocy and action. There is no dicking around. On the trivia side, they broadcast it on TV the other day, and I was surprised to found that the mid-movie advertisements contained a lot of products targeted to women. I assumed the film was targeted to a more testosterone-fueled audience. As it happens, after checking on its IMDb rating stats, I saw that the movie has a higher average rating from females viewers than from males viewers. It looks like Michael Bay, the man himself, with his Aerosmith romance between Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, convinced not only boys, but even more effectively, girls. There is something spectacular in that.