There are two modes for Michael Bay: The playful mode of him having fun. This is the Bay of Bad Boys and Transformers. And a serious mode. That is the Michael Bay of films like Ambulance, Pearl Harbor and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The latter of which is his most serious film ever.

13 Hours is him being serious the whole way through ( minus a cameo from his dog ).

Bay used everything from Film cameras to GoPros to Sony A7S ( a small digital mirror-less camera with surprisingly good low-light performance ) to shoot that film. Due to the story happening mostly at night, he could not do it in a golden-hour and required the cameras to work on full low light mode, which usually means, either boosting ISO ( making the shot noisier ) or boosting exposure times per frame ( making the motion blur stronger ). Both of which you can see in the film. Also because cameras like A7S are tiny and Bay likes to operate the camera handheld, there is not a lot of weight in the camera itself to smooth-out the motion. Making for very noticeable kind of shaky feel to some of the shots.

If you've seen the Tarantino picture ( where she is like 10 ) you know how fucking good she is. She is so good, the plot hangs on her being fucking awesome to inspire fucking Leonardo DiCaprio to act better. Tarantino knew what he was doing, getting her for his film. And obviously Spielberg also needed to have a shot at working with her. Where she also had like an insane performance.