Full of misfiring humour, inappropriately sadistic violence, and paddle-pool shallowness.
Bad Boys II (2003)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:35
Rotten:115
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Two and a half hours of explosions and witless banter.
Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $138,396,624
Synopsis: The boys are back and badder than ever. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay for another exhilarating and high-intensity action... The boys are back and badder than ever. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay for another exhilarating and high-intensity action adventure in Bad Boys II. The danger quotient is heightened and so are the laughs in this new installment as Miami narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) become part of a high-tech task force assigned to stem the flood of designer ecstasy into Miami. They unwittingly uncover a deadly conspiracy involving a ruthless drug lord, played by Jordi Mollà, who is determined to expand his empire and take control of the city's burgeoning narcotics trade, killing anyone who stands in his way. To make matters worse, Marcus' beautiful sister Syd (Gabrielle Union), an undercover DEA agent, gets caught in the crossfire, forcing our heroes to the edge of the law. The assignment takes on further complications when romantic sparks start to fly between Mike and Syd, driving her overly protective brother completely around the bend. But Marcus and Mike must overcome their differences to bring down Tapia. And when Syd's cover is jeopardized, it's up to the Bad Boys to rescue her. Columbia Pictures Presents A Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Production A Michael Bay Film Bad Boys II starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The film co-stars Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle and Joe Pantoliano. Bad Boys II is directed by Michael Bay. The screenplay is by Ron Shelton and Jerry Stahl. The story is by Marianne Wibberley & Cormac Wibberley and Ron Shelton. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The executive producers are Mike Stenson, Chad Oman and Barry Waldman. The director of photography is Amir Mokri. The production designer is Dominic Watkins. The film is edited by Mark Goldblatt, A.C.E., Thomas A. Muldoon and Roger Barton. The special visual effects are by Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. The costume designers are Deborah L. Scott and Carol Ramsey. The music is by Trevor Rabin. The music supervision is by Kathy Nelson and Bob Badami. [More]
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Molla, Gabrielle Union
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Molla, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano, Peter Badalamenti
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Story: Marianne Wibberley, Ron Shelton, Cormac Wibberley
Screenwriter: Ron Shelton, Jerry Stahl
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Reviews for Bad Boys II
An unapologetic, unreconstructed actioner that's as entertaining as it is politically retrograde.
. The most visually and aurally offensive film since Mariah Carey's Glitter .
Bad Boys 2 não é apenas uma comédia policial excessivamente longa e nada engraçada; é, também, um filme que deixa evidente a terrível falta de caráter, humanidade e bom senso de seus realizadores.
Hey, I guess hostile racist homophobes need to be entertained as well.
There's basically nothing to it at all, which is kind of clever since the film is two-and-a-half hours long (it feels like five episodes of a TV series).
... So bad that it rockets through the gauntlet of insipidity and tastelessness and emerges on the other side to become good, only to ricochet off the wall of cinematic decency and become bad all over again.
...yet another brainless and boisterous formula that’s sure to make one’s hair curl on their arms. Bad Boys II is a vacuous vehicle that struts its stuff without any convincing ounce of concrete involvement whatsoever.
The action is so consistently incoherent and mind-numbing that it wears you down to a pulp before the halfway mark.
Even though I occasionally admired the film's hallucinogenic grandeur and bold scope, the majority of Bad Boys II feels like a bad trip.
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