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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

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Full of misfiring humour, inappropriately sadistic violence, and paddle-pool shallowness.

Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
10/28/03
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette

'An appalling, spirit-sapping grind of a movie.'

Full Review Source: Teletext | comment Comment
10/24/03
Paul Arendt
Paul Arendt
Teletext

An unapologetic, unreconstructed actioner that's as entertaining as it is politically retrograde.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
09/30/03
Nev Pierce
Nev Pierce
BBC

. The most visually and aurally offensive film since Mariah Carey's Glitter .

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (Australia) | comment Comment
09/22/03
Shannon J. Harvey
Shannon J. Harvey
Sunday Times (Australia)
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Full Review Source: Sunday Times (Australia) | comment Comment
09/22/03
Sunday Times (Australia)
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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.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
09/21/03
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Hey, I guess hostile racist homophobes need to be entertained as well.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
09/20/03
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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).

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
08/10/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
N/R

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08/09/03
Boston Phoenix
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Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/09/03
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Over-loud, overlong and stunning in its crassness and laziness.

Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | comment Comment
08/05/03
Adam Nayman
Adam Nayman
eye WEEKLY

The Boys aren't what's bad - it's the movie.

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
08/03/03
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

... 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.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
07/30/03
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
N/R

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07/28/03
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Nitrate Online

...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.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
07/28/03
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

The action is so consistently incoherent and mind-numbing that it wears you down to a pulp before the halfway mark.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
07/27/03
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Even though I occasionally admired the film's hallucinogenic grandeur and bold scope, the majority of Bad Boys II feels like a bad trip.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
07/27/03
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

In a painful way, these Boys are really 2 bad.

Full Review Source: Sun Newspapers of Cleveland | comment Comment
07/25/03
Gerry Shamray
Gerry Shamray
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

Man, what a long movie.

Full Review Source: Broomfield Enterprise | comment Comment
07/24/03
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Broomfield Enterprise

[A] numbing extravaganza of cynical dumbness.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
07/24/03
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly
 
 
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