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Love it!
Once again the bad boys are at it. Martin is still just as funny, and Will just as sexy. Needless to say, they still solve the crime. Entertaining film worth your time to watch.

Action overpowers Plot
I truly enjoyed Bad Boys 1. I thought it was funny, action-packed, and had a decent story. It's a shame that Bad Boys 2 decided to go the all-action route and limit it's humor and storyline.

Many of the original characters return, including Will Smith as Mike Lowrey and Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett. Marcus has joined his captain, played by the always funny Joe Pantoliano, and some of his comrades in denouncing violence and trying to control his anger. Lowrey, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. If he doesn't get to shoot at someone, it was a bad day. In this installment, the men find themselves gunning on Johnny Tapia, a local man believed to be tied to an import of ecstasy. Along the way, Marcus discovers that his sister, a DEA agent purportedly stuck to a desk from 9-5, is actually an undercover agent also trying to bring down Tapia. To complicate matters even further, Mike and his sister are having an affair from a chance meeting in New York a month ago. The storyline is fine, and the character interaction is great, but the action scenes appear to come out of nowhere and serve no real purpose in this film.

Without the overabundance of car chases and shootings, the movie would be 100 minutes instead of 150 minutes. What disapoints me the most is that Michael Bay, the director, appeared to put more thought into setting up and destroying things then he did in actually devising a plot that wasn't paper-thin and reminiscent of every body-cop movie since Lethal Weapon. The extras on disc two prove this. Every featurette talks about the action sequences and how they were set up and pulled off. While they were cool, they were also unecessary and took away from the main focus of this movie.

I wouldn't recommend this movie unless you want to see a long movie with a ton of car chases and no real plot.

Bloated excess
As an action fan and a fan of Michael Bay, I was looking forward to seeing this. Unfortunately, I have to say I was disappointed with BAD BOYS II. It's not a terrible film, but it could've been better.

VISUALS - an impressive production. Some of the best photography I've seen in years. Excellent color. Miami looks fantastic.

ACTION - Pretty good. The car chases are the highlights. The shootouts were a little weak but not bad. Lots and lots of explosions.

PLOT - Not much to be found but does the job.

COMEDY - I didn't find it too funny. Just a couple of mild laughs. That anger management joke was rehashed too much.

CONTENT - way over the top. It tries to be shocking. The hardest "R-rated" mainstream action movie in a while. Sex, drugs, lots of cursing, homosexuality references, a dead naked girl, rats having sex, gun violence, dismemberment, a barrel with sliced off body parts in it, going inside corpses and pulling out organs, etc., etc. Make sure the kids stay home for this one.

LENGTH - at 2 hours and 20 minutes, this movie is just way too long. You could shave 40 minutes off this one without losing anything.

SOUNDTRACK - subpar. Nothing memorable.

OVERALL - the action was cool, but the tone of the film is cruel, and this made it not as fun and entertaining as it should've been. With a shorter running time, less crass content, and some funnier dialogue, this would've been a solid 4 star action film.

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