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A Great Action Movie That I Am Very Pleased In Watching!!!
... Well I finally got to see Bad Boys 2 a few weeks ago and I was very pleased. I can't wait for the dvd to come out.

The movie is ACTION packed to say the least. There is action, brief nudity, a lot of cursing, violent and digusting killings, and a lot of drugs. It is not a kid's movie and I was disapointed to see how many people brought their kids with them to see this movie.

Anyway, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence make a great team and yes their jokes were sometimes annoying and dry but not enough to be overshadowed by the really funny scenes. I liked the first Bad Boys film but I really feel that the sequel is much better. I would not be surprised to see a third installment.

If you like action, good special effects and great stunt coordination, this film is for you. I can't wait to watch it again!

A bit much at times, but a solid actioner.
It took eight years, but a sequel to BAD BOYS finally arrived as the imaginatively titled BAD BOYS II. With Will Smith and Martin Lawrence back on the screen, director Michael Bay behind the camera, and über-successful producer Jerry Bruckheimer calling the shots, explosive action is guaranteed. Viewers might be surprised, however, just how big and how explosive BAD BOYS II turned out to be.

Perhaps the filmmakers were concerned that it might be another eight years (or more) before any BAD BOYS III could ever be made. As a result, they put together a movie that feels like two films, with all the extra mayhem, car chases and gun fights that entails. BAD BOYS II runs for nearly two-and-a-half hours with barely a moment's pause. So much havoc might test endurance of the hardiest action-movie aficionado.

The first BAD BOYS movie dealt with heroin smuggling. BAD BOYS II takes on Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia - played with relish by Jordi Mollà, familiar to audiences from the film BLOW - and his empire built on Ecstasy. Tapia is a slippery catch, having been arrested a dozen times without a conviction. This time returning heroes Mike Lowry (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) are going to do whatever it takes, even breaking the law, to put Tapia away. This entails a lot of flying bullets, countless wrecked vehicles and, of course, a little humor.

BAD BOYS II isn't quite as focused as its predecessor, thanks to its sprawling, action-playground construction. The humor also doesn't seem as sharp, buried as it is under layers of violence. A throwaway subplot involving a DEA agent (Gabrielle Union) who also happens to be Marcus's sister and Mike's love interest doesn't really go anywhere, either. BAD BOYS II is about spectacle, and everything else takes second place.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Director Bay throws some incredible action the audience's way, including an extended freeway car chase involving copious gunfire and a truck hauling new cars. By the time that sequence has ended, viewers will have to mop the sweat off their brows. It's good, intense stuff. And there's plenty more where that came from.

Unfortunately, BAD BOYS II begins to become too much by the time the last cartridge case has fallen. Everything in the film is good - except for maybe the tiresome, mean-spirited bickering between the leads - but there end result is so overwhelming that one feels it would have been better to split the movie in two and release it in halves, just to allow the audience a breather. Director Michael Bay is on record as intensely disliking the first BAD BOYS. He had problems with the script, the low budget, and almost everything else. BAD BOYS II features Bay with full freedom to do what he likes, and his experience with such jam-packed blockbusters as THE ROCK and ARMAGEDDON shows up here. One gets the feeling that if Bay could have shoehorned in just one more car chase, and just a few more gunfights, he would have.

Despite its flaws, BAD BOYS II is not a bad movie. The leads remain likeable, the bad guys are hissable and the action is top-notch. No one expects CITIZEN KANE. Just fasten your seat belts, because BAD BOYS II is a very bumpy ride.

Not good by any means.
Will Smith-if you get paid 20 million dollars a movie, then should at least try and not deliver a project that is a complete pile of crap. This movie pales in comparison to the original. The airplane hangar they blew up in the first movie was constructed by Fred Howland, my granfather rest in peace.

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