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Bad Boys for life
I loved the car chases in the film
I liked the body and the corpes chase it was a bit but funny
I laughed when mike larrey ran over the dead mans head and fell off the body.

Bad II


It's hard to imagine that anyone out there could actually have been clamoring for a sequel to 1995's "Bad Boys." Yet, eight years later, along came "Bad Boys II" to remind us that even the least deserving film can get itself a follow-up, provided it has the right amount of high-powered corporate backing and big enough names in the cast to get the job done. As with most sequels, this one comes replete with a Roman numeral neatly tucked behind its title to give it that extra special touch of class. However, in this case, perhaps the II really stands for "twice as bad."

This new film, which is indeed even longer, dopier and duller than the original, once again stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as two Miami P.D. undercover cops who spend most of their time kvetching at one another in between car chases and shootouts (and often during as well). As this is a Michael Bay film, rest assured that the gun battles and vehicular mayhem have been designed on so grand and epic a scale that we wonder that the entire city of Miami along with a good part of Cuba haven't been reduced to rubble by the time Smith and Lawrence are done doing their thing.

The nominal plot involves the partners tracking down a Cuban drug kingpin (yawn) who is smuggling Xtasy to the states hidden inside gutted corpses. This allows for some truly vile humor at the expense of some innocent dead bodies ("Six Feet Under" this definitely is not). To complicate matters, Lawrence's beautiful kid sister is also working undercover for the NEA and the fretting Lawrence does everything he can to make her job all that much more difficult.

The screenplay by Ron Shelton and Jerry Stahl encompasses every cop buddy cliché known to mankind. First, we have the hyper distraught captain who somehow fails to see the genius behind the boys' unconventional crime fighting methods. Then, in place of characterization, the boys engage in a running repartee of stale jokes and tiresome put downs that continues on even though all around them bullets are flying and bodies are piling up. Finally, there is the threatened sundering of the team over petty differences and the equally inevitable patching up of differences at the end. And the humor is so lowbrow that the film lacks even the saving grace of laughter to make it all bearable. Basically, this sequel is just another opportunity for Bay to beat his audience over the head with frenetic editing and mind numbing action.

"Bad Boys II" might have been more aptly named if they had simply dropped the word "Boys" out of the title altogether. It would at least have given audiences a more truthful and accurate description of the contents.

Too long!!
I actually expected this film to be even worse that it was. (You might notice my review is nearly 2 years after the film was first released.) But I watched it on one of those nights where I just felt a need for some mindless, high-quality shoot-'em-up action.

BAD BOYS II delivers on that score. There is a highway chase scene early on, where the bad guys are driving a trailer lugging a bunch of cars on their way to a dealership. One by one, they start throwing the cars off the trailer, and the consequences are quite spectacular. The effects are convincing, lots of things explode, crash, fly into the air, etc. Later, a large boat is used as an obstacle, with even more mayhem ensuing. In the car, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith exchange witty banter to show how cool they are (or at least, Smith is). It's a satisfyingly effective, exciting and expensive scene. I dare say it gives the now legendary car chase in MATRIX RELOADED a run for its money.

There are some other nice action sequences (a shoot out in a Jamaican bad-guys filthy lair is amusing and stylishly shot). Michael Bay certainly has his own style. It's not actually a GOOD style overall, but it's unmistakable. Extremely brief scenes one after another to make exposition seem exciting. Swooping camera angles. Over the top sound mixes. It's all designed to provide a treat for the senses, I guess..but it becomes a bit much.

I can't believe he was allowed to get away with a nearly 2.5 hour movie. This is a popcorn action flick and its most disposable, and yet just when the movie ought to be over...there's a long and frankly poorly executed rescue scene in Cuba. It hasn't got half the adrenelin rush that the early chase scene did. Yes, it has the biggest explosions, but it's somewhat confusing and by this time, we just want it to be OVER!!

Will Smith gets to cuss a lot in this movie..but otherwise it's pretty much the same schtick he always gives us. Martin Lawrence's character is all over the place. Is he a reluctant cop dealing with anger issues? Is he the comic relief? Is he Smith's equal in the action department? Who knows and who cares. I know some people like Lawrence. Count me out of that bunch. Joe Pantoliano is wasted in a poorly written role as their captain, who gets to go on tirades about the destruction these guys cause. (Frankly, if a chase scene like the one we see ever happened in real life, it would be MAJOR, MAJOR national and international news...not just something your boss yells at you for before telling to go "get back out there and get those guys." I can't help but think that in the scene as shown, probably 50 people died and about 200 cars were destroyed, along with millions of dollars in property damage. But in the world of BAD BOYS II, no big whoop.

The movie needed tightening up, more than anything. Let's stick to the action, cut needless "character development" scenes, which Michael Bay couldn't pull off convincingly if his life depended on it (you can tell he doesn't care about them), and confine Lawrence and Smith to the humerous banter and stay away from the loud, senseless, repetitive arguments.

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