Bad Boys II
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 18, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
12
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
If you think you're tough enough, go ahead and sit through the endurance test that is Bad Boys 2, a brutal, 2 1/2-hour display of production overkill. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Smith and Lawrence enjoyed some amusing chemistry in the '95 original, but their molecules sure aren't jibing here. It's a full hour into this behemoth before there's anything resembling a belly laugh. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The apotheosis of adolescent junk. Every sequence spews or splats carnage-filled effects. It's over-the-top, but not pleasurably so -- it's calculatedly over-the-top. The only way to get off on it is to revel in its prodigal waste of materiel. Read full review
38
USA TodayMike Clark
Appallingly mean-spirited. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Bad Boys II is the rare case in which escapism involves leaving the theater. Read full review
30
SalonCharles Taylor
Another Jerry Bruckheimer-Michael Bay demonstration of spectacle -- noise, stunts, the aforementioned incoherent editing -- taking precedence over story and character... by far the most brutal American picture released this summer. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie is so choppy in its nervous editing that a lot of the time we're simply watching senseless kinetic action. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
It's basically the longest (a butt-numbing 21/2 hours), the most expensive (a reportedly obscene $150 million), most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of "Miami Vice" ever. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The vilest film of the season. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
There's at least one ending too many, Union regularly vanishes for long stretches of the movie, and director Michael Bay's unmitigated pandering to viewers who whoop with glee whenever someone gets it between the eyes is genuinely distasteful. Read full review
12
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Bad Boys II has everything. Everything loud, dumb, violent, sexist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay can think of puking up onscreen. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This putrid action flick crawls along for two and a half hours before expiring in a septic field of bad one-liners, halfhearted catchphrases, obliterated cars, vicious slow-motion bullet penetration, graphic corpse mutilations played for laughs, and shamefully hollow bonding scenes between its two dyspeptic megastars. Read full review
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