Bad Boys II
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 18, 2003
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eagleeyevikingFeb 2, 2020
Energetic and action-packed but exhausting and less smooth than the first film, "Bad Boys II" is an inferior if still entertaining sequel to "Bad Boys".
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MarickMay 12, 2015
A film too long he wants to show. The jokes are ok but a little exaggerated action sequences .
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grandpajoe6191Dec 6, 2011
Despite all the cool buddy cop (slow-mo) action Michael Bay throws in, a Hollywood movie is a Hollywood movie. "Bad Boys 2" is a prime example of what a real time-consuming movie should be. No more, no less.
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WriteFilmLive21Dec 6, 2012
It's easy to tell when you're watching a Michael Bay movie, particularly from post-90s Bay. He is a straight-up action junkie, and "Bad Boys II" is perhaps as much of an action flick as you could get, flying from one scene to the next in aIt's easy to tell when you're watching a Michael Bay movie, particularly from post-90s Bay. He is a straight-up action junkie, and "Bad Boys II" is perhaps as much of an action flick as you could get, flying from one scene to the next in a visually pompous, grandiose and sometimes distracting style. Bay's lack of proof at delivering good acting is saved to a certain extent here by the always-enjoyable Will Smith and sometimes-enjoyable Martin Lawrence, and the plot is - as usual - written to serve action and visual interest rather than characters and compelling suspense. Also signature of Bay here is a well-rounded melting pot of pubescence and common denominators - the screen is bursting at the seams virtually every minute with frenetic car chases and gunfights, bloody shootings, pissed off characters in love with profanity and the camera's adolescent adoration for sexual imagery and innuendo. Hell, in this round Bay treats himself to a substantial amount of somewhat disturbing mortuary humor and cadaver carnage, even resorting to throwing fat dead bodies off the back of a truck and watching them subsequently squashed and mutilated by traffic.

Still, despite all the over-the-line black comedy and lack of any substantive character development or plotwriting, the action scenes are mostly a lot of fun, and it's still nice to see car chases and massive destruction that isn't just CGI. True, you do have some computer cars swerving and tumbling down highways in a mayhem that likely defies many laws of physics, but you also have a Hummer careening madly down a hill of shacks and houses, followed by trails of explosions and enemy gunfire. Even when led by Will Smith, this can never make for great filmmaking, but this is Michael Bay at his adolescent best, and in this movie he can be largely forgiven for his momentary transgressions due to the overall popcorn factor of the flick. Just be warned - if you don't have the stomach for brutal bloody violence, hundreds of F-words, or hiding under sheets with dead big-breasted cadavers, "Bad Boys II" will not be your cup of tea. If you don't mind a barrage of mindless teenage eye candy, then perhaps you'll find this a treat. For me, I give it a rating straight down the middle. Fun action, some funny moments, and nice special effects, but stuffed with meatless filler of a plot. Okay, but not that great.… Expand
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Compi24Mar 29, 2020
A Michael Bay sequel that boils down to the same net quality as its predecessor, but with some of the key variables shifted around. Compared to "Bad Boys," "Bad Boys II" is greatly improved from an action and kinetics standpoint, with the setA Michael Bay sequel that boils down to the same net quality as its predecessor, but with some of the key variables shifted around. Compared to "Bad Boys," "Bad Boys II" is greatly improved from an action and kinetics standpoint, with the set pieces cumulatively comprising the film's greatest attribute in my opinion. I personally relished in that of the car carrier trailer/Ferrari chase, a scene that some have complained is too long. Honestly, though, it could have been much longer, so as to keep me further away from the scarcely funny humor and piss poor domestic spats sprinkled amidst the film's runtime. The villains are over the top, the feasibility of everything is rightfully lampoonable and there's a whole host of material that doesn't age well. In short, it's typical, early 2000's Bay, but I'd be a fool for not admitting that it could be a whole lot worse.… Expand
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bfoore90Nov 17, 2019
Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Gabrielle Union carry this film. Otherwise, Bad Boys 2 is a funny, all action, casual racist banter and normal everyday Bay-isms. Jordi Morella is an entertaining and memorable villain but the film is justWill Smith, Martin Lawrence and Gabrielle Union carry this film. Otherwise, Bad Boys 2 is a funny, all action, casual racist banter and normal everyday Bay-isms. Jordi Morella is an entertaining and memorable villain but the film is just overstuffed with mindless action scenes, car chases and shoot outs with no regard for collateral damage. The third act is one big Hummer H2 commercial… Expand
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FlickFreaks83Dec 11, 2015
Whether the original Bad Boys merited a sequel is a moot point - with worldwide takings of over $180 million on a $23 million budget, it was inevitable.

However, a gap of eight years - an age in cinematic terms - means that the hardlyWhether the original Bad Boys merited a sequel is a moot point - with worldwide takings of over $180 million on a $23 million budget, it was inevitable.

However, a gap of eight years - an age in cinematic terms - means that the hardly indelible characters have fallen off the movie-going radar and need to make quite a noise to recapture an audience now more enamoured with CG, kung fu and fantasy than bullets and fireballs. While not wanting for bangs, as a film Bad Boys II makes more of a dull thud.

Smith and Lawrence are an agreeable comic pairing when given the right material and a reason for their incessant bickering - otherwise their sniping is irritating rather than hilarious.

The 'killer ecstasy' plot (which causes precisely one fatality and seems to do very nicely for Lawrence in one jarring comedy sequence) on which their antics are hung might have passed muster in the '80s, but seems a little 'so what?' now - like warning against the perils of CFCs.

The pair do have their moments (especially an amusing interrogation of Marcus' daughter's terrified date), but much of what's here is offensive (corpse tossing, anyone?) without being funny.

Smith in particular, though a master of the buddy comedy genre, could do with being pickier with his material, having starred in nothing consistently hilarious since the original Men In Black.

Even in the face of leaden material, Michael Bay still manages to pull some impressive directorial tricks out of the bag. The first car chase down a Miami highway beats the overloaded freeway free-for-all of The Matrix Reloaded hands down, and his use of the camera is occasionally dazzling. But for what?

Circling a shootout in one continuous tracking shot looks jaw-dropping, but when the villains have no apparent motive or relevance, you might as well watch it with the sound off.

By the time the film hits the two-hour mark, with a needless trip to Cuba and yet another car chase/shoot out, what was once invention has long since dulled into pointless repetition.

There’s some ‘bad’, meaning good, here; there’s also a lot of plain bad. Frankly, there’s just far too much of everything.… Expand
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MovieMasterEddyApr 3, 2016
Hot Cars, Burning Rubber and Guys Good and Bad!

Let's begin with a traffic report. This has been an unusually chaotic summer on the freeways and boulevards of South Florida and Southern California — in the movies anyway. First there wereHot Cars, Burning Rubber and Guys Good and Bad!

Let's begin with a traffic report. This has been an unusually chaotic summer on the freeways and boulevards of South Florida and Southern California — in the movies anyway. First there were Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves somersaulting on top of a speeding semi in "The Matrix Reloaded" to the sound of grinding gears and complaining metal. This was followed in short order by the big chase at the end of "Hollywood Homicide," the Mitsubishi mating dance in "2 Fast 2 Furious" and Arnold Schwarzenegger swinging from the end of a giant crane in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."

Now, hoping to outdo them all in automotive wreckage and box office damage, here is "Bad Boys II," in which a posse of bad guys commandeers a trailer loaded with new cars that they drive at high speed along a stretch of Miami highway, flinging the cargo onto the road behind them at Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, who are in furious pursuit. "Did you see that?" Mr. Lawrence exclaims as a Buick spirals overhead. To which Mr. Smith replies: "They're throwing cars. How am I not going to see that?"

Later a different set of bad guys (not to be confused with the bad boys of the title, Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence, who are good guys) will do a similar trick, only with embalmed corpses, one of which is graphically decapitated by another vehicle. But perhaps it is time to cut away from the chase.

"Bad Boys II," in which Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence once again play a pair of Miami police detectives named Mike and Marcus, is the latest collaboration between Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced it, and Michael Bay, who directed. (Ron Shelton, director of the much better "Hollywood Homicide," helped write the screenplay.) This one follows in the tradition of the earlier Bruckheimer-Bay pictures — the first "Bad Boys," "The Rock," "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor" — all of which made a lot of money and were otherwise pretty much worthless.

Mr. Bruckheimer, who is routinely identified in publicity material as "the most successful producer of all time," is not a man for subtlety or for half measures. This summer he has, at least momentarily, outdone himself, releasing two movies — "Bad Boys II" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" — within 10 days. The two films have an aggregate running time just shy of five hours. ("Boys," at 144 minutes, is 11 minutes longer than "Pirates.") Anyone contemplating a double feature should come prepared with a large bottle of Tylenol. I can't say I recommend the experience, but it's your money, at least until Mr. Bruckheimer gets his hands on it.

Quite a bit was clearly spent on the assaultive, bombastic, and occasionally funny spectacle that is "Bad Boys II." Mr. Bay may lack restraint (also taste, wit and shame), but he does have an undeniable flair for sleaze, noise and vulgarity. One of his most impressive feats is to film a nightclub rave scene so that the camera glides under the skirts and between the legs of the women. There is something leering and nasty about this that makes the more pervasive ogling in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" seem downright wholesome.

A similarly cold, aggressive voyeurism characterizes the film's violence, which is relentless and often gruesome. Corpses are probed for drugs hidden inside them; a bucket of severed limbs, still dripping blood, is placed on a dining-room table. Several times Mr. Bay uses slow motion to track the course of a speeding bullet, climaxing with its explosive, splattery impact on a human body. David O. Russell used a similar effect in "Three Kings" as a graphic and terrifying illustration of what a gunshot can do. Here it is meant to produce a dumb, visceral, involuntary thrill. The audience at the screening I attended responded on cue to each exploding cranium and mangled tosro, with oohs and oofs and wows (as well as less printable interjections), and so, helplessly, did I.

The cast, in contrast, appear fit and energetic. The best moments come when Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence are permitted to pause from their action-hero duties and run their funny, unpredictable mouths. At one point, to no discernible narrative purpose, they team up to terrify a young man who has come to take Marcus's daughter on a date, and their parody of thuggish bravado seems like a sly sendup of the movie itself.

The main difference between the partners is that Marcus is a family man (his infinitely patient wife is played, in too few scenes, by Teresa Randle), while Mike is, in his partner's words, "a dog." He also happens to be sweet on Marcus's younger sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union), an undercover federal agent who is mixed up in their case, and whose abduction by the chief bad guy occasions the unauthorized invasion of Cuba at the end of the movie.… Expand
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DMGDealerJun 25, 2020
Michael Bay takes his ideas from the first film and makes it feel like you're on some drug rush fueled action movie. Bad Boys II is an film of been a sequel that is filled with nothing but shooting, explosions (outlandish action scenes thatMichael Bay takes his ideas from the first film and makes it feel like you're on some drug rush fueled action movie. Bad Boys II is an film of been a sequel that is filled with nothing but shooting, explosions (outlandish action scenes that sometimes don't fit), strobe-light effects and humor. Also some of facts over MDMA which sound silly at best I mean at least it was a robbery in the previous film. Lawrence and Smith's iconic comedic duo keep this going since the first film.… Expand
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SuperbaDMIkeJun 15, 2022
At first, Bad Boys II was one of my favorite action movies and when I look back at it. It's long but has boring dialogue and sex, porn, and comedy we kinda didn't need.
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JesseDillingerApr 25, 2023
Do you like explosions? Funny back and forth banter? Boy do I have a movie for you...again
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