Bad Boys 2 (2003) Movie Information:
| Bad Boys 2 (2003) Directed by: |
 Michael Bay |
| Bad Boys 2 (2003) Written by: |
| Jerry Stahl, Cormac Wibberly, Marianne Wibberly, Ron Shelton, George Gallo |
| Bad Boys 2 (2003) Cast: |
| Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Molla, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Shannon, Jon Seda, Yul Vasquez |
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Bad Boys 2 (2003) Synopsis:
Narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett have been assigned to a high-tech task force investigating the flow of designer ecstasy in Miami. Their inquiries inadvertently lead them to a major conspiracy involving a vicious kingpin, whose ambitions to take over the city's drug trade have ignited a bloody turf war. But Mike and Marcus' friendship and working relationship is threatened when Mike begins to develop feelings for Marcus' sister Syd. Unless they can separate the personal from the professional, Mike and Marcus are in danger of blowing the case and endangering Syd's life in the process.
Bad Boys 2 (2003) Movie Review:
A little past the midway point of the summer movie season, yet another anticipated sequel is released for audiences, the explosive, but draining Bad Boys II.
This is the sequel to the 1995 surprise hit, Bad Boys, which was Michael Bay's directorial debut under the watchful eye of big time producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Back in 1995, the film's two leads, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, were just television, not movie stars at the time.
Now eight years later, the whole team is back together with true star appeal and huge budget for Bad Boys II. The story again centers around two Miami police detectives, Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) and Mike Lowery (Smith). Marcus is the bickering family man and Mike is the spiffy ladies man. The two are on the trail of a powerful drug lord from Cuba named Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molia), who is sneaking ecstasy into Miami through his morgue and funeral establishments. Added to the tension for the detectives is that Mike has been secretly going out with Marcus' younger sister Sydney (Deliver Us From Eva's Gabrielle Union), who is an undercover DEA officer from New York tracking Tapia as well. Mike knows that Marcus is overprotective and claims to be waiting for the right time to tell him.
This film is filled with gunfights, explosions, chase sequences, laughs, but nearly all of these elements go way over the top. Bad Boys II is just absolutely way too long, there is no reason for any buddy action comedy to clock in at 2 hours and 24 minutes. This is again a Bruckheimer movie, in which the major complaint for his other summer release this year, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, was its long running time. Bad Boys II is also shoulders of director Michael Bay, who has never known how to end a movie, remember Pearl Harbor (2001) and Armageddon (1998). Bay is a visually neurotic action director that uses every budgeted dollar to deliver flashy visuals. This installment has a lot more of everything than the first film did with the usual touches of Michael Bay, such as in your face nightclub sequences, slow motion gun fights, and very fast cars. Bay does have to be given credit for making something out of the film's dreadful script by Ron Shelton and Jerry Stahl. The story is flimsy, the characters are never totally defined and there are cliches galore. Though some of Bay's choices are admirable, like the superbly staged chase sequence where cars are being dropped at the heroes across a freeway, everything in this film is way too much to deal with. In addition to the freeway chase scene, there are half a dozen more car chases, many gunfights and arguments between Lawrence and Smith. Bad Boys II is also very violent, Bay does not hold back with the dead body count, decapitations, and bodies exploding into pieces.
Past all of the visual styles, cars, and explosions, the bright spot of Bad Boys II is the chemistry and improvisational moments by the stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. These two are just funny together and work brilliantly off of each other's comedic deliveries. The beautiful Gabrielle Union joins the cast as Marcus' sister Sydney, as does Jordi Molla as the usual unshaven Michael Bay villain, Johnny Tapia. The wonderful Joe Pantoliano again reprises his role as the screaming and stress police Captain Howard as does former NBA star John Salley as the computer hacker Fletcher.
Bad Boys II is the biggest popcorn movie of the summer that has some amusement, but its longevity will leave you fatigued. There are too many chase sequences, too many dead bodies, too many pervasive jokes; this blockbuster just goes over the top with pretty much everything.
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Bad Boys 2 (2003) review written by: Joseph Tucker
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