What categorically doesn’t work in Bad Boys II is its needlessly mean-spirited sense of humour the routine homophobic “jokes” felt dated in 2003 let alone 2020, and there’s a pervasive dismissal of PTSD and male mental health throughout the film that feels bizarrely passive-aggressive. The use of shaky cam coverage can be mildly frustrating during especially chaotic sequences, but for the most part the film delivers tremendous bang for your buck, and given the amount of CGI thrown at the screen, it’s remarkable just how gorgeous the film’s 4K presentation looks.
Bad Boys II is packed with action, and Bay does an impressive job keeping the set-pieces diverse and distinct from one another, whether it’s a car chase where the antagonists launch vehicles at our heroes, or a confined shootout in a drug den with Bay tracking the camera from room to room in a smooth single take. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back - and oh so bad - on the streets of Miami in 'Bad Boys II,' reuniting them with director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The result is a film that matches its giddy banter with genuinely creative set-pieces, which mark by far the most laudable leap from the first film. Teen delinquent Mick OBrien (Sean Penn) is sent to juvenile hall after unintentionally killing the younger sibling of a rival gang leader, Paco Moreno (Esai Morales), in a drug-deal con gone wrong. buddy cop film franchise of 1995s Bad Boys and 2003s Bad Boys II. Ironically, this super-charged buddy cop sequel was a far more humble success, failing to gross even half of Armageddon‘s box office take.īut from minute one, the sequel lays its cards flat and lets the audience know they’re in for quite the ride, defined by saturated, almost sickly colour grading, aggressive use of slow motion, more bikini-clad butts than your average Fast and the Furious movie, lashings of bloodshed and, er, more gay panic than your average Hangover movie.īut the flip side of Bay’s inability to self-edit is that Bad Boys II is really like no other action film released during the early 2000s how many buddy cop movies have ever been given the green-light to indulge in so much wanton absurdity, with such a colossally bloated budget no less? Bad Boys 3, billed as Bad Boys for Life, will see Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The drug ecstasy is flowing into Miami, and the police want it stopped. With a stonking $130 million budget – that’s almost seven-fold the original’s $19 million – Bad Boys II itself only exists in such overblown form because Bay’s back-to-back $140 million tentpoles Armageddon and Pearl Harbour both set the box office ablaze. The first apparent thing about this sequel, which bafflingly took eight years to come to fruition, is that it’s a far more heavily stylised affair than the original. Headliners Will Smith and Martin Lawrence will be joined in the Bad Boys for Life cast by Alexander Ludwig ( Vikings, The Hunger Games), Vanessa Hudgens ( Second Act, Powerless) and Charles Melton ( Riverdale, American Horror Story).Bad Boys II is a film of both extreme highs and lows, a film that sheds any faint, comparative modesty its predecessor had and delivers what still might be the quintessential Michael Bay movie. It stars Gabrielle Union, who plays her Bad Boys 2 character, Sydney “Syd” Burnett, joined by Jessica Alba, who plays police partner Nancy McKenna.
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While Bad Boys for Life spent ages in production purgatory, a Bad Boys spinoff TV series project has since manifested, called L.A.’s Finest, and is already set for a second season. Bullets fly, cars crash, and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of Cuba.
Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstacy into Florida. The action and comedy never stop when superstars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite as out-of-control trash-talking buddy cops. Paola Nuñez will take on the role of Rite, the tough and funny criminal psychologist who is the newly appointed head of AMMO and Mike’s former girlfriend – and the one who got away. Bad Boys II Released: 2003 Director: Michael Bay IMDb Rating: 6.3. He is committed to the work of the cartel and is dispatched by his mother to kill Mike (Will Smith). Armando is a cold-blooded killer with a vicious, taunting nature. The new instalment centres on the Miami PD and its elite AMMO team’s attempt to take down Armando Armas (Jacob Scipio), head of a drug cartel. Here’s a synopsis for Bad Boys for Life that surfaced back in January 2019: