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Bad Boys II
Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and action, pervasive language, sexuality and drug content
Starring
Martin Lawrence,
Will Smith,
Gabrielle Union,
Joe Pantoliano,
Theresa Randle,
Tom Hillmann,
and
Gino Salvano
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back -- and oh so bad -- on the streets of Miami in Bad Boys II, reuniting them with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. (Sony Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ron Shelton
Jerry Stahl
Cormac Wibberley (also story)
Marianne Wibberley (also story) and George Gallo (characters)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Bay
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 9, 2003
Video: December 9, 2003
Theatrical: July 18, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
146 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ellen A. Kim
Watching a Bruckheimer with natural comics like Smith and Lawrence makes it all go down easily. If you like this type of movie, that is.
70
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The bigger-than-big, rambunctious spectacle is way too much of a questionably good thing.
70
Film Threat
G. Allen Johnson
It may be the most winning, smile-inducing Hollywood action flick of the summer.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
However masterful, the first-rate stunt work, effects, action cinematography and cutting (by no less than three editors) lose impact through sheer repetition.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed.
67
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Though the picture has a generic quality, it also has an ingenious amount of anything-goes that's amusing and frequently exciting. You'll laugh out loud, you'll hide your eyes -- but you'll roll them. too. Nevertheless, it's a fun, if blood- and sun-soaked, ride.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Beyond turbocharged. It whooshes along at warp speed. And still, despite some awesomely choreographed stunts and the two stars' pedal-to-the-metal appeal, the movie seems endless.
60
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
In general, Bad Boys II is Bay unleashed. This is a good thing when it comes to action sequences--fans of excessive spectacle will definitely dig the car chases that involve flying cadavers. It's a bit less of a good thing between said moments of spectacle.
60
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
But damn it if the film doesn't work as what it's supposed to be: a big, brainless blast o' boom at the box office.
50
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
With a body built for action and a smile made for comedy, Smith eases through his scenes -- cool but never scary, a touch hip-hop and thoroughly audience-friendly. And unlike Lawrence, he can act. Smith's ability to put over a scene, combined with his matinee charm, goes a long way to making the film's violence palatable.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Just too much of a mediocre thing. It didn't have to be that way.
50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Might be considered three action sequences and four comedy routines in search of a story.
50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
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.
50
Wall Street Journal
Collin Levey
Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it.
50
Village Voice
Jon Caramanica
Martin Lawrence's Marcus is the Costello to Smith's Abbott.
40
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Resembles a full-length promo for itself. The action, virtually nonstop, is a series of can-you-top-this? set pieces.
40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
As overblown as it is overlong, Bad Boys II is an enervating case of more is less.
40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Just like "Bad Boys," only louder, longer and the stars get paid more.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie’s length forces our suspension of disbelief for at least an hour more than is comfortable and pushes mindlessness to a dangerous longevity.
38
New York Daily News
Jami 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.
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.
38
Baltimore Sun
Michael 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.
38
USA Today
Mike Clark
Appallingly mean-spirited.
30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Bad Boys II is the rare case in which escapism involves leaving the theater.
30
Salon.com
Charles 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.
25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The vilest film of the season.
25
New York Post
Lou 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.
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is so choppy in its nervous editing that a lot of the time we're simply watching senseless kinetic action.
20
TV Guide
Maitland 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.
12
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both.
0
Chicago Reader
J.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.
0
Rolling Stone
Peter 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.
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