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75Bay'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.
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75Watching a Bruckheimer with natural comics like Smith and Lawrence makes it all go down easily. If you like this type of movie, that is.
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70However masterful, the first-rate stunt work, effects, action cinematography and cutting (by no less than three editors) lose impact through sheer repetition.
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70It may be the most winning, smile-inducing Hollywood action flick of the summer.
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70The bigger-than-big, rambunctious spectacle is way too much of a questionably good thing.
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67Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed.
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67Though 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.
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63The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it.
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63Beyond 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.
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60But 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.
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60In 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.
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50Just too much of a mediocre thing. It didn't have to be that way.
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Martin Lawrence's Marcus is the Costello to Smith's Abbott.
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50With 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.
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50The best moments come when Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence are permitted to pause from their action-hero duties and run their funny, unpredictable mouths.
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Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it.
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50Might be considered three action sequences and four comedy routines in search of a story.
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40The movie’s length forces our suspension of disbelief for at least an hour more than is comfortable and pushes mindlessness to a dangerous longevity.
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40Resembles a full-length promo for itself. The action, virtually nonstop, is a series of can-you-top-this? set pieces.
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40As overblown as it is overlong, Bad Boys II is an enervating case of more is less.
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40Just like "Bad Boys," only louder, longer and the stars get paid more.
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38If 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.
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38Appallingly mean-spirited.
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38Smith 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.
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38The 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.
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30Another 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.
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30Bad Boys II is the rare case in which escapism involves leaving the theater.
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25The movie is so choppy in its nervous editing that a lot of the time we're simply watching senseless kinetic action.
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25The vilest film of the season.
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25It'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.
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20There'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.
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12The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both.
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0Bad 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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0This 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.
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AnsonG.0Yuck, this movie was totally overrated. It was awful and horrible film. Bad plot, boring, disgusting, better dont watch this.
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