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• Funny Ass Movie!! posted on 06 Sep 2007

  If you go to the movies for good times, not to pick out every impossibility and far fetched story line, then you will love this movie. The action and comedy are both top notch and well worth your time (and money). This is not brain food, but it will definitely give you your daily prescription of laughter.

• Was this a sequel to Bad Boys or Lethal Weapon? posted on 06 Sep 2007

  Warning - May contain spoilers.Watching this movie, I could have sworn I was watching a Lethal Weapon movie. You've got two cops who have been partners for a long time and act like a bickering married couple. One threatens to break the partnership while the two are chasing a bad guy. Bad guy makes it personal by kidnapping a loved one of one of the partners. The two partners chase after the bad guy and kill him to free the loved one. All the while, there is bad comedy but amazing stunts sprinkled throughout. Throw in an Italian-American actor named Joe (Pantoliano vs. Pesci) who has a whiny, annoying voice and the formula is complete.I was really looking forward to Bad Boys II, since I had always wondered why it had taken so long to make a sequel to the first one, which I really enjoyed. The banter between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence wasn't as good this time and the comedy was way too contrived - "woosa" and humping rats. Very disappointing. Is it too late to make a sequel of Running Scared with Billy Crystal?

• More High Octane Action/Comedy posted on 06 Sep 2007

  Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back with more of the same High speed action, profanity and laughs.This outing although very enjoyable seems a little more pointless than the first one and certainly drags on a bit too long. That said its still a good sequel and certainly worth watching if you enjoyed the first one.All the stunts are impressive, without the use of CGI and Smith and Lawrence still form a formidable cop duo, second only to Riggs and Murtaugh in the Lethal weapon films.7/10

• A Ride posted on 04 Sep 2007

  I was 13 years old when this movie came out but it was released in India for only 2 weeks and was then pulled out of the theatres. So I didn't get to see it until I got a hold of the DVD. Before I saw the DVD I only watched the trailer of this movie many times. And that just kept on building up the anticipation for me. My friends saw it when it came out and they too were 13 so they kept on telling me that this movie was indecent and had a lot of bad language. But this movie's R-rated what do you expect? Anyways I finally saw this movie and I was so blown away by its action sequences I really did not give a damn about its bad language or its indecency. This movie was a ride that kept me going and I had no clue that 2 and a half hours just went by. The only thing though is that since this movie was more walk and less talk, some parts of the plot just had me puzzled and I wondered what happened to some of the characters.As a kid who grew up in the 90s buddy cop films were very popular, and I just wanna thank Martin and Will for bringing that back into the 2000s with some extra bang.And the soundtrack was tight, especially that song by Fat Joe, Diddy and Dre. Also this movie was one of the reasons why I became a fan of the Miami Heat.All together, if you want to stay at home and still have fun, get Bad Boys 2.

• One hell of a thrill ride posted on 23 Aug 2007

  This is in your face moviemaking. It is so cool and over the top that the movie almost creates a new genre all for itself. It is essentially in the same genre as Desperado. Most critics have misunderstood this movie because it is not suppossed to have a friendly and cheesy atmosphere like most action movies made today. Bad action movies such as XXX and Die Another Day come to mind where no one says a single swear word and never acts irrationally even though they are that close to loosing their life. This is not an innocent and kiddie friendly movie and is not meant for anyone below the age of 17. The only flaw with this movie is that the chase scenes are filmed with too much shaky camera and close ups. But all movies the last couple of years with the exeption of Matrix Reloaded had the same problem. On top of all the action the movie has a lot of humour and is worth the price of admission just for that. I give it 8 out of 10.

• Great Sequel, Why can't Others be like This? posted on 23 Aug 2007

  Great sequel, it's amazing that a sequel for a hit movie outshines the former one nowadays. Clever, funny, and violent movie, at times gross and bleak with the subject of corpses falling out of funeral vehicles but overall a great movie with a clever plot line. It was explendidly long and I loved it. Just when I thought it was coming to an end at approximately the 2-hour mark an amazing turnaround happens and the whole story changes into a spicy finale. Who would have thought that the 2 bad boys would end up in THAT place (when you see the movie you know what I'm talking about). This movie must have costed over $140 million to make I'll tell you that right now. I never saw the first one and never bothered but I went to see this one and now I regret not having watched the first one (considering it's half as good as #2). I give it 5 stars out of 5, there's no reason to give it anything less, at last I see an action movie with an intelligent plot and no breaks or boring moments throughout the film. I wish I could say the same thing about "Terminator 3" but it disappointed me with their ridiculous and at times preposterous plot line.

• decent sequel, not not an equal posted on 21 Aug 2007

  There was so much that could have bee done, such as make the film shorter. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith's banter with each other doesn't have the same appeal that it did in the first one, as here it looks like they went mainly for the laughs, and the jokes come off somewhat forced. yes, there are many explosions that will satisfy the average viewer. But there are some scenes, and several other items that seem off. First off, how many EMT's do you know of that swear while on the radio, and use ethnic slurs. Here, the writers are not aware that yes, business and other places that use CB radio's do in some respects have to abide by FCC rules. But in the scene where Smith and Lawrence break into the Shady Palms mortuary, the undercovers swear left and right, and use racial slurs that were completely not needed. Second, John Sally's Fletecher character has gone from a convict in the first film, to being a member of the police department! I'm not sure how Florida's law may work in reality, but I'm not sure of many police outfits that allow former felons to join their ranks. There's also way too much convience for my taste, seeing how a member of the police force has a brother who is a member of the underground movement against Castro in Cuba, and the captain has connections to the CIA. ?! Much of the final act of the film is rather implausible in many respects, and no care seems to be given for the drivers of the Hummer that gets Smith and Lawrence's characters into Tapia's compound. Just the ease of which we are led to believe Lowery and Marcus arrive is utterly implausible. Had the producers tried to not outsmart themselves, had the final act not felt so force, and had the film been at least twenty minutes shorter, the film would have been great. Too much excess, too much banter for the action to be taken seriously, and way, way too many implausible instances hurt the film. There is a thing called suspension of disbelief, but this film ask for discontinued belief. After the long layoff following the first one, this Should have been way better. Alas, Bad Boys bows out with a muddled mess.

• Nice sequel posted on 13 Aug 2007

  Well, I should think that this film is a nice one. There is much action and humour and not to forgive the Ferrari :)The script is a bit disappointing compared to the first Bad Boys, but I think the script-writers and the director have achieved the thing that they wanted to. It's just made to entertain with its action and humour and, in my opinion, it did.7.5/10

• Talk about banalizing violence... posted on 09 Aug 2007

  When I decided to go to the movies I really did not have great expectations, I only hoped to see some good action scenes, and that I give the film.But what what I couldn't expect was the massive blood shed I witnessed. I expected some level of what I call "unjustified violence", that is, the sort of violence that is there "per se", just for the fun of it, and not with an specific purpose, but this movie goes way beyond it.The care taken in the shooting scenes is amazing, with slow motion takes of penetrating bullets, blood spills, falling corpses, etc. etc. One might even say it's a highlight of this movie. and that is just the beginning, there's plenty more meat for audience's excitement. That includes a visit to the morgue, where hands are stuck in bodies, organs are pulled out and thrown away, brains are exposed, all very, very natural. It follows a city chase with flying and ran over corpses, a jeep race through a cuban shanty town with the america's own "hummer" and for the "gran finale" a detailed slow motion head shot, with skull explosion, over land mine landing and complete body blow up!!!The extreme violence itself would be bad enough, but when you mix it with comedy all at the same time, you make it into a distasteful, stomach wrapping adoration of violence. I know this sort of stuff is been there for a while, but even though this movie has managed to impress me.May the americans feast themselves with it! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

• Will probably deliver what you're expecting. posted on 09 Aug 2007

  Bad Boys 2 is overlong, self-indulgent, and doesn't make very much sense, but works as a "popcorn movie" and is ready to satisfy anyone who doesn't ask for much in an action movie. The extremely routine storyline doesn't serve a purpose other than to shove enough gore, swearing, and T&A (well..sort of)into the audience's face. Not that there's any problem with that.6/10BTW, how many more times do we need to see the action-sequence-followed-by-police-boss-yelling-at-main-character(s)-for-"cr eating-such-a-mess" opening? S.W.A.T., Exit Wounds, Rush Hour, etc. have rubbed it into the dirt by now, and it's become quite a cliche.

• Big, bad, bold, proud, and ugly posted on 01 Aug 2007

  Violence, gore, spectacular chase scenes, unbelievable stunts, and two reckless cops who could only be real in the world of Hollywood fantasy.Bad Boys II is an orgy of carnage, drug dealers, gross out language, high tech pyrotechnics, and good chemistry between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.Will & Martin are a cross between Abbott & Costello, and an extreme version of Starsky & Hutch.The funny moments are very funny. The chase scenes are ridiculously exciting, and the rapport between Smith and Lawrence...very entertaining.Despite the negatives, Bad Boys II is the best action pic I've seen so far this Summer. Much better than a forgettable TIII.Check reality at the door when you walk into this movie. For shock value, thrills and spills, outrageous stunts, and entertaining chatter between Will Smith & Martin Lawrence, Bad Boys II delivers.It's 2 - 1/2 hours for a reason. A tad long, but everyone cheered at the end of the movie after seeing it among a packed house on a Saturday night.

• All Explosion, No Substance. posted on 28 Jul 2007

  Although pretty enjoyable to the point of ridiculousness, Bad Boys II is the most overblown, unsubtle, cliché action film you will ever see. I know action films are meant to be entertaining and lack narrative cohesion and realism but this takes it to a new level with every scene bordering on the implausible and laughably stupid. The whole thing is so overblown and predictable it will give you a headache. Throw in Michael Bay's typically showy, pompous slow-mo, swooning, swish-panny camera, a predictable storyline that tries to create conflict, your stereotypical euro-villain and a sense of how much money and talent and destruction one can throw in every scene and you have a completely overblown, brains at the door action extravaganza.5/10

• I didn't think it was possible. posted on 22 Jul 2007

  But, this was actually FUNNIER AND MORE EXCITING THAN THE ORIGINAL!
  *Possible spoilers ahead.* There are the jokes; the gunfights; the car chases; the gunfights; the explosions; the gunfights; the delightfully dichotomous bad guy (loving father/dutiful son/homicidal maniac). Oh! And, did I mention the gunfights? As Martin Lawrence (of whom I've admittedly only been an ambivalent fan) might say: "DAY-AM! This is one phat-a** movie!" In plain old W.A.S.P-ish, that means I give it 3.9 stars (for definitely _not_being dull).

• 2nd worst film I saw in the last year. posted on 20 Jul 2007

  I wanted to walk out on this movie, but it was showing in my living room. Actually, I did walk out, to use the bathroom. My wife asked if I wanted to pause the playback and I told her there was no need.What chemistry and humor there was in the first movie is forced in this one. And for such a flimsy premise as this, why was it so long?Just way overdone and a waste of everyone's creative energy.

• bad boys for life posted on 18 Jul 2007

  Will Smith & Martin Lawrence are back as buddy-cops, Mike and Marcus respectively. This time they're on the trail of an Ectasy drug ring, but the insubstantial plot takes a backseat to the action overload that never let's go until the Bad Boys find themselves in Cuba, where the film takes a major downturn. All in all I liked this movie a lot because I took it for what it was, a dumb mindless action flick. All of the cast is good, even Martin Lawrence, whom I never cared for. Joe Pantoliano is ok, but never gets to really shine like I know he can, due to the rather one-note Police sergeant role. Many leftests have complained that this movie is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc... My response to them is a simple one, GROW UP!! Not every film can confirm to PC standards & I for one am happy of that. There's only so much politically correct BS one can swallow. Liberals this is not a movie for you, go fawn over "American Beauty" & the ilk.My Action movie Grade: B+DVD Extras: Disc one: Trailers for "Bad Boys"; "Bad Boys 2"; "Once upon a time in Mexico"; "Radio"; "S.W.A.T."; ' the new spider-man cartoon"; "the Missing"; & "Underworld" Disc 2: 7 Deleted scenes; 2 featurettes; 6 Sequence breakdowns; production diaries; & Jay z music video 'La la la'

• Great Popcorn Flick posted on 04 Jul 2007

  Bad Boys II is one of those films you can watch with a bunch of friends and be thoroughly entertained, because you really don't have to pay much attention to the story because there really is none. This film works because Micahel Bay & Jerry Bruikheimer know how to make fun movies. What makes this film great, is mainly the on screen chemistry of Will Smith & Martin Lawrence, who are great together. Superb action sequences, especially the freeway scene (makes the Matrix Reloaded look like a puppy). With Smith & Lawrence you can expect big laughs (especially the scene where they scare the crap out of a young teenager). Overall I highly recommend this film, not for kids or young teenagers.

• funnier and more action packed than the original posted on 30 Jun 2007

  while i enjoyed the first Bad Boys movie,quite a bit,i was absolutely blown away by this one.the action in this one is off the scale,and the movie is even funnier.Will Smith and Martin Lawrence returns as the two Miami detectives from the original.there are teamed up again to solve another huge case.this time they have some professional and personal issues with each other,which add to the drama.there is one spectacular car chase,which is admittedly unrealistic,but very exciting to watch.there is still the same comedic banter between the two,which helps to slow the frenetic pace down once in awhile.like i said,this movie blew men away.the intensity of it stayed with me even after the end credits rolled.i'll admit,there's less story in this one,but there is enough of one to keep it interesting.as for the action scenes,i haven't seen anything like that in a long time.for me,Bad Boys 2 is superior to the original.i give it 9/10

• haven't seen the first posted on 24 Jun 2007

  i must admit i really liked this movie, i thought i had seen it all with the buddy cop movies, but yet somehow this one seemed to me to be very different, sure it has all of the stuff that you would expect a buddy cop movie to have, maybe it's different because i haven't seen the original, and don't have anything to compare it to. i loved gabriella union , she's very sexy. will smith is always funny, martin lawrence is very good too. what i liked best that i've NEVER =seen before in a movie, and i have to give michael bay credit for is the scene where they empty, the trailer full of cars one by one onto the freeway,, just looking at the shots of the cars jumping off of the semi, made me jump,, i noticed this was produced by jerry bruckenheimer, and the late donald simpson. simpson had his hand in 48 hours also. overall i liked everything about this movie except the fact that it ran over 2 hours, and should have ended at the most at the 1hr 45 min mark,, , i just hate a movie that can't decide where to end. but other than that, hey i loved it, and can't wait to see bad boys the first one,,

• Atrocious. The worst movie I've seen - ever. posted on 22 Jun 2007

  This movie was absolutely terrible.Why? Well, first, let me say it was poorly written. It felt like it went for five hours, and when I thought it was over, somehow, the incompetent police let the bad guys escape with the girl. These are the same group of police who trashed Miami and gunned down many, many people on several occasions and still had their jobs at the end of the day. This is not fun. This is stupid.The use of the "f" word is usually to ADD to a script, it's not half of the entire script. There are too many skits which aren't FUNNY. Laughing at a female cadaver isn't funny. It merely highlights the sloppy script.Implausibility is the name of the day here - nothing makes any sense. There is no logic. The film has a strong smell of "anti-drug" propaganda which pervades it like a hooker's funk. This foul stench goes through every aspect of the film. They even repeat jokes which weren't funny the first time. So you can't remember the words to "Bad Boys" (the song), so what? Go and make real movies, you punks.Michael Bay likes to use really fast camera shots to make the action more interesting than it is. It doesn't work. Will Smith's character is extremely arrogant, and he seriously needs some acting lessons by the way he plays his part, it looks like he ad-libs the script and knocks over props, whereas Lawrence's character has had enough (probably of the franchise) and wants out. I don't blame him. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to be a part of this disaster.Action movies do not come any more costly than this movie - it went into incredible special effects which were just for eye candy and were mind-numbingly dull. Over the top, BORING car-chase scenes which feel like they take up hours of your time will ruin your day. The gun-fights are ludicrous - the heroes (not one of the main characters, mind you) will get shot once in the leg or something while all the bad-guys get nailed.Haven't we seen this before? Oh, yes, in every single other action film. The movie is a complete rip-off of every other better action movie ever made (name one). Bay has even re-used some of the terrible story in The Island, which, for my money, was MILES ahead of this garbage. Bad Boys 2 is utterly derivative and all traces of it should be wiped from our history. Just think - in millions of years, if somebody finds this planet and find traces of this movie, they'll think that we humans never amounted to anything but mindless violence and poor dialogue and a movie that should've ended half an hour before it did.This bloody movie has reignited my anger disorder. I hate it more than words can describe.To sum up - do NOT watch this film if you have ANY self-respect. It is a blemish, not only on films, but on society as a whole. HORRIBLE. -10/10 stars - worse than ANYTHING ELSE - EVER. Having one's fingernails removed with pliers is like a party game compared to this rubbish. Unfortunately, I have to rate it 1 on this site, as it doesn't have negative numbers in its rating scale.

• As Lame as it is Extreme posted on 20 Jun 2007

  Final Score: 3.2 (out of 10)I've been holding out hope and standing up for director Michael Bay since 'The Rock', but with 'Bad Boys II', Bay, superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer and, what the hell let's throw Smith and Lawrence in there too, finally go over the edge. The movie is essentially one big, long - very long at 2 1/2 bloated hours - barrage of episodic set pieces strung loosely together by the thinnest of common plotlines. The refreshing idea here, at least in its concept, is the casting of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Not only are they both black, which goes against the color-coded template of mis-matched cop movies, but they are typically comedic actors. Seeing these two trading wisecracks and getting down to business to bust street scum was what was so intriguing and fun about the first Bad Boys.In Bad Boys II, Smith and Lawrence's characters seem to have been stripped down at the same time the plot was blown up to a ridiculously bloated proportion. As Miami cops, they relationship mostly consists of constant feuding, their dialogue little more then yelling about how crazy the other one is. They are constantly reveling in their own antics over how much destruction they will/did cause. Bay chops up the action scenes with that music video style of his (Michael Bay is the director that McG wants to be) making them into frenzied, unexciting, undecipherable close-ups of faces and tires, probably to compensate for the fact that he drags the scenes beyond the attention span of his target audience (and people complained about the chase in The Matrix Reloaded). No chase scene in this movie is a fraction as fun and exciting as the one in 'Terminator 3' or a few weeks ago. All of this would be well and good if the movie were any fun. But it just isn't. Bay pounds any potential fun or excitement out of it - and keeps just keeps pounding. And this is normally the type of movie that is right up my ally.But as overkilled as the endless chases and shootouts are they aren't nearly as lame as the comedy. Tacky and long, bits feature our heroes being caught on tape in a conversation filled with homosexual double entendres and Lawrence accidentally ingesting some of the drugs where typical goofball hilarity supposedly ensues. We've seen this stuff all before. But the genera hits an all time low when our heroes head to a funeral home to rummage around in cadavers for smuggled drugs. Again they revel in their creepy antics while we get lingering shots of livers and open brains. Before that, Bay drops the bodies out the back of a truck during a chase and one of their heads' pop off like a Ken doll - and he does if as if he's staging a joke. I like dark comedy, as this tries to be, but good dark comedy is applied with a fine touch - not Bay and Bruckheimer beating us over the head with their sledgehammer style. They also squeezes in the now tired Bruckheimer target of New Age therapy by having Lawrence chanting and psycho-babbling on to relieve stress. The target is lame and stationary and it is done all the time in movies like this.I liked the movie when it started. I liked the opening scene of Smith and Lawrence caught in a standoff at a Klan rally. That's a post-modern view Bay and his writers have that they can utilize the KKK as villains, almost generic villains, in a goofball action/comedy (even one as dark as this). I like the fact that the villains in this movie, again only in the basic concept level, are real world evils like Klansmen and Columbian drug dealers - as opposed to phony movie villains. I personally like the idea of Klansmen being used as goofball stock movie villains, instead of being depicted as a powerful, foreboding force to be feared as in other movies. Another nice little post-modern idea of the movie is it's targets of ridicule. Instead of cracking jokes on the `single and lonely' people it shows the player, Will Smith, as more of the hero and the married with children family man, Lawrence, as the butt of the jokes. It brutally makes fun of a kid going on his first date - another typical sacred cow for movies. In this one example it's Roger Ebert, who spent much of his review calling the scene cruel, who is the one a step behind Bay. It exemplifies the generation gap of this type of comedy.While I'm on the plus side, I will say that in all the sound and fury Bay does get off a few good individual shots. The spin-move around the fireplace (see in the commercial) is the coolest visual scene in the movie - and even that is just Bay emulating David Fincher. The 3rd act - which seems like an entirely separate movie - is the best of the long action vignettes and I like the way the master villain (the only connecting element in the plot) finally checks out. Now that is good gore. The music from Dr. Dre and composer Trevor Rabin (Deep Blue Sea) is very effective. Easily the best part of the movie. It's in these all-to-brief moments when I thought the film might turn into something. However, during it's pummeling 3 hours I found all the tolerance and benefit-of-the-doubt I had for this thing evaporated with each passing scene. There is definitely a place for mindless action movies like this, but 'Bad Boys II' is an example of an utter failure. If Bay really wanted to have fun he would have given us a little more of gorgeous Gabrielle Union and a little less gore.