Advantages: Witty humour from Smith and Lawrence Disadvantages: Rushed plot and not a patch on the first movie...
Director: Michael Bay.
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Writers: Ron Shelton, Jerry Stahl, Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley
Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jordi Mollá, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle and Joe Pantoliano.
Released by Columbia pictures in the summer of 2003, eight years after the original action/ comedy movie, being nearly 2 and a half hours long.
It is a known fact, (in my head anyway) , that many well established movies, which when first released, managed to create a rather large fan base due to its shear entertainment value, will always try and spawn a sequel or two in the hope that it will be as good, if not better than its forerunner ?
And as many sequels fall far short in that entertainment value this sequel to the 1995 hit ?BadBoys? had a very high mountain to climb, considering ...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Bad Boys 2 (DVD)
Advantages: Fuuny and full of action Disadvantages: None
BadBoys was made and released in 1995. The follow up was BadBoys II and the films main stars are Will Smith who plays Mike Lowrey and Martin Lawrence who plays Marcus Burnett.
A large stash of heroin has somehow been taken from the police headquarters. Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano) gives the boys 4 days to find the stash before Internal Affairs threaten to take over. To add to the chase of the missing heroin, they get a crazed call from Julie (Tea Leoni) who has witnessed the murder of one of Mike Lowrey?s good friends. The only problem is that when she calls the station Mike is nowhere to be seen. The Captain insists that Marcus take on the girl and in doing so he will have to forgo his normal status of the married man and make out he is Mike Lowrey for however long it takes. When Marcus realises that Julie is in danger and is ...
Advantages: Great on screen relationships, fast paced action, good acting Disadvantages: Main story line is un believable and weak - but that is Hollywood
Written by Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley and Ron Shelton, and directed by Michael Bay, BadBoys 2 was the long awaited sequel to BadBoys. This film was released in October 2003.
****Story line****
Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano), chief of the Miami Police Departments narcotics team have a new assignment for Mike Lowry (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) that involves stopping the flow of ecstasy in Miami. In this assignment Mike and Marcus encounter the most dangerous criminal they have ever had to face in the form of Cuban drug baron, Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla).
Un-be known to Mike and Marcus Sydney Lawrence (Gabrielle Union) Marcus?s sister is working in an undercover operation to stop money laundering and is well know to Tapia.
Tapia becomes aware something is not right as the two assignments clash ...
