Bad Boys II | | Cast : | Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Gabrielle Union | | Director : | Michael Bay | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 18, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | December 09, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | Martin and Will are better than this.......they really are....the rats were horrible..... | Content
 | If you are considering purchase of this movie, I would like for you to make your own decision as to if you shall purchase it. This is simply my opinion. I enjoy watching re-runs of Martin and the Fresh Prince, and in my opinion Martin Lawrence and Will Smith are two of the greatest black comedians. The first Bad Boys film was spectacular. The two blended together to bring the same hilarious personalities they had in their shows to the screen for an action film. However, Bad Boys II was a massive train wreck. Explosion, after explosion, after explosion, after explosion; then the scene with the rats having sex.
The explosions became boring because you know every five or six minutes something is going to implode or explode in the film. As for the rats, I was disgusted. Sure, as adults we can handle seeing sex, but what was the humor in seeing rats having sex? What was so funny about two molded rats (who probably were carrying the bubonic plague) bounce on each other as if they are in a porn film?
I was waiting on Martin to do the CDC a favor and shoot both of them, but he never did. And then, Will wasn't funny at all. Will's character seemed more like a pompous jerk who was so full of himself he could write an egocentric bible. "In the beginning, there was Mike Lowrey, and then Mike was bored so he made the world. Thus Mike is our creator and can do as he pleases and you cannot express any disagreement with him because he is the heavenly Mike Lowrey." Will is a great actor, and I love to watch his show. But in this film, he acted as if he was God himself. Sorry Will, but they made your character an egocentric god who walks the earth as a cop. In the first Bad Boys, he did not have a god complex.
Oh, don't let me forget the theme music. The theme was so horrible, it sounded as if some drunk hip hop artist stepped in a studio and mixed a tape of a bass beat and a screaming native american together. Another reviewer put it simple: You can't tell who the bad guys are. That is true because you really can't. Will and Martin acted as if they could be dealers on the side. If you want to buy this film, then go ahead, I hope you enjoy it. But in my opinionthis was a horrible film. What is next? A Bad Boys III? Will the rats know any new sex positions? Only hollywood knows. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | One of the best chases in movie history | Content
| Filmmakers are being continually challenged to come up with new and inventive ways to stage a car chase, and for my money one of the best comes in this hit action sequel.
Towards the beginning of this movie our intrepid heroes are trying to save Sydney, a DEA agent (who just happens to be the New York-based sister of one of the Miami cops - don't ask) from a pursuing gang of Haitian thugs.
Problem is, after a messy gun battle (which seems to have employed more bullets than in a small war) the thugs give chase to the DEA agents SUV in one of those trucks used for transporting new cars to dealers (you know the type).
As Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's characters (Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett) try to keep pace, the thugs attempt to throw off the chasing police units by releasing and hurling cars down the ramps of the trailer and into the street. Thus we have a chase that not only involves the standard dodging of cars in the roadway, but also the dodging of flying and tumbling vehicles.
It's a white-knuckle ride and full marks go to Michael (The Rock) Bay and team in creating another great car chase culled from a simple idea.
In fact the action scenes and shoot-em-ups are really what save this 147-minute movie. Inevitably meant to try to grab the same crowd that flocked to see the LETHAL WEAPON cop-buddy movies, the teaming of Smith and Lawrence unfortunately seem to lack the broad audience appeal that made Gibson and Glover a success.
There's a good deal of gore in this picture to. One of the bloodiest we have involves the main villain (a Cuban drug kingpin) delivering a Russian mobster's brother to him in pieces, dismembered limbs sticking out of barrel.
There are also some comic-misfires in this movie. One of the most obvious examples of this involves Marcus and Mike harassing the 15-year old date for Marcus's daughter. Instead of finding the situation humorous as the filmmakers probably intended, one is instead left feeling sorry for the young man and angry at the two leads.
The movie also serves up the now cliched angry police chief who in this picture is portrayed by Joe Pantoliano.
The climax to the movie, though staged excellently and followed with another thrill a minute chase, this time down a small mountain, is so improbable, but oh so exciting. The setting is Cuba and involves an incursion to rescue Sydney launched by members of the CIA, DEA, Coast Guard, and Miami P.D.
All in all this movie is worth watching for the sheer spectacle of its action sequences. Recommended.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 29, 2005 | | Summary | Good action movie, but a little too long. | Content
| Everything about Bad boys 2 was action packed, it was fun to see in the theaters when it first came out. The only thing though is it was just a little too long, and the scene where Mike Lowery, and Marcus were caught in the middle of all that gun fire where they caught those drug dealers in the middle of traffic, that scene they could have left out, or it didn't have to go on as long as it did. Another thing I couldn't really understand, is why would they come out with a sequel almost ten years later? As far as the story line was concerened, it was just okay, I just think they went a little too far with all the shooting and blowing up stuff. At the end it seemed more like a movie about a war. Overall it's deffinitely entertaining, and if you're the kind of person who enjoys alot of action then this would be the movie for you. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | Good Boys 2 | Content
| Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are police partners they a lot of stopping crime in Miami. Especially tring to stop a drug lord name Johnney Tapia smuggling drugs from cuba to America by using dead bodies. Gabriella Union is DEA who's been undercover and tring to take Tapia down if Will and Martin quit interfearing. She has been kidnaped into cuba in the end. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | GOOD FILM BECAUSE OF MARTIN LAWRENCE | Content
| Not as good as the first movie but still very enjoyable - especially for the die-hard action fan - plenty of gun fights and car chases to keep the adrenalin pumping.
Will Smith is terrible in this movie - he's trying to be a male model instead of an actor. Martin Lawrence is funny as ever. |
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