Bad Boys II Reviews
Bad Boys II review
Posted : 6 months, 4 weeks ago on 24 September 2023 05:510 comments, Reply to this entry
An average movie
Posted : 7 years, 4 months ago on 15 December 2016 01:49I already saw this movie but since it was such a long time ago, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, after watching all these terribly underwhelming transformers sequels, this movie turned out to be actually better than I remembered. Basically, the point is that, so far, all the movies directed by Michael Bay had somehow more or less some redeeming features. With this flick, you had to dig really deep to find something valuable though. At least, I have to admit that Will Smith and Martin Lawrence still had a pretty good chemistry together and the action scenes were decent enough. Still, some of these action scenes were just too long and the final one in Cuba was just rather ridiculous and such an overkill, even for Michael Bay. For the rest, it was just a just a very long, often preposterous and actually sometimes rather boring action flick which was too bad because the 1st installment was actually pretty good. It is interesting to note that it was the last time Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer would work together and since it was their weakest effort so far, it seemed appropriate that they decided to end their partnership. To conclude, I didn’t care much for the damned thing and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of the genre.
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The ultimate guilty pleasure
Posted : 8 years, 5 months ago on 9 November 2015 11:590 comments, Reply to this entry
"Bad Boys II" (2003)
Posted : 10 years, 9 months ago on 17 July 2013 06:40Dear God, this movie sucks! The first Bad Boys had me tearing at my hair every five minutes, but this one fails in an entirely different way.
The plot is that Mike and Marcus have joined the PD's drugs department since movie one, and are investigating an ecstasy shipment.
I've made it abundantly clear that I can't stand Michael Bay's hyper, jumbled direction and editing. Well, here, it's worse than ever before! The action scenes couldn't possibly be less exciting, because half the time you can't even tell where people are in proximity to each other. The lead-in to several of those sequences certainly doesn't help! It's all down to poorly established dialogue that I don't understand or care about.
All the characters returning from the first movie are just as annoying as before. Right from Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's first appearance, I knew I was going to detest them all over again.
The humour is still painfully unfunny. In particular, every joke in both these movies that focuses on corpses is just straight-up tasteless.
There are a couple of good ideas here and there, like the boat on the road, but it just made me wish they were in a better movie.
In conclusion, while it's not as annoying as the first Bad Boys, it is the most insufferably boring Michael Bay movie up until Transformers 2. This movie is two-and-a-half hours long, and believe me, I felt every minute of it!
My rating: turkey
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Absolute waste of time
Posted : 17 years, 4 months ago on 20 December 2006 08:26Sorry, to be fair, I saved my brain cells and turned off this garbage in the first 15 minutes. Did ANY of the thousands of people involved in this production do ANY sort of research on the script? News for the uninformed: the LAST thing you want to do with X (aka E, XTC, ecstasy, or whatever the kids call it these days) is roll it around on your tongue. Those pills taste so bad you want them going straight past your taste glands and wash it down quickly with lots of liquid. And having gone to raves and after-hour clubs back in the day, the scene where people start convulsing and frothing at the mouth after taking a pill, and then club owners dump their bodies in the garbage dumpster, well, I must've missed those clubs. LOL. Part of me almost wanted to keep watching to see what else this ridiculous comedy had in store for me, but i rented a few other movies that day and Bad Boys II got a unanymous toss across the room in near record time.
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