Bad Boys II

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Bad Boys II

Theatrical poster
Directed by Michael Bay
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Written by Screenplay:
Ron Shelton
Jerry Stahl
Story:
Marianne Wibberley
Cormac Wibberley
Ron Shelton
Starring Martin Lawrence
Will Smith
Jordi Mollà
Gabrielle Union
Peter Stormare
Theresa Randle
Joe Pantoliano
Music by Trevor Rabin
Cinematography Amir Mokri
Editing by Mark Goldblatt
Thomas A. Muldoon
Roger Barton
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) July 18, 2003
Running time 147 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $130,000,000
Gross revenue $273,339,556
Preceded by Bad Boys

Bad Boys II is a 2003 action-comedy film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys.

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[edit] Plot

Eight years later, Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) head a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami, after breaking up a Ku Klux Klan rally where in Mike accidentally shoots Marcus in the buttocks which, combined with Mike's apparent propensity for violence, becomes a point of contention between the two throughout most of the film.

Meanwhile, neurotic Cuban kingpin named "Johnny" Tapia (Jordi Molla)'s plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war with the local Russian Mafia. The Russians, Alexei and Abdulla, receive drugs from Tapia to run their nightclub businesses, but had to give nearly half of their profits to Tapia. Their attempt to renegotiate ends in Josef's death and loss of their business to Tapia.

Meanwhile, a relationship starts to form between Mike and Syd (Gabrielle Union), Marcus' sister, who also happens to be undercover with the DEA as a money laundering agent for the Russians. During her first assignment the Zoe pounders, a Haitian gang, attempt to hijack the transport and kill Syd. A massive fire fight ensues between the gang members and the Miami Police/DEA and devastates the local area. Marcus and Mike, who happened to be observing the Zoe pounders, learn of Syd's actual work, and Marcus is not happy.

Marcus and Mike confront the Haitian gang leader and find out about The Spanish Palms Mortuary, a business run by Tapia's Mother, is being used to smuggle drugs in and out of Miami. Disguised as pest terminators, they penetrate Tapia's mansion and find out that Tapia is using dead bodies in the mortuary to smuggle his drugs and money to Cuba. Syd, still undercover with the DEA, has successfully charmed Tapia but is found out, captured and taken to Cuba.

Mike and Marcus, along with their team,composed of ex-Delta Force commandoes prepare a plan to recover Syd from Tapia's capture. A long gunfight ensues and eventually the Cuban military arrive outnumbering the team. As Tapia's newly built house is destroyed by a bomb with his Mother and Daughter inside, Mike, Marcus and Syd manage to escape, pursued by the infuriated Tapia. After a lengthy car chase they end up at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. As Marcus and Syd plead with the soldiers, a gunfight erupts between Tapia and Mike. Marcus gets the opportunity to fire his last bullet and shoots Tapia in the head, narrowly missing Mike's. Tapia's body falls on a mine and his corpse explodes.

Later, at the Burnett house, Mike has bought Marcus a new pool, and Marcus finally comes to peace with Mike dating his sister, Syd. He even tears up the transfer papers he was going to put in, which would have ended their partnership. However, the pool breaks again, washing the two into the river, as they sing the "Bad Boys" theme song from 'Cops'. (still forgetting the actual words like before)

[edit] Cast

[edit] Production

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  • The car chase through the hillside town in Cuba was inspired by a near identical scene in the beginning of Jackie Chan's Police Story.
  • Director Michael Bay makes a brief cameo in the film as the driver of the run-down compact car the main characters attempt to commandeer before deciding on a 'nicer' vehicle nearby (a Cadillac driven by Dan Marino.)
  • In the car chase in Miami, Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) drives a Ferrari 575 Maranello.
  • Tapia is also seen to drive a Ford Fiesta in the middle of the film.

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical reception

The film received mostly negative reviews, and was the subject of some vicious criticism for its excessive running time, needless brutality, convoluted story, misogynistic depiction of women and glorification of violence.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of a possible four stars, especially offended by one scene involving a teenage boy and the use of the "n-word" citing, "The needless cruelty of this scene took me out of the movie and into the minds of its makers. What were they thinking? Have they so lost touch with human nature that they think audiences will like this scene?"[1] It holds a 23% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Nevertheless, the film has garnered some goodwill over the years, having a sort of cult following usually reserved for films of lesser-budgets. On an episode of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, film critic Richard Roeper named it 1st place on his list of the worst films of 2003, he placed notorious bomb Gigli at number 3.

Among the more positive reviews Seattle Post-Intelligencer critic Ellen A. Kim wrote that the film was "mindlessly fun... If you like this type of movie, that is." The film was also praised by a few critics and viewers for its deftly handled action sequences and visual effects.

[edit] Awards

At the MTV Movie Awards 2004 the film was nominated for "Best Action Sequence" for the inter-coastal freeway pursuit, but lost to The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence won the award for "Best On-Screen Team."

[edit] Box office

The film was a financial success in the United States Box Office. It made $138 million domestically and $273 million worldwide, which was more than the original movie.[2]

[edit] In other media

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Bad Boys II (soundtrack)

[edit] Video game

A video game version of the film, known as Bad Boys: Miami Takedown in North America, was released in 2004 on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Windows. Originally planned for release in late 2003 (to tie in with the film's DVD release), the game was pushed back several months. The game failed to deliver any sort of sales or critical acclaim due to poor development; it was given low ratings from many game web sites. The game received very negative reviews by magazines and it has been called one of the worst film to game flops.

[edit] Bad Boys III

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith had so much fun making Bad Boys II, they are lobbying for a third installment. Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer is also hoping to get them back onscreen together. He says, "When we had about two weeks of shooting left to go on Bad Boys II, Will and Martin were having such a good time, they phoned (Columbia studio boss) Amy Pascal and said, 'We want to sign up for another one.' So hopefully we'll get them all back together again."

At the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, Will Smith said to a reporter for Hollyscoop that he had an idea for Bad Boys III, adding; "We need Bad Boys III, but Michael (Bay) is too expensive now. He's way too expensive."

Whilst there is no official announcement, as the first two films were successful at the box office, and Michael Bay has had enormous success directing Transformers, a major studio may finance the film. Michael Bay has expressed interest in working with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence again, saying "I loved working with those guys. It was great fun."[3]

During the scene where Sam is drawing symbols all over the walls of his dorm in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, he writes the number 3 on a Bad Boys II poster.

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Bad Boys II". boxofficemojo.com. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=badboys2.htm. Retrieved on 2008-05-08. 
  3. ^ Michael Bay Talks Transformers, Transformers 2, and Bad Boys 3 - Cinematical

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