Bad Boys II
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| Bad Boys II | |
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| Directed by | Michael Bay |
| Produced by | Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Written by | Ron Shelton Jerry Stahl |
| Starring | Martin Lawrence Will Smith Jordi Mollà Gabrielle Union Peter Stormare Theresa Randle Joe Pantoliano |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | United States: July 18, 2003 |
| Running time | 147 min. |
| Language | English Spanish |
| Budget | $130,000,000 |
| Preceded by | Bad Boys |
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Bad Boys II is a 2003 action comedy film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys.
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[edit] Plot
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In this sequel Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are now detective lieutenants of the Tactical Narcotics Team of Miami PD. They are investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami after breaking up a Ku Klux Klan rally wherein Lowrey accidentally shoots Burnett in the buttocks which, combined with Lowrey's apparent propensity for violence, becomes a point of contention between the two throughout most of the film.
Their search leads to a dangerous and neurotic Cuban kingpin named Johnny Tapia (Jordi Mollà), whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has sparked an underground war between Tapias crew and the Russian Mob.
Meanwhile there is a relationship between Lowrey and Burnett's sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union), who also happens to be undercover with the DEA. Syd has gone undercover as a banker for one of Tapia's associates. When the deal goes awry after a Haitian gang ambush, Burnett and Lowrey save Syd during a spectacular gun battle/freeway chase. When they ask Syd what she was doing being involved in the case, she refuses to tell them about it because she is under strict orders from the DEA not to discuss any information with the Miami Police Department because they have been reported to have too many leaks. In an unfortunate turn of events, Syd is captured by Johnny Tapia and taken to Cuba.
When the DEA refuses to take any action, Burnett and Lowrey along with their team of mostly ex-Delta commandos, prepare a plan to recover Syd from Tapia's capture. They construct two tunnels from a safe house owned by Lowrey and Burnett's colleague's brother (a member of Alpha 66) located directly opposite Tapia's mansion in Cuba. The first tunnel would allow several members from their team to surface in the garden of the mansion and take out the security room on the side of the mansion. The second tunnel intercepted the escape tunnel from the mansion in the case that Tapia planned to escape or if the CIA and other team members needed to escape, they could leave through an alternative route.
A RC car with video cameras attached to the top moves around the garden along the pool line to a group of soldiers who are playing Soccer. After attracting the curiosity of the soldiers, the vehicle explodes blowing the soldiers into the air.
A long gunfight ensues and eventually the Cuban military arrive outnumbering the team. An explosive named "Tapia house gift" is placed in the house and is detonated, destroying the house. However, the explosion cuts Burnett and Lowrey from their escape route and they come under fire from the Cuban military. Lowrey says they should resort to "Plan B" which had not been discussed or outlined. After a short-lived argument between Burnett and Lowrey. Syd encourages them to stop fighting and get on with it.
Lowrey breaks into a yellow Hummer H2 and drives it through the wreckage of the house. They are soon followed by another van through a drug-making area in the form of a shanty town on the side of a hill. The vehicles cause the solutions in these buildings to mix which cause explosionss.
After the long car chase they end at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. As Marcus and Syd plead with the soldiers at the lookout post, they are told they are standing in the middle of a minefield which is demonstrated by an iguana treading on the spikes just above the surface and finally exploding.
A gunfight erupts between Tapia and Lowrey with Tapia's friend becoming involved. Tapia then takes Lowrey and puts a gun to his head, threatening Syd and Burnett. Syd throws her gun on top of a mine close to Carlos (Otto Sanchez) and he gets killed. Burnett takes the opportunity and shoots Tapia in the head. Tapia's body then falls on a mine and explodes, charring the body into pieces. However, Lowrey remains alive and praises Burnett for his impeccable aim and tells him that he hopes his next partner shoots that well. Back at Burnett's home it is revealed that they are to remain partners as Burnett shredded the papers. It is also revealed that Lowrey bought Burnett a new pool, but it too breaks. Burnett and Lowrey end up in the water and start singing the Bad Boys song.
[edit] Cast
- Martin Lawrence as Detective Marcus Burnett
- Will Smith as Detective Mike Lowrey
- Jordi Mollà as Hector Juan Tapia
- Gabrielle Union as Syd
- Peter Stormare as Alexei
- Theresa Randle as Theresa
- Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard
- Jason Manuel Olazabal as Vargas
- Yul Vazquez as Reyes
- Kiko Ellsworth as Blondie Dreads
- Henry Rollins as TNT Leader
- Dan Marino as himself
[edit] Reaction
[edit] Box office
The film was a success in the United States Box Office. It made $138 million, enough to cover the production budget, and $273 million worldwide, which was more than the original movie.[1]
[edit] Critical response
The film was a financial success, but received generally poor reviews. Film critic Richard Roeper named it 1st place on his list of the worst films of 2003. Some critics described it as misanthropic, hateful, and cruel[citation needed], with critic Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine calling it "evil".[2] The film was also criticized for being overly long with a runtime of 147 minutes.
There were positive notices though, particularly from Seattle Post-Intelligencer critic Ellen A. Kim, who wrote that the film was "...an unabashed guilty pleasure." The film was also praised by many critics and viewers for its action sequences and visual effects.
[edit] Awards
At the MTV Movie Awards 2004 the film was nominated for "Best Action Sequence" for the inter-costal 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] 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. Many people have said that it is far too easy and shooting deliberately away from an enemy still kills them in about two or three shots. The game received very negative reviews by magazines and it has been called one of the worst film to game flops.[3] The game was rated #10 Worst game of the "Best and Worst Video Games of all Time".[4]
[edit] Bad Boys III
On July 18,2007 Bay told MTV he was open to making a Bad Boys threequel, "Will Smith's people called. They're fun to work with, those guys. I actually heard it through Bruckheimer. Yeah [I'd be open to it], they're great fun."[5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=badboys2.htm
- ^ http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=735
- ^ http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/badboys2/readers.FDSAFAShtml
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgM3xfG-6lA
- ^ http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1552462/20070214/story.jhtml Michael Bay Divulges 'Transformers' Details — And Word Of 'Bad Boys III'
[edit] External links
- Official site at Sony Pictures
- The filming location Detectives have sleuthed Bad Boys 2
- Bad Boys II at the Internet Movie Database
- Bad Boys II at Rotten Tomatoes
- Bad Boys II at Box Office Mojo
- Bad Boys II at Yahoo! Movies
| Preceded by "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" | List of Box Office #1 Movies July 20 2003 | Succeeded by "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" |
Films directed by Michael Bay |
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| Bad Boys • The Rock • Armageddon • Pearl Harbor • Bad Boys II • The Island • Transformers • Transformers 2 |
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