SummaryWill Smith and Martin Lawrence are back -- and oh so bad -- on the streets of Miami in Bad Boys II, reuniting them with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. (Sony Pictures)
Directed By:Michael Bay
Written By:George Gallo, Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley, Ron Shelton, Jerry Stahl
Bad Boys II
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
38
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Generally Favorable
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
38
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75
Watching a Bruckheimer with natural comics like Smith and Lawrence makes it all go down easily. If you like this type of movie, that is.
67
Though the picture has a generic quality, it also has an ingenious amount of anything-goes that's amusing and frequently exciting. You'll laugh out loud, you'll hide your eyes -- but you'll roll them. too. Nevertheless, it's a fun, if blood- and sun-soaked, ride.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.6
57% Positive
162 Ratings
162 Ratings
30% Mixed
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13% Negative
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
Dec 1, 2021
10
How can this movie be 4 out of 10 ?? This is the action extravaganza you are always asking but since it´s not from the filmmaker´s you like you say it´s trash.
Jan 29, 2015
10
It's been almost 12 years since Bad Boys II hit theatres, and blew my mind. I don't even remember the noisy first movie, I just didn't like it that much, even though it has higher ratings. Bad Boys II completely changes the game by throwing in more drugs, sex and stupendously bloody violence, and boy was it entertaining. Michael Bay is one of the most disliked directors, okay, but with BB2 he totally has realized a new genre of action thrillers on their own, for example- the car chases are the most best chases I have ever seen in a movie. He blends Lethal Weapon and Boyz In Da Hood and Pineapple Express together, and experiments with his movie elements. The result is a lush Miami setting, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence at their comedic best, a drug fulled story, car and gun chases, and sgexy women. What more could you want from an action movie. It's not a movie for serious critics or people who don't like action movies. BB2 is a hidden classic action flick, it's well paced, smartly written and brilliantly acted. The appeal is beautiful. And it still technically holds up in 2015. I hope the third one is good! The nose fun you will have watching a movie, period.
50
Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it.
40
As overblown as it is overlong, Bad Boys II is an enervating case of more is less.
38
The apotheosis of adolescent junk. Every sequence spews or splats carnage-filled effects. It's over-the-top, but not pleasurably so -- it's calculatedly over-the-top. The only way to get off on it is to revel in its prodigal waste of materiel.
25
It's basically the longest (a butt-numbing 21/2 hours), the most expensive (a reportedly obscene $150 million), most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of "Miami Vice" ever.
0
Bad Boys II has everything. Everything loud, dumb, violent, sexist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay can think of puking up onscreen.
Jun 14, 2014
10
Possibly one of the worst movies ever. But it is funny as hell, and everyone (par any people of nervous dispositions) should watch this. Probably not worth buying, but one of the best, worst films, of all time.
Jun 25, 2020
6
Michael Bay takes his ideas from the first film and makes it feel like you're on some drug rush fueled action movie. Bad Boys II is an film of been a sequel that is filled with nothing but shooting, explosions (outlandish action scenes that sometimes don't fit), strobe-light effects and humor. Also some of facts over MDMA which sound silly at best I mean at least it was a robbery in the previous film. Lawrence and Smith's iconic comedic duo keep this going since the first film.
Mar 29, 2020
6
A Michael Bay sequel that boils down to the same net quality as its predecessor, but with some of the key variables shifted around. Compared to "Bad Boys," "Bad Boys II" is greatly improved from an action and kinetics standpoint, with the set pieces cumulatively comprising the film's greatest attribute in my opinion. I personally relished in that of the car carrier trailer/Ferrari chase, a scene that some have complained is too long. Honestly, though, it could have been much longer, so as to keep me further away from the scarcely funny humor and piss poor domestic spats sprinkled amidst the film's runtime. The villains are over the top, the feasibility of everything is rightfully lampoonable and there's a whole host of material that doesn't age well. In short, it's typical, early 2000's Bay, but I'd be a fool for not admitting that it could be a whole lot worse.
Jun 8, 2024
2
Terrible sequel to a bad film. Bad Boys was bad, but watchable and entertaining, but this sequel is just loud, stupid, unfunny, boring and overlong. It’s filled with terrible dialogue, over-the-top cursing, and too many explosions.
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Release Date:Jul 18, 2003
Duration:2 h 27 m
Rating:R
Tagline:If you can't stand the heat, get out of Miami.
Awards
Taurus World Stunt Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 3 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
