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 and Joe Pantoliano |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 18, 2003 |
| Running time | 147 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $130,000,000 |
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Bad Boys II is a 2003 action comedy film by Michael Bay. It stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys.
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[edit] Synopsis
Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami after breaking up a Ku Klux Klan rally wherein Mike accidentally shoots Marcus in the ass which, combined with Mike'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 Molla), whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.
Meanwhile, a relationship starts to form between Mike and Syd (Union), Marcus' sister, who also happens to be undercover with the DEA.
In an unfortunate turn of events Syd is captured by Johnny Tapia and taken to Cuba
Mike and Marcus, along with their team, prepare a plan to recover Syd from Tapia's capture. They construct two tunnels from a safe house owned by a Mike and Marcus's colleague's brother located directly opposite the mansion. 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 remotely operated vehicle with video cameras attached to the top moves around the garden along the pool line to a group of soldiers who are playing football. After enquiring into the ROV, 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 Mike and Marcus from their escape route and they come under fire from the Cuban military. Mike says they should resort to "Plan B" which had not been discussed or outlined. After a short-lived argument between Mike and Marcus, Syd encourages them to follow her.
Mike breaks into a yellow Hummer and drives it through the wreckage of the house. They are soon followed by another van through a drugs 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 explosions.
After the long car chase they end at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. As Marcus and Syd plead with the soldiers at the look outpost, 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 Mike with Tapia's friend becoming involved however is killed by a mine. Tapia then takes Mike and puts a gun to his head threatening Syd and Marcus. Syd throws her gun towards a mine which distracts Tapia. Marcus takes the opportunity and shoots Tapia in the head which kills him. Tapia's body then falls on a mine and explodes charring the body into pieces. However, Mike remains alive.
[edit] Starring
- Martin Lawrence - Detective Marcus Burnett
- Will Smith - Detective Mike Lowrey
- Jordi Mollà - Hector Juan Carlos 'Johnny' Tapia
- Gabrielle Union - Syd
- Peter Stormare - Alexei
- Theresa Randle - Theresa
- Joe Pantoliano - Captain Howard
- Jason Manuel Olazabal - Vargas
- Yul Vazquez - Reyes
[edit] Critical Response
Although a financial success, the film received less than enthusiastic reviews from the majority of distinguished film critics. Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers claimed that the film was "...the cinematic equivalent of toxic waste." Noted film critic Roger Ebert vowed that "Everybody involved in this project needs to do some community service." However, there were a few positive notices, particularly from Seattle Post-Intelligencer critic Ellen A. Kim, who wrote that the film was "...an unabashed guilty pleasure." The film was also criticized by some critics and viewers for its over-the-top violence.
[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. It was not a huge success 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. This game received very negative reviews by magazines and it has been called one of the worst film to game flops.[1] The game was rated #10 Worst game of the "Best and Worst Video Games of all Time" - [2]
[edit] Trivia
- 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, for which the movie has been subjected to heavy criticism.
- The radio chatter sound effects in the first scene are the same ones used in Battlefield: Vietnam's US Helicopters.
- 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.
- The motion sensors used in Tapia's Cuban Mansion are the same ones developed and used by Capt Hendrix in The Rock (1996), also directed by Bay.
- The rat sex scene was supposed to be off-screen but one of the animators made it from boredom and it ended up being in the film. Rats do not mate like humans at all. [citation needed]
- The mansion that is destroyed was located in Highland Beach, Florida
- The taking of Johnny Tapia's Cuban Mansion (and the mansion itself) is heavily based on the resolution of the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Peru, specifically the tunnels, the assault and, humorously, the bomb taking out most of the guards while they were playing football (soccer).
- Most of the yelling and screaming from Smith and Lawrence is ad-libbed including where Lawrence's character is in an intoxicated state.
- Tiara Harris said that she will never play a disturbing role ever again, because she became popular in the Haitian sex tape scene.
- Two of the weapons used by villain characters appear at least twice being used by different people, namely the chrome-plated Remington 870 shotgun and Beretta M92FS pistols. The shotgun first appears wielded by a KKK member then again by one of the Haitians at their hideout while the Berettas first appear with the Haitians at their hideout and then again in Alexei's ill-fated attempt to get revenge on Johnny Tapia.
- Digimon: Digital Monsters appeared in this movie, In which Marcus' daughter was watching the episode Almost Home Free.
[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.
