BAD BOYS 2 MOVIE

'Action' is fascinating, a style easily derided as mindless that has also produced some of the greatest movies of all time.

BAD BOYS 2 MOVIE

But so much of it is ugly in the light of 2019, from the way it sacrifices any hint of empathy to maintain its macho composure, to the constant humor poking fun at 'gay shit', to the fact that it's, uh, actually just visually ugly.Д«ut Bad Boys II is an effective place-marker in movie history it's basically a big, loud hinge that the modern-day action genre swung on. If Michael Bay is good at one thing, it's taking the non-thinking version of joy a kid gets from smashing toys together and blowing it up to gargantuan levels. That's maybe the most important note to make out of all this: This scene, along with a good portion of the movie, on a purely adrenaline-pumping level, whips ass to this day. Will Smith drives past it and says 'whoo!' and because Will Smith says it, you're also kind of like, 'You know what? Yeah. The scene ends with a massive pyrotechnics display involving a boat straight-up decapitating an innocent car and killing at least a few other cops. Mike deftly dodges all of it in a Porsche Turbo, which is the perfect summary of Bad Boys II, a movie so steadfastly focused on being cool as shit at all times it doesn't ever dwell on the badass destruction it's causing. Dudes just trying to get to work in Fort Lauderdale end up flipping through the air in a Toyota Camry like 16 times. As the baddies literally launch cars on to the road, so many faceless pedestrians and police officers get caught up in the chaos. Nor is he too bothered by collateral damage. For a filmmaker as obsessed with sexiness as Michael Bay, he's not too concerned with foreplay here. It's important to note, when discussing the way Michael Bay paces his movies, that this genuinely insane, near-15-minute set piece arrives less than 30 minutes into the movie. The entire vibe of Bad Boys II is distilled into its most famous scene, an elaborate car chase on the Miami freeway in which Mike and Marcus speed after a crew of Haitian hitmen who have commandeered a vehicle transport truck.

Bad Boys II was the first time the world got a bump of full-force, uncut Bay.В Smith and Lawrence were the same characters, the story had a nearly identical drug kingpin to take down, but the runtime had ballooned, the cinematography had the spins, and the action was ramped to near-incomprehensible level. Bay moved on to The Rock-objectively his best movie, proven by science-then Armageddon, then Pearl Harbor, and in 2003 returned to the world of Bad BoysВ with a newfound enthusiasm for lens flare, gratuitous butt shots, and wanton on-screen property damage. With Will Smith and Martin Lawrence gearing up for one last ride-this time without Bay in the director's chair-it's the perfect time to look back not only at Bad Boys II, but also the ways it morphed entire action genre in the years after Michael Bay threw a speedboat into its face many moons ago.Д«ut first, a brief recap: The first Bad BoysВ was Bay's feature directorial debut, a perfectly enjoyable action flick anchored by the dynamite chemistry between leads Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, playing Miami narcotics detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett as they track $100 million worth of heroin. And since he's mostly failed, Bad Boys II would've remained a fascinating time capsule into a very different time and nothing more if a sequel, Bad Boys For Life, wasn't hitting theaters a whopping 17 years later. It is, undoubtedly, the peak of Bayhem Mountain, and I'm pretty sure Michael Bay has been chasing that knife-edge balance between cinematic coolness and cruelty ever since. It is a chaotic sonnet composed on a Monster Energy Drink can. Bad Boys II is a disaster portrait painted by an artist with uzis for hands. The closest comparison possible to director Michael Bay's 2003 buddy-action sequel would be if you force-fed a computer nothing but John Woo movies and then made it direct a Limp Bizkit video. There is no discernible difference between doing cocaine and watching the film Bad Boys II.

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