Bad Boys takes the often-traveled road, and leads the audience to a dead end.
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01/01/00
Bad Boys (1995)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:16
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) is a happily married family man. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) is a smooth-talking bachelor. Both are cops in the narcotics division of the Miami police department. When... [More]
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tcheky Karyo
Director: Michael Bay
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Reviews for Bad Boys
Top CriticCrowd-pleasing, energetic action comedy.
01/13/04
This movie is so good-looking it deserves a decent screenplay, instead of one more lope down memory lane.
01/01/00
Top CriticBad Boys is certainly pretty, and it's only boring if you think too hard.
01/01/00
Nice to look at, the film's glum Miami Vice plot is subverted by the jiggy flavour of a film that’s nothing more than an excuse for Martin Lawrence and Will Smith to play cops and robbers for two hours.
01/01/00
The entire film is filled with headache-inducing closeups, chaotic camera moves and quick edits.
01/01/00
A pretty amusing shoot'em-up.
01/01/00
Bad Boys is relentless formulaic fodder for the explosion-starved; it's loud, shallow, sexist and a complete waste of time.
01/01/00
Top CriticCall me crazy, I'm recommending Bad Boys, especially for fans of heavy metal monster movies.
01/01/00
A good half-hour's worth of nonsense in the middle keeps Bad Boys from being little better than a break- even proposition.
01/01/00
Top CriticCompetent yet asinine.
01/01/00
Plays less like the gritty action-comedy picture it aspires to be and more like a disingenuous 126 minutes of slick Hollywood inanities, a cobbled-together series of flashy explosions and none-too-witty banter.
01/01/00
Even by the low-low standards of cheap action flicks, this one's bad, boys.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's all special-effects noise and nonsense.
05/12/01
Top CriticGiven how much good Bad Boys is going to do for Martin Lawrence's feature career, it's a pity the film couldn't do any more for itself.
02/13/01
Top CriticHighly entertaining but ridiculously forgettable.
07/16/03
Le résultat final se veut certes vide, prévisible et terriblement artificiel. Mais bon, il s'est déjà fait bien pire, et surtout moins amusant.
02/05/08
Surprisingly enjoyable action comedy.
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