After the first Bad Boys film became a commercial hit, the sequel came out eight years later. This time, director Michael Bay got significantly more money to burn off excessive action fireworks. While Bad Boys cost $19 million, the sequel cost a whopping $130 million!
If you don’t know Bad Boys II yet or want to watch it again, VOX will broadcast the film on Thursday evening at 10:25 p.m. The significantly higher budget is also noticeable in the runtime, because the sequel lasts a proud two and a half hours. One is created Action inferno with transgressive interludeswhich are hardly imaginable nowadays.
Bad Boys II cranks up the action excess to the max
In the sequel, cop duo Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are tasked with stopping a drug cartel that is shipping massive amounts of ecstasy to Miami. The argumentative police couple gets caught up in a brutal drug gang war that requires a lot of gun violence.
Compared to Part 2, the first Bad Boys film almost seems like a moderate character drama. Michael Bay definitely used the high budget to an excessively cynical battle of materials according to the higher-faster-further principle to stage. With its typical video clip style, fast cuts and glaring color filters, Bad Boys II becomes an extremely brutal action spectacle that repeatedly overshoots the mark on purpose.
The film’s humor is imperative to the parade of cynical headshots, macho clichés, body bags scattered on the street and a particularly tasteless hide-and-seek sequence to smooth in the autopsy.
Bad Boys II is clearly a child of its time and would no longer be conceivable in the way it was made in Hollywood’s studio system today. Everyone can decide for themselves whether that is good or bad.
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