Bad Boys II

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Bad Boys II
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 Joe Pantoliano
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	July 18, 2003
Running time	147 min.
Language	English Spanish
Budget	$130,000,000
IMDb profile

Bad Boys II is a 2003 action comedy film by Michael Bay. It stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 3 Critical Response 4 Soundtrack 5 Video game 6 Awards 7 Trivia 8 Box office 9 Sequel 10 External links

[edit] Synopsis

In this sequel Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey are now detective lieutenants of the Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT) of Miami PD. They are investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami after breaking up a Ku Klux Klan rally wherein Lowrey accidentally shoots Burnett in the behind which, combined with Lowrey'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, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.

Meanwhile there is a relationship between Lowrey and Syd (Burnett's sister), who also happens to be undercover with the DEA. Syd has gone undercover as a banker for one of Tapia's associates. When the deal goes awry, Burnett and Lowrey jumps in and save Syd. When they ask Syd what she was doing being involved in the case, she refuses to tell them about it because she is under strict orders from the DEA not to discuss any information with the Miami Police Department because they have been reported to have too many leaks.

In an unfortunate turn of events, Syd is captured by Johnny Tapia and taken to Cuba.

When the DEA refuses to take any action, Burnett and Lowrey along with their team of commandos, prepare a plan to recover Syd from Tapia's capture. They construct two tunnels from a safe house owned by Lowrey and Burnett's colleague's brother (a member of the Cuban resistance) located directly opposite Tapia's mansion in Cuba. 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 (RC Car) 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 attracting the curiosity of the soldiers, 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 Burnett and Lowrey from their escape route and they come under fire from the Cuban military. Lowrey says they should resort to "Plan B" which had not been discussed or outlined. After a short-lived argument between Burnett and Lowrey. Syd encourages them to to stop fighting and get on with it.

Lowrey breaks into a yellow Hummer H2 and drives it through the wreckage of the house. They are soon followed by another van through a drug-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 lookout post, 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 Lowrey with Tapia's friend becoming involved. Tapia then takes Lowrey and puts a gun to his head, threatening Syd and Marcus. Syd throws her gun on top of a mine close to Carlos (Tapia's friend) and he gets killed. Burnett takes the opportunity and shoots Tapia in the head. Tapia's body then falls on a mine and explodes, charring the body into pieces. However, Lowrey remains alive and praises Burnett for his impecable aim and tells him that he hopes his next partner shoots that good. They get back home and Lowrey buys Burnett a new pool but it too breaks. Burnett and Lowrey end up in the water and start singing the Badboys theme song.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
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] Soundtrack

Main article: Bad Boys II (soundtrack)

[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] Awards

MTV Movie Awards 2004

• Best On-Screen Team (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence)
• Best Action Sequence (Intercoastal Freeway Pursuit)

[edit] Trivia

• Co-written by Jerry Stahl of Permanent Midnight fame.
• 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 Delray Beach, Florida. It was an actual mansion that was scheduled for demolition. The movie bought the rights to use it for their explosion scenes.
• 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).
• Current WBO Heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs has a role in the movie as a Cuban gang member.
• 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".
• In the ending scene, after Marcus shoots Tapia in the head, Mike tells him that "From now on, that's how you shoot." This is a reference to the first Bad Boys movie, where he tells Marcus, "From now on, that's how you drive."
• In the scene where Mike and Marcus are swept by the breaking of the above ground pool, the stunt doubles can be clearly seen if the scene is played in slow motion.
• The picture that was used for Mike's yearbook photo in Marcus' house is an actual yearbook photo of Will Smith, except the braces and large glasses were digitally added.

[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.

[edit] Sequel

Initially, at the time of the second movie the director, Smith and Lawrence expressed interest over making a third movie. However, since then, there has been little word about a potential sequel with cast members tight on other projects.

In January 2006, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said for ComingSoon.net that he will do a third movie if Sony asks him.

In an interview with MTV talking about Transformers, director Michael Bay says he would be interested in taking on Bad Boys III.

"I don't know. Will Smith's people called. They're fun to work with, those guys," he said. Bay added that producer Jerry Bruckheimer told him about Smith's interest.

But would he do it? "Yeah, they're great fun."

[edit] External links

• Official site at Sony Pictures
• Bad Boys II at the Internet Movie Database
• Bad Boys II at Rotten Tomatoes
• Bad Boys II at Box Office Mojo
• Bad Boys II Fansite
• Bad Boys II at Yahoo! Movies

Films directed by Michael Bay
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