Bad boys 2
It has all the realism and believability of a Looney Tunes cartoon and if the action doesn't stir or excite you then what exactly is the point? You may as well have placed the estimated $130 million budget into a brazier and set it on fire. It feels like watching the mind of a pyromaniac coming around from powerful anaesthetic. The whole film feels like a one-man power trip with Bay literally blowing up whatever he feels like and reducing his heavyweight comic stars into everyday action heroes. While MollĂ does what he can with the underwritten and stereotypical role as a Cuban drug lord (is there any other kind after Scarface?), the uncomfortable grilling of poor Reggie at the front door doesn't really translate into good cinema. The story is as dumb as they come but still manages to offend with both characters and sequences that feel racist. The amount of comic banter between Smith and Lawrence feels reduced somehow, possibly lost in a tide of explosions and car chases. I know Bay has a reputation for loving explosions but this is one of the most over-the-top films of his career alongside the equally vapid Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. It feels like destruction for the sheer sake of it, as if blowing stuff up is all we wanted to see.
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Each action sequence gets more ridiculous as the film goes on from the cars getting dumped onto the freeway (an idea Bay would repeat a few years later in his misfiring sci-fi flick The Island) to literally driving down a hill full of tin shack slums in a Hummer. For starters, it goes on way too long for a film of this type - action films should barely last 100 minutes or so but this trundles on like The Lord Of The Rings and is just so unnecessary. However generic the film may feel, Bad Boys II does leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth. She plays a kid in a stars-and-stripes bikini playing under a waterfall. The film also features a uncredited cameo by a young Megan Fox in her big screen debut.After Bad Boys II had finished, only the swimming pool remained intact.
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They then advertised the mansion to movie studios to use the plot in filming, providing the building was blown up. Some scenes in the film were shot at a mansion in Delray Beach, Florida that was nearly completed and had stood vacant for years before the new owner bought it.Despite the cars not being damaged during the chase shoot, Lawrence did bash the door against a concrete barrier in a subsequent scene. Two different Ferraris were used during filming, one of which belonged to Bay himself which was used for the more daring stunt work.Simpson and Bruckheimer did produce the original Bad Boys back in 1995. According to IMDb, Bruckheimer is the film's sole producer. The film posters credit producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, despite Simpson having died of heart failure in 1996 at the age of 52.