Bad Boys
£8.60
Released:01/06/2010
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Studio:Sony Pictures
Director:Michael Bay
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Lisa Boyle, Michael Taliferro, Emmanuel Xuereb
Running Time:118 minutes
Amazon.co.uk Review
Slick to a fault, this glossy action flick takes place in sunny Florida, where Martin Lawrence and Will Smith play two cops--one married with kids, the other a swinging bachelor. The two are forced to trade places to foil criminal mastermind Fouchet (Tchéky Karyo) who has stolen $100 million worth of heroin from a police lockup. Violent, illogical and filled with wall-to-wall profanity, Bad Boys was the last film produced by the hit-making team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer before Simpson's untimely death and marked the directorial debut of Michael Bay who followed up with The Rock. Bad Boys will be of interest to action buffs and fans of Téa Leoni, who makes one of her early screen appearances in the central supporting role. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.co.uk Review
The film that very much put director Michael Bay on the map, Bad Boys did little harm either for the starring duo of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. And while one of those two actors has gone on to do just a little bit better than the other, there’s little doubt that the seeds of Bay’s directing style are all present and correct here.
Thus, subtlety goes out of the window, and massive action sequences and wise-cracking ensues. And to be fair, Bad Boys is very good at these. If you want easy, big budget entertainment, Michael Bay is very much your director, and this is one of his better films.
It’s somewhat inevitably a solid home cinema workout, too, with Bad Boys always likely to be a strong candidate for a catalogue Blu-ray release. So it proves. From the speaker-shredding explosions to the vibrancy of the action captured by Bay’s camera, this is a loud, brash and intense workout for any half-decent home cinema equipment. That it’s tied to a fun, rewatchable action flick makes it a solid, all-round package, and the kind of disc you might just find yourself reaching for time and time again. --Jon Foster
