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| Directed by | Michael Bay |
| Produced by | Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Written by | Michael Barrie Jim Mulholland Doug Richardson |
| Starring | Martin Lawrence Will Smith Téa Leoni Tchéky Karyo Theresa Randle Joe Pantoliano |
| Music by | Mark Mancina |
| Cinematography | Howard Atherton |
| Editing by | Christian Wagner |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 7, 1995 |
| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $19 million |
| Gross revenue | $141,407,024 |
| Followed by | Bad Boys II |
Bad Boys is a 1995 Action adventure thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer producers of Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop. The film, starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, spawned a 2003 sequel, Bad Boys II.
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Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are bickering best friends and detectives in the narcotics division of the Miami-Dade Police Department. One night, $100 million of seized heroin is stolen by gangsters from a secure police vault. This is a major blow to Burnett and Lowrey, because it was the biggest drug bust of their careers. Internal Affairs believe it was an inside job and issue an ultimatum—if they do not recover the drugs in five days, the narcotics division will be shut down. It is quickly discovered that one of the gang members was Eddie Domínguez, a former cop, who after helping the criminals circumvent the station's security, has absconded with some of the heroin. Dominguez is shot to death by his boss, French drug kingpin Fouchet (Tchéky Karyo), who also kills escort Maxine "Max" Logan (Karen Alexander), who was hired by Eddie to celebrate the success of the heist. She is also one of Lowery's ex-girlfriends and one of his major informants. The only witness to the crime is Max's best friend Julie Mott (Téa Leoni), who watched from the crime from the upper balcony of the Al Capone suite.
Because of Max's relationship with Mike Lowrey and although she has never met him, Julie will only trust and deal with Lowrey. But he is out of contact when she contacts the police about the murders, she threatens to run. Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano) forces Burnett to impersonate him in order to get Julie to co-operate. In order to continue the deception, Burnett and Lowrey switch lives. Burnett moving into Lowrey's apartment, with Julie and her dogs Luke and Duke. While infamous playboy Lowrey moves in with Burnett's wife and children, claiming to be Burnett in Julie's presence while Burnett claims to be Lowrey. The investigation proceeds with Lowrey and Burnett calling in on their old informants, including Jojo (Michael Imperioli), a former chemist who now works as a mechanic, and attempting to have Julie identify Max's killers. When she recognizes one of the gun men, Noah, the two cops head off to his known hang out, Club Hell for a reconnaissance mission. Unbeknownst to them, Julie has followed, eager to dish out revenge on Max's killers. Her presence alerts the criminals and after a brief ruckus and chase Noah is killed. The incident is caught on camera by a news helicopter overhead. The subsequent news report is later seen by Burnett's family (whom he told he was going to Cleveland to enable him to pose as Lowrey in the first place).
Lowrey and Burnett decide to visit Jojo again, feeling he knows more than he is letting on. Their hunch is proved correct and, after some persuasion from Lowrey, Jojo tells them the location of the chemist who is cutting the stolen drugs to quadruple the value. After staking out his house, they follow him to where Fouchet is hiding the drugs. Returning to Mike's apartment with Julie, they are confronted by Marcus' wife who blows their cover and causing Julie to try and run. Fouchet and his gang of criminals, who followed them back to Lowery's apartment kidnap Julie, despite Burnett and Lowrey's best efforts. Those efforts cause Internal Affairs to reassign all members of the narcotics division, effectively shutting them down, but Captain Howard delays the order to give Lowery and Burnett a chance to get the girl and the drugs back.
Burnett, Lowrey and two other members of the Miami P.D. (Sanchez and Ruiz) organize a plan to stop the criminals from killing Julie and selling the drugs to a Colombian drug lord. A final shoot-out erupts between Burnett, Lowrey and the drug dealers at an abandoned air field. The criminals are eliminated by Burnett, Lowrey, Sanchez and Ruiz. Burnett is shot in the leg after saving Julie from Fouchet. Fouchet also shoots Lowery while escaping the building with is now on fire but he is rescued by Burnett and Julie who left to get Lowrey's Porsche. A final car chase erupts with Fouchet driving a Shelby Cobra AC 327 and Burnett, Lowery and Julie giving chase in a Porche 911 Turbo. After Burnett bumps him off the road, Fouchet crashes but manges to escape the wreckage. Attempting to run, Fouchet is shot in the leg by Lowrey. Fouchet, knowing he is beaten, tries to goad Lowrey into killing him, which he almost does as revenge for Max's Murder, until Burnett prevents it. While on the ground Fouchet then pulls a out concealed weapon and aims at Burnett, but seeing the reflection on his partner's forehead, Lowery shoots Fouchet numerous times finally avenging Max's killing. After professing their mutual love for one another and relief in surviving the gun fight, Marcus handcuffs Julie and Mike's hands together and hobbles away hoping for some much needed "Quality Time" with his wife.
In the film's early stages of development, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer initially envisioned Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz in the roles.[1] When the movie was written for Carvey and Lovitz, the original title for Bad Boys was Bulletproof Hearts.
Both Martin Lawrence and Will Smith were starring in their own hit TV shows, Martin and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when filming this movie. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air even references the film in an episode. In season 6 episode 20 called 'I Stank Horse', Nicholas 'Nikky' Banks tells Will that his parents won't let him watch 'Bad Boys' to which Will replies "oh, whatcha gonna do?"
Director Michael Bay didn't like the script and often engaged Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in discussions about how the dialogue and scenes could improve. He often allowed them to improvise while the cameras were rolling. He secretly told Will to call Lawrence a bitch before the car scene. The whole "two bitches in the sea" was improvised, as was Martin's comment when Téa Leoni called him gay.
The scene in the convenience store where the clerk puts a gun to Burnett and Lowrey's heads and tells them to "Freeze, bitch!" is also improvised. They came up with "No, you freeze, bitch! Now back up, put the gun down and get me a pack of Tropical Fruit Bubbalicious". "And some Skittles."
According to Michael Bay in his DVD commentary, at the end of the film when Mike (Smith) and Marcus (Lawrence) are recuperating, Mike says "I love you, man." Bay claims that Smith refused to say the line, causing the director and actor to argue back and forth over the line. Bay wanted Smith to say the line as he felt it summed up the friendship between the cops. After their argument had lasted for half of the day's shoot and much of the crew was ready to pack up, a fed up Bay told Smith to do whatever he wanted, after which Smith changed his mind and agreed to say the line.
The film itself was commercially successful, as its total gross was estimated at $65.8 million in the United states and $75 million overseas. However, critical reception was generally negative with most of the criticisms focusing on the fact that despite the production of the film and the ability of the stars, the script did not diverge from the generic plot of a cop-buddy genre film, instead opting for repeated use of formulaic scenes.[2][3]
The current Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer shows that 42% of critics that they indexed gave the film positive reviews, with the "Top Critics" score remaining at 14%.
Roger Ebert in his video review of the film on At the Movies noted that despite the highly energetic approach of the two lead actors and the visual style of the film, their acting talents were mostly "new wine in old bottles". He illustrated that many of the elements featured in the film including both the plot and characters had been recycled from other movies, particularly those from the Lethal Weapon and Beverley Hills Cop series[3] -- recurrent stock-characters, police detective clichés and over-long action scenes.[3] In describing the archetypal cop-buddy genre action scene adhered to by the film, Ebert noted "Whenever a movie like this starts to drag, there's always one infallible solution; have a car-chase and then blow something up REAL good." [3]
Gene Siskel in his appraisal of the film said that he had lost interest in the film after its introduction due to the very formulaic approach[3], and repeated Roger Ebert's criticism that the talents of the lead actors were wasted; suggesting that the production company did not spend significant time producing a script which would be suitable for their talents.[3]
Reviews from moviegoers were generally positive and many of them felt that the movie injected new interest and reinvigorated the buddy cop genre. Some fans of the movie even compared Bad Boys to Lethal Weapon in the sense that both films had two male leads who are at odds with each other while trying to solve cases together. Between the two, Bad Boys is viewed to be a faster movie than Lethal Weapon (which relied on intrigue and suspense).[citation needed]
Because of the popularities of Smith, Lawrence and Bay, Bad Boys continues to enjoy heavy playtime on cable television networks as well as continued presence in video stores worldwide.[citation needed]
A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B was released on March 25, 1995 by Work Records. It peaked at #26 on the Billboard 200 and #13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
The album was well received by fans of the rap/R&B genres, but disappointed fans of Mark Mancina's movie score, as only one of up to fifteen tracks composed for the film by Mancina was featured on the album. Also, most of the industrial rock tracks, which featured primarily in the "Club Hell" scene, are also missing from the album. These include "Nothing" by Stabbing Westward, "Angels" by Dink, and "Sweet Little Lass" by DAG.
The original score by Mark Mancina[4] was released in September 2007 by La-La Land Records as a limited edition of 3000 copies.
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Bad Boys is a 1995 action comedy film, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The film also spawned a 2003 sequel, Bad Boys II.
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