Just Another Day with Mike Lowrey

posted on july 22, 2003, tag: entertainment

The unfortunate thing about Bad Boys II is that it tried to accomplish too much. It tried to pull off two and a half hours, and it tried to do so with tons of action and mostly meaningless dialogue. The problem is, it didn't work. While I liked the movie on a whole, I felt as though at least an hour of it wasn't worth the time. Condense the thing and maybe we'll talk.

The good thing about Bad Boys was that it was Michael Bay's first movie. It was good, too. It had the right amount of action and lots of laughs from Lawrence and Smith. It felt almost as if the writers knew the two actors and knew how to make them interact with the best outcome. But in the sequel, that was not the case. The dialogue felt forced, the communication and interaction stale. But the actions scenes were great—if long and often a bit harsh. That, however, does not make a movie good.

This sequel did what most sequels do, by trying to outdo the original. The sad thing is, it would have been better if it were just another day in the life of these two guys minus half of the car chases and minus an hour of footage. The first movie was succinct. It started, it went, it ended. This movie started, stalled, picked up, stalled, stalled further, picked up, etcetera for two and a half hours. Very often you found yourself thinking the same thing Martin Lawrence's character was saying, specifically: "This is the fifth gun-fight in two days!" Yes. It is. And if you're thinking this is ridiculous, what are we thinking?

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