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Bad Boys is a 1995 action comedy 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.
Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are best friends and detectives in the narcotics division of the Miami-Dade Police Department. One night, $100 million of seized heroin is stolen 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, warns Miami PD that if they do not recover the drugs in five days, the narcotics division will be shut down.
One thief, a former cop named Eddie Domínguez, is found dead at a hotel suite, shot to death by his boss, French drug kingpin Fouchet. Fouchet also kills an escort, Maxine "Max" Logan, who was hired by Eddie. It is revealed that 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, who watched the crime from the upper balcony of the suite.
Although she hasn"t met Mike, because of Max"s relationship with him Julie will only trust and deal with Lowrey. However, he is away when she contacts the police about the murders, threatening to run if she doesn"t speak to Mike. Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano) forces Burnett to impersonate Lowery to get Julie to cooperate. In order to continue the deception, Burnett and Lowrey switch lives. Burnett tells his family he is going to Cleveland for a case, leaving Mike to stay with them. Burnett then moves into Lowrey"s apartment with Julie and her dogs. In Julie"s presence, Burnett poses as Lowery while Mike poses as Burnett.
The investigation proceeds with Lowrey and Burnett calling in on their old informants, including Jojo (Michael Imperioli), a former chemist who now works at a tire store. Later, while Julie identifies one of Max"s killers, Noah, while looking through mug shots. The two cops then head off to Club Hell, one of his known hangouts. Unbeknownst to them, Julie has followed, eager to dish out revenge on Max"s killers. Her presence alerts the criminals, resulting in Noah fleeing. After a brief ruckus and car chase, Noah is killed. The incident is caught on camera by a news helicopter. The subsequent report is later seen by Burnett"s family.
Lowrey and Burnett decide to visit Jojo again. After some persuasion from Lowrey, Jojo tells them the location of the chemist who is cutting the stolen drugs. After staking out his house, they follow him to where Fouchet is hiding the drugs. They return to Mike"s apartment with Julie, where they are confronted by Marcus" wife who blows their cover, causing Julie to try and run. Fouchet and his gang arrive at Lowery"s apartment and kidnap Julie. Because of this, Internal Affairs reassigns 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 Julie 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. A final shoot-out erupts between the group of cops and the drug dealers at an abandoned air field. Burnett is shot in the leg after saving Julie from Fouchet. Fouchet also shoots Lowery while escaping the building, which is now on fire, but he is rescued by Burnett and Julie who left to get Lowrey"s car.
The cops and Julie chase Fouchet"s Shelby Cobra AC 427 in Mike"s Porsche 911 Turbo. After Burnett bumps him off the road, Fouchet crashes but manages 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 out a concealed weapon and aims at Burnett, but seeing the reflection on his partner"s forehead, Lowery shoots Fouchet numerous times, killing him.
Later, 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.
[edit] Cast
Martin Lawrence as Det. Marcus Burnett
Will Smith as Det. Mike Lowrey
Téa Leoni as Julie Mott
Tchéky Karyo as Fouchet
Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard
Emmanuel Xuereb as Eddie Dominguez
Nestor Serrano as Detective Sanchez
Julio Oscar Mechoso as Detective Ruiz
Theresa Randle as Theresa Burnett
John Salley as Fletcher
Marg Helgenberger as Capt. Alison Sinclair
Michael Imperioli as Jojo
[edit] Production
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?" On Lawrence"s series, Martin, Martin says his friends where Tommy and Cole watches TV "Not one channel in English? What"s This "The Fresh Prince of Beirut?" on the Season 5 episode "Working Girls" which was aired in 1996.
[edit] Improvisation
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.
[edit] Reaction and commercial success
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[who?] 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.[who?] 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]
[edit] Soundtrack
Main article: Bad Boys (soundtrack)
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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Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies" man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station"s nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other. Written by James Hastie
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowrey is more of a loose cannon. They are partners on the Miami Police Department, and they are about to take on a highly dangerous case. 100 million dollars in heroin, from the biggest drug bust of their careers, is stolen from police headquarters. Now, they have 72 hours to reclaim the heroin before the Internal Affairs Division gets involved. This puts Mike and Marcus hot on the trail of a French drug kingpin named Fouchet. Mike asks Maxine Logan, a hooker he knows, to keep an eye open for high rollers. Later, she gets a call from a guy who"s high on drugs and wants to spend $2000. Maxine asks her best friend Julie Mott to tag along with her to the home of former cop Eddie Dominguez. Julie is not a hooker but the guy"s so out of it that they"ll be out of there with the money in just minutes. But at Dominguez"s house, Fouchet kills Maxine. Julie witnessed the murder, so she contacts the police. But Julie, who doesn"t know what Mike looks like, is willing to talk only to Mike. Mike is not around, so Marcus is forced to pretend to be Mike, and when Mike returns, he"s forced to pretend to be Marcus. Marcus is a family man who has a wife named Theresa and three kids named James, Megan, and Quincy, while Mike is not, so this is not a very close fit. Mike and Marcus"s pursuit of Fouchet kicks into overdrive when Fouchet"s henchmen kidnap Julie right out from under their noses. Written by Todd Baldridge
Detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Brunette have 72 hours to find $100 million worth of heroin before Internal Affairs shuts them down. Lowery becomes more involved after a friend is murdered by the drug dealers. Matters become complicated when Lowery and Brunette have to switch places to convince a witness to the murder to cooperate. Written by Nate Dogg