Bad Boys 2 (2003)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2003
	Director: Michael Bay (Armageddon, Transformers 1-5)
	Actors: Will Smith (Independence Day, After Earth, Bright), Martin Lawrence (Blue Streak), Gabrielle Union, Jordi Moll (Riddick), Peter Stormare (Minority Report)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 13.01.2020, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Cop partners Marcus (Lawrence) and Mike (Smith) are back, this time investigating a flow of Ecstasy drugs in Miami.
Review: It took Michael Bay eight years to deliver this sequel to the hit Bad Boys. Surprising, one would think it would have come much sooner. But in the meantime the director could perfect his skills, his style and his ability to handle large budgets with The Rock, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, so that he could give to the world an awesome sequel, and maybe his best movie. I am surprised I don't find it even mentioned in the comments to the Excellent YouTube video Making the Perfect Sequel. I have a confession to make: I love this movie. It fixes every problem there was with the first one and gives the audience so much more. The humor is the same but more: they probably say 200 times "shit" in the movie, which at least makes me laugh. The movie starts with a butt joke and drags it until the end. Nobody close to us dies in the movie, so we don't have the drama issue of the first. The main characters are threatened a lot, but you know they will survive anything. And I burst into laughter when Martin Lawrence makes his rat jokes. Michael Bay hits us with some insane scenes, like the camera rotation through two adjacent room between the cops and the bad guys, or the crazy car chase that happens at an unexpected moment, reminding me of the one in Matrix Reloaded. And who cares how many innocent people die in their cars... We are also rewarded with the most slow motion, sunset, low angles and topless Will Smith that Michael Bay can do. The soundtrack is fun. The side-story with Marcus' sister spices things up a bit. The bad guys really are evil so we just enjoy when they are all cut to pieces. Edgard Wright's Hot Fuzz glorifies Bad Boys 2, and is the reason why re-discovered it and love it. As they say in Hot Fuzz, it is awesome when you think the movie is over while in fact you still ave a half hour to go and a full Cuban adventure including Action that tops what you have seen until now. I think I could watch it again after a week (this time on a big screen) and enjoy it as much.
Rating: 8 /10