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2003
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Positive Reviews
28
Negative reviews
42
Average Rating
2.3
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1.5
And it doesnt help that Bay had reached the point in his career where he doesnt know when to let off the accelerator.
Keith & the Movies
2.0
As the stars ease too confidently into their familiar chemistryin this gas guzzler of a film, they get incredible mileage out of Martin getting shot i ..
Av Club
1.5
The redux would be merely shameless, were it not so unsettling: If Bays two and a half hour assault on the senses isnt enough cause to reach for the P ..
Av Club
2.0
Its just that you leave the theatre thinking less of yourself and humanity as a whole, as though youve been to a catered affair that served nothing bu ..
Austin Chronicle
4.5
Imamuras erotic comic fusion may yield confused audience reactions, however.
Austin Chronicle
0.5
Its hard to imagine how Ben Affleck, told to abduct an autistic kid (Justin Bartha) but unprepared for how darned cute the mentally handicapped are, c ..
Telegraph
2.0
An empty headed bubble of testosterone that explodes in the viewers face, potentially scarring them for the duration of the film.
Cinema Blend
3.0
Fun times.Dude, why dont you just fuckin fire them and save yourself all the headaches
JoBlo
1.5
In some eyes, this is a movie; in others, its a weapon of mass destruction.
The Globe And Mail
2.5
But is it some kind of intellectual essay or just another action movie
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.0
This putrid action flick crawls along for two and a half hours before expiring in a septic field of bad one liners, halfhearted catchphrases, oblitera ..
Chicago Reader
1.9
Its big, loud, about half an hour to an hour overlong, and devoid of the things that make big, loud action flicks entertaining.
Mark Reviews Movies
1.0
Suffice it to say Bay outdoes himselfif thats your idea of a good time.
News Review
2.0
By the end, youre past caring who kills whom and just want to escape from this smug, sadistic nonsense.
Radio Times
2.0
Sure, its enjoyable in a nonsensical summer movie sort of way, but honestly!
Shadows On The Wall
2.0
Deafening Gunfire And Dismembered Corpses However, though its never exactly boring, the film is far too long and eventually the level of gunfire becom ..
View London
2.5
Clever ideas and hilarious moments drown in a flood of violence and profanity.
Cs Monitor
3.5
Crass, derivative and profligate, the film is also tremendously funny and exciting, at least until it starts to take itself seriously.
Film Journal
4.0
This drew a more rousing cheer from the audience than anything in the movie.
The Guardian
3.5
Its the nastiest, most mean spirited, cynical Hollywood crap, but its also pretty funny in parts.
Smh
1.0
I suppose a case can and probably will be made that the movie is merely being a pitch black comedy.
Mountain X
1.9
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l ..
Q Network
3.2
The smartest thing about the movie is that it allows the two to act as if theyve truly had it with each others foibles.
Ew
1.0
But Abbott and Costello comedies were straightforward affairs, and in a movie of this consistently inhuman tone and scale, all the stars can do is eng ..
Salon
2.0
However, a gap of eight years an age in cinematic terms means that the hardly indelible characters have fallen off the movie going radar and need to m ..
Empire
2.0
The old fashioned real deal movie star charm of Will Smith can occasionally be glimpsed somewhere inside this overlong cacophony of car chases, shoot ..
Common Sense Media
2.5
With another director, one willing to admit that the goal wasnt to make a grand opera out of grand nonsense but to craft a brisk, unambitious entertai ..
Sf Gate
3.0
Brash, crass, bloody and loud, its shameful just how enjoyable Bad Boys II is an unapologetic, unreconstructed actioner thats as entertaining as it is ..
Bbc
0.5
The producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the director Michael Bays buddy cop destructorama has all the editing beats of a sex film.
New Yorker
0.0
Bad Boys II isnt so much reprehensible for the way it lazily allows its main characters to fall back on age old racial jokes (most sound like recyclab ..
Slant Magazine
3.5
The movie really loses its mind in its concluding commando junket.
Washington Post
3.8
Further encouragement came in the form of recent Bollywood film festivals on the mainstream premium cable networks Turner Classic Movies and the Sunda ..
Mr Brown Movies
1.3
But then, as the minutesano, make that hoursatick by, the movie digs itself a grave deep enough to bury every last one of the victims of the Titanic.M ..
The Movie Boy
2.8
The fanboys are bound to enjoy it, though, with its action, action, action, bits of gruesomeness and sometime bawdy humor.
Reeling Reviews
0.6
The original Bad Boys was such a film an excursion into pyrotechnic buddy movie mediocrity.
ReelViews
3.5
But the film could have been much leaner than its 147 minutes, and the ostentatious finale, complete with land mines and iguanas, feels tacked on, as ..
Seattle Pi
3.5
Youre definitely getting more bang for your buck; too bad most of the bangs look alike.
Cnn
3.1
Especially in an R rated action flick, one expects some blood and guts, but the cadaver thing is milked way beyond the boundries of poor taste to the ..
Spliced Wire
2.5
There are many sequences in the movie that feel as though they couldve either been seriously edited down or eliminated altogether, and as a result, Ba ..
Reel Film
2.0
Hulk plays like Three Sisters in comparison; T 3 is a talky thinkfest and Charlies Angels: Full Throttle a model of restraint.
The Star
0.0
Its too early to be proclaiming any movie as the best movie of 2003.
Deseret News
2.5
Overall, the relentless bombardment is more painful than exhilarating, but theres something arrestingly weird about the presumption that that this is ..
Urban Cine File
1.3
Such hijinks might be wickedly nasty if they were funny, but since theyre not theyre just plain nasty.
Movies Tv Guide
2.5
It doesnt really matter, however; this isnt a police procedural with meticulous sleuths combating criminal masterminds.
2.0
Its like an overtickled funny bone that becomes numb because you cant think of something more clever to do.
Varia Gate
1.3
Basically the longest, the most expensive, most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of Miami Vice ever
New York Post
1.9
Kansas women are poised to decide the winner when Democrats hold their first primary for governor in two decades Tuesday, and the states only living f ..
Kansas City
3.5
At a potentially posterior numbing 143mins, Bad Boys II shows Bay still has issues with length.
Stuff
2.5
Routinely blatantly nonsensical, the action is so plentiful, youll feel like youve been grabbed by the back of the neck and dragged through the pictur ..
Ross Anthony
1.5
You cant fault it for pure action, I spose, but it left me feeling cold.
The Sun
1.9
Martin Lawrence generates a few genuine laughs, but bombastic director Michael Bay oughta have his artistic license revoked.
Big Picture Big Sound
2.5
Fans of the first film should enjoy this sequel with equal enthusiasm.
ComingSoon
1.5
But it doesnt elevate its characters, horrible people all; it exposes them.
The Ringer
3.8
A flick like Bad Boys II isnt original or meaningful and theres less character development than in an episode of COPS, but its balls to the wall actio ..
Montreal Film Journal
1.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.2
That all wears thin without a solid story or engaging characters.
Chron
4.5
Perhaps its the chemistry between its two leads, or perhaps its the way director Michael Bay pounds action sequence after action sequence. One things ..
Bowling Green Daily News
4.0
For all the scripts jokes about anger management, what counts isnt the human factor but spectacle, relentless action and the head rush that comes when ..
La Times
1.5
Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it. Along the way, as well, it will likely batter a f ..
Wsj
2.0
Most of the story is just an excuse to string action sequences together with unfunny buddy angst.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.5
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Freep
3.1
The result is a movie that is entertaining and exciting and doesnt let up for a second but is also sometimes jaw droppingly awful.
Articles Chicago Tribune
1.9
We want you to be happy!.What if I do a mailing and get returned mail
Movie Eye
3.8
Its not always tasteful and its nowhere near as fun as the original, but its a slick thrill ride that thankfully has a surprisingly raw, pounding edge ..
Mid West Film Journal
2.0
Their movie looks spectacular.But that high gloss hard sell comes off so empty it only starts to underline just how routine and numbing the movie actu ..
Toledo Blade
3.5
Bad Boys II review by Cynthia Fuchs, 18 July 2003 Manifest energy Larger, louder, longer.In Bad Boys II, Miami detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and ..
Nitrate Online
3.0
But the best friends have to overcome their differences when Syds cover is blown and its up to them to rescue her and take down drugs kingpin Tapia.Th ..
Sky
1.0
What should have been a breezy, fun blow em up action turns into a long, gory exercise posing as a cop epic in the same attempted mindset as Heat or S ..
Films Nobs
1.7
Not for a single moment is the film suspenseful, but it still maintains a stoicism in its action scenes that keeps it from feeling fun.
Movie Martyr
2.0
Bad Boys II just goes on and on, with more dazzling camera work, more funny murders and executions by the bad guys and the good guys and judiciously u ..
Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.5
Bad Boys II reaches the limit, and then pushes itself past it, to a limitless place of unremitting excitement.
Juicy Cerebellum
3.0
Heres a question: When does a good thing become too much of a good thing The answer: Two hours into Bad Boys II.
Abc News Go
1.9
But Bad Boys II shortcuts the comedy by going straight for the punch lines and then repeating them.
Articles Baltimore Sun
3.8
Yet beyond the extreme close ups, past the acute camera angles and above the exploding gas tanks, what sets BBII apart is its comedy.
Articles Sun Sentinel
3.1
Sexy starlets stroll the beach wearing skin tight bikinis.It must be time for another summer sequel.Although the Angels and Arnie may be absent, there ..
Paloalto Online
2.5
Bad Boys II delivers, but as nearly every summertime spectacle is proving this year, more seems more and more like less.
Seattle Times
3.5
What categorically doesnt work in Bad Boys II is its needlessly mean spirited sense of humour; the routine homophobic jokes felt dated in 2003 let alo ..
Flickering Myth
4.0
Bad Boys II is definitely the film to see if you want to see action, gore, comedy, and romance all in one film.Bad Boys II is the best summer action f ..
Black Filim
2.0
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Tele Text
2.5
Its only when Bay turns serious in the final 20 minutes that the movie founders, and then sinks, under the weight of his Pearl Harbor type pretentious ..
Spokesman-Review (Washingt ..
0.5
It easily earns honors as Summer 2003s most egregious and gratuitous film.
Honolulu Advertiser
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