Bad Boys
(1995)
Overview
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they 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.
Director
Michael Bay
Writers
Jim Mulholland, George Gallo, Michael Barrie, Doug Richardson
Top Billed
Will Smith
Keywords
Top Billed Cast
Crew
Reviews
Gimly
⭐ 5/10November 28, 2017
Fans of a pre-_Terminator_ Bay are gonna love it, and I can see where it succeeds, but personally _Bad Boys_ makes me kinda uncomfortable.
_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._
GenerationofSwine
⭐ 10/10January 11, 2023
IDK, I really was never a big Bay fan, but I always sort of liked Will Smith, and Lawrence I only really knew from Def Comedy Jam so I was sort of 50/50 going in...
... but it was 90s Will Smith, when he was nothing but fun, so I went to go see it anyway.
And the brilliant thing is that it stands alone as a decent action/comedy, so all said and done it was already a pretty good film that hearkened back to the 80s buddy cop movies everyone l…
read the rest.
Andre Gonzales
⭐ 10/10April 22, 2023
Really funny, and action packed. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Duplicitous_Tardigrade
⭐ 9/10June 14, 2024
Action-packed!
CinemaSerf
⭐ 6/10March 26, 2025
Is this supposed to be an African American male version of “Cagney and Lacey”? I seem to recall that one of them was a trust-fund cop teamed up with the working class family one. Here, Will Smith is the suave and confident “Mike” who works with “Marcus” (Martin Lawrence) for the narcotics department. After an audacious raid on the police station relieves it’s evidence room of millions of dollars worth of heroin, it falls to this intrepid pair to … read the rest.
Recommended Movies
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$19,000,000
Revenue
$141,407,024