Bad Boys II 2003

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie is 2 1/2 hours of hard-working intensity. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Just when you thought summer movies couldn't get any louder, more violent, more intentionally brainless -- and, worst of all, any longer -- here comes Bad Boys II, its chest all pumped up with the pure pointlessness of it all. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The latest collaboration between director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, two filmmakers who bring out the worst in each other, is just as bloated and fatuous as their previous efforts. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a nasty, mean-spirited movie. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Bad Boys II gives new meaning to that overused phrase 'over the top.' Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: A mind-boggling, nerve-numbing, adrenaline-pumping combination of shock-and-awe brilliance and idiocy. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: 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 used profanity and the occasional 'N' word for comic effect. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Despite some awesomely choreographed stunts and the two stars' pedal-to -the-metal appeal, the movie seems endless. Read more

Ted Fry, Seattle Times: Bad Boys II delivers, but as nearly every summertime spectacle is proving this year, more seems more and more like less. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: [An] assaultive, bombastic, and occasionally funny spectacle. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Basically the longest, the most expensive, most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of Miami Vice ever Read more

Collin Levey, Wall Street Journal: 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 few brain cells into a premature grave. Read more

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Absolutely shameless in its propensity for violence and nonstop action -- and, most of the time, a heck of a lot of fun to watch. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Bad Boys II is the rare case in which escapism involves leaving the theater. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: Producer Bruckheimer and director Bay have sunk to a new low for irresponsible, inhuman violence, dragging Will Smith and Martin Lawrence along for a ghastly, deafening display of bloodshed. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This sequel is as sour and jaded as they come. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: BBII ripples and rumbles with remarkable stunts. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: You're definitely getting more bang for your buck; too bad most of the bangs look alike. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: This summer's most dynamic action movie. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Smith and Lawrence give good razz, but Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Bad Boys II is enough to make a young person feel old, and an old person stop going to the movies. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The violence is repugnant, yet thrilling. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Somewhere deep beneath the layers of broken glass, twisted chrome, mutilated flesh and burnt gunpowder clogging Bad Boys II, there are faint signs of a cunning little crime comedy straining to breathe free. Read more

Bruce Diones, New Yorker: The producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the director Michael Bay's buddy-cop destructorama has all the editing beats of a sex film. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Bad Boys II, which reunites Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as Miami narcotics agents, resembles a full-length promo for itself. Read more

Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: The perverse feat of Bad Boys II is that it's formulaic enough to serve as a format-compatible sequel to half the cop buddy capers ever made. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: It's bigger. It's louder. And, like the title says, it's bad. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Bad Boys II isn't just bad -- it's a catastrophic violation of every aspect of cinema that I as a film critic hold dear. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Everybody involved in this project needs to do some community service. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The cinematic equivalent of toxic waste. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: Necrophilia, explosions, destroyed motor vehicles, gratuitous T&A and Martin Lawrence and Will Smith doing their lame Abbott-and -Costello act. What's not to hate? Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Very funny at times, maudlin at others and excruciatingly violent throughout, Bad Boys II -- director Michael Bay's latest festival of exploding cars and shaking cameras -- is, at 147 long minutes, just too much of a mediocre thing. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Jerry Bruckheimer has delivered a destruction extravaganza that is the peak, the thundering apex, the exploding propane refinery of overblown mayhem. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: In some eyes, this is a movie; in others, it's a weapon of mass destruction. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Hulk plays like Three Sisters in comparison; T-3 is a talky thinkfest and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle a model of restraint. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Way over the top, the film is morally off-kilter, designed for laddish lunkheads with a thirst for the lowest common denominator. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: Appallingly mean-spirited with ha-ha bullet wounds and dismemberments. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: A simple cop buddy movie extended to unconscionable length in order to accommodate redundant action scenes, endless banter between stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith and several potential endings, this production suffers from serious overkill. Read more

Jon Caramanica, Village Voice: Bad Boys 2 plays like a flashy highlight reel from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Just like Bad Boys, only louder, longer and the stars get paid more. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Might be considered three action sequences and four comedy routines in search of a story. Read more