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Bad Boys

Bad Boys

1995
R
119 min
Action Comedy Crime

Plot Summary

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.

6.8
IMDb Rating
44%
Rotten Tomatoes
41
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

6.8
IMDb Rating
44%
Rotten Tomatoes
41
Metacritic

Technical Details

119 min
Runtime
07 Apr 1995
Release Date
R
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1995
Year
Genres
Action Comedy Crime

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User Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6.0/10
Recent

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 to find out just who pinched it. How hard can it b...

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

10.0/10
Recent

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 loves. But then it manages to peck, and mock, and s...

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Gimly

Gimly

5.0/10
Recent

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._

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