Bad Boys 2

Bad Boys Two Odeon Friday 10-Thursday 16 October What you have to remember about this sequel is that is was inevitably going to be made , since the first film earned (to employ the language of Will Smith’s character, the irrepressible Mike Lowrey) “a huge fucking pile of dough” for Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer, and all others involved. So after this long wait of eight years, what are we left with? A dazzling cinematic display, with some skilful camera direction by director Michael Bay, including a jaw-dropping car chase to rival anything from The Matrix Reloaded, as well as an original continuous circling sequence of Smith and Lawrence in a shootout with some Jamaican yardies, plus a pretty sketchy plot involving a crazed cuban drug lord, the Miami PD, the DEA, FBI, CIA (anybody beginning to notice a Bruckheimer theme?) and about $150 million dollars of Dutch Ecstasy. The two leads bicker incessantly, and while at times the wisecracks are witty, the constant “getchur black ass outta my face nigger” becomes tiresome. An improbable chase out to the Caribbean, total destruction of Miami city centre, and the littering of the streets with morgue corpses is a tad too much even for the Bad Boys and after two and a half hours the ugly morality and misogyny of this film becomes tedious.ARCHIVE: 0th Week MT2003