Bad Boys (1995) movie poster

Bad Boys (1995)

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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 44%
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Runtime
1h 59m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.8/10 (6,842 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
46%
Metacritic
41

Cast

Will Smith as Mike Lowrey · 76% avg
Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett · 71% avg
Téa Leoni as Julie Mott · 69% avg
Tchéky Karyo as Fouchet · 74% avg
Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard · 75% avg
Theresa Randle as Theresa Burnett · 78% avg
Marg Helgenberger as Alison Sinclair · 72% avg
Nestor Serrano as Detective Sanchez · 72% avg

Is Bad Boys good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 44%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#328 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#30 / 107 · 1995
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 15 · Michael Bay

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Bad Boys is a 1995 American action comedy directed by Michael Bay in his feature debut, the film that launched both his blockbuster career and the partnership of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Smith plays Detective Mike Lowrey, a smooth, wealthy bachelor, and Lawrence plays Detective Marcus Burnett, a henpecked family man, both members of the Miami Police Department's narcotics division who must recover $100 million worth of heroin stolen from the police evidence vault. When a key witness needs protection, Mike and Marcus must swap identities — a mixup that forces the lifestyle-obsessed Mike to pretend to be the domesticated Marcus and vice versa.

Michael Bay's directorial style — saturated sunset cinematography, low-angle hero shots, rapid editing, and explosive action — was already fully formed in his debut. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's chemistry, built on rapid-fire improvisational bickering that felt genuinely spontaneous, was the film's primary asset. Bad Boys earned $141 million worldwide on a $19 million budget and launched a franchise spanning three decades.

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