1995 · action · crime · comedy
Bad Boys
Directed by Michael Bay1h 59m1995
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.
Our read: Bad Boys (1995) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · crime · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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