2003 · action · crime · comedy
Bad Boys II
Directed by Michael Bay2h 26m2003
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.
Our read: Bad Boys II (2003) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · crime · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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