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Films like Bad Boys.

Bad Boys (1995) reads as Warm, breathless, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) poster
1. Lethal Weapon 41998

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Paper (1994) poster
2. The Paper1994

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bon Cop Bad Cop (2006) poster
3. Bon Cop Bad Cop2006

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Con Air (1997) poster
4. Con Air1997

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lethal Weapon (1987) poster
5. Lethal Weapon1987

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Seoul Raiders (2005) poster
6. Seoul Raiders2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) poster
7. Lethal Weapon 21989

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011) poster
8. Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe2011

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Terrorist (1994) poster
9. The Terrorist1994

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Midnight Run (1988) poster
10. Midnight Run1988

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Taxi No. 9211 (2006) poster
11. Taxi No. 92112006

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mr. Nice Guy (1997) poster
12. Mr. Nice Guy1997

Keeps the heightened unreality; trades toward a warm emotional register.

These are Bad Boys’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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