Bad Boys

1995 119 min ★ 6.8 Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

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.

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Cast

Will Smith

Mike Lowrey

Martin Lawrence

Marcus Burnett

Téa Leoni

Julie Mott

Tchéky Karyo

Fouchet

Joe Pantoliano

Captain Howard

Theresa Randle

Theresa Burnett

Marg Helgenberger

Alison Sinclair

Nestor Serrano

Detective Sanchez

Julio Oscar Mechoso

Detective Ruiz

Saverio Guerra

Chet The Doorman

Details

Director

Michael Bay

Screenplay

Michael Barrie

Tagline

"Whatcha gonna do?"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$19,000,000

Revenue

$141,407,024

Production

Columbia Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Reviews

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Gimly

November 28, 2017

★ 5/10

Fans of a pre-_Terminator_ Bay are gonna love it, and I can see where it succeeds, but personally _Bad Boys_ makes me kinda uncomfortable. _Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._

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GenerationofSwine

January 11, 2023

★ 10/10

IDK, I really was never a big Bay fan, but I always sort of liked Will Smith, and Lawrence I only really knew from Def Comedy Jam so I was sort of 50/50 going in... ... but it was 90s Will Smith, when he was nothing but fun, so I went to go see it anyway. And the brilliant thing is that it stands alone as a decent action/comedy, so all said and done it was already a pretty good film that hea...

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Andre Gonzales

April 22, 2023

★ 10/10

Really funny, and action packed. One of my favorite movies of all time.

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Duplicitous_Tardigrade

June 14, 2024

★ 9/10

Action-packed!

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CinemaSerf

March 26, 2025

★ 6/10

Is this supposed to be an African American male version of “Cagney and Lacey”? I seem to recall that one of them was a trust-fund cop teamed up with the working class family one. Here, Will Smith is the suave and confident “Mike” who works with “Marcus” (Martin Lawrence) for the narcotics department. After an audacious raid on the police station relieves it’s evidence room of millions of dollars w...