Some movies are great. Some movies aspire for greatness, and fall short of the mark. And some movies are fluff, and nothing more.
Bad Boys II falls safely in the third category, but it's fluff of the good kind. There's no way that seeing this movie will, in any way, shape, or form, change your life. You will not leave the cinema having been presented with an alternative world-view. This final point is worth repeating, because it is particularly important in this current climate of theological epics that before viewing the film the audience knows exactly what sort of a journey they are getting themselves in for:-
You will not leave this film questioning your existing beliefs in our current, past, or future social and cultural structures.
Bad Boys II is little more than a mish-mash of car chases (and pretty darn exciting ones at that: Wachowski brothers should take note!) gun fights aplenty (at one point Lawrence quips: "I think we just broke the record for the number of gun fights in one week") and a climax which will do little but leave the acronym WTF? running around your head for the next three weeks.
It's tripe, it's fluff, it's silly, it's violent and it's downright offensive - but paint me purple and shout "Whoosah!" if it isn't enjoyable.
*** out of ***** - It's just a movie!
Bad Boys II falls safely in the third category, but it's fluff of the good kind. There's no way that seeing this movie will, in any way, shape, or form, change your life. You will not leave the cinema having been presented with an alternative world-view. This final point is worth repeating, because it is particularly important in this current climate of theological epics that before viewing the film the audience knows exactly what sort of a journey they are getting themselves in for:-
You will not leave this film questioning your existing beliefs in our current, past, or future social and cultural structures.
Bad Boys II is little more than a mish-mash of car chases (and pretty darn exciting ones at that: Wachowski brothers should take note!) gun fights aplenty (at one point Lawrence quips: "I think we just broke the record for the number of gun fights in one week") and a climax which will do little but leave the acronym WTF? running around your head for the next three weeks.
It's tripe, it's fluff, it's silly, it's violent and it's downright offensive - but paint me purple and shout "Whoosah!" if it isn't enjoyable.
*** out of ***** - It's just a movie!
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