Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick. Read full review
However masterful, the first-rate stunt work, effects, action cinematography and cutting (by no less than three editors) lose impact through sheer repetition. Read full review
Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed. Read full review
Beyond turbocharged. It whooshes along at warp speed. And still, despite some awesomely choreographed stunts and the two stars' pedal-to-the-metal appeal, the movie seems endless. Read full review
The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it. Read full review
Just too much of a mediocre thing. It didn't have to be that way. Read full review
Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it. Read full review
If you think you're tough enough, go ahead and sit through the endurance test that is Bad Boys 2, a brutal, 2 1/2-hour display of production overkill. Read full review
Appallingly mean-spirited. Read full review
Bad Boys II has everything. Everything loud, dumb, violent, sexist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay can think of puking up onscreen. Read full review