I Watch Films: Bad Boys II

 

Bad Boys II

Miami detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery are part of the Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT). Undercover at a Ku Klux Klan meeting things go wrong; their back up is late and the ecstasy they’re expecting hasn’t arrived yet. In the chaos of the fight Mike shoots Marcus in the buttocks. Deciding he is too old for this Marcus is going to transfer out of the team, breaking up their partnership, waiting for the right moment to tell Mike.

This is complicated by Marcus’s sister Syd visiting from New York. Mike and her have started dating, but haven’t yet told anyone. Syd is, of course, a DEA agent in Miami posing as a money launderer. (The film does not understand what money laundering is). She’s undercover as a contractor to Russian mafia, who are doing business with Johnny Tapia, a Cuban drug dealer. On her way from a money laundering meeting she is attacked by Haitian rivals to Tapia; a Haitian gang Mike and Marcus are watching. This leads to another spectacular car chase/fight, where everyone’s secrets are revealed.

Information from the Haitians reveals that Tapia owns a mortuary; he smuggles drugs into the country in coffins, then takes cash to Cuba hidden in the coffins with Cubans being repatriated to be buried there. Tapia has rat problems in his house (his mother’s house). Mike and Marcus, intercepting a call, go in undercover as pest control, though Marcus is scared of rats. They attempt to bug the house.

Eventually they get enough evidence to raid the house and mortuary. Although they manage to capture most of the money and drugs Tapia gets away to Cuba, kidnapping Syd. Mike and Marcus resolve to go and rescue her from Tapia’s new (heavily fortified) house that he’s been talking about all though the film. Volunteers from the DEA, TNT, FBI and the Coast Guard join them, with support from their Captain’s contacts in the CIA. There is inevitably a frantic and complicated fight/chase/fight scene.

Watch This: Wise-cracking, stunts, some good jokes
Don’t Watch This: The dilemmas in the film revolve around telling your partner important things, not about shooting people, destroying cars on highways or invading other countries