 bad boys is a 1995 american action comedy film produced by don simpson and jerry bruckheimer, producers of top gun and beverly hills cop, and directed by michael bay in his directorial debut. it starred martin lawrence and will smith. the film was followed by a sequel, bad boys ii. ==plot== marcus burnett (martin lawrence) and mike lowrey (will smith) are best friends and detectives in the narcotics division of the miami police department. one night, $100 million of seized heroin is stolen from a secure police vault. this is a major blow to burnett and lowrey because it was the biggest drug bust of their careers. internal affairs thinks that it was an inside job and warns the rest of the department that if they do not recover the drugs in five days, the narcotics division will be shut down. lowrey asks one of his informants and ex-girlfriend maxine "max" logan to look for people who are newly rich and therefore suspects. she gets herself and her best friend julie mott (tÃ©a leoni) hired as escorts by eddie domÃ­nguez, a former crooked cop and part of the coup. his boss, french drug kingpin fouchet (tchÃ©ky karyo) and his henchmen casper, ferguson and noah trafficante do not want the coup to be endangered by outsiders. therefore, fouchet shoots max and ferguson kills dominguez. after witnessing the murder, julie manages to escape over the roof. although she has not met mike, because of max's relationship with him, julie will only trust and deal with lowrey. however, he is away when she contacts the police about the murders, threatening to run if she does not speak to mike. captain conrad howard (joe pantoliano) forces burnett to impersonate lowrey to get julie to cooperate. marcus manages to convince julie that he is mike lowrey and together they escape from julie's apartment after a shootout during which marcus manages to kill raji, one of fouchet's cronies. in order to continue the deception, burnett and lowrey switch lives. burnett tells his family he is going to cleveland for a case, leaving mike to stay with them. burnett then moves into lowrey'
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