Bad Boys (1995 film)

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***Bad Boys*** is a 1995 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Michael Bay in his feature directorial debut, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. The film stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as two Miami narcotics detectives, Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey. The film received mixed reviews from critics, was commercially successful and spawned two sequels, *Bad Boys II* (2003) and *Bad Boys for Life* (2020).

## Plot

Lifelong friends Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are Miami police detectives investigating $100 million of seized Mafia heroin, their biggest career bust which was stolen from a secure police vault. Internal Affairs suspects that it was an inside job and threatens to shut down the entire department unless they recover the drugs within 72 hours.

Mike 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 hired as escorts by Eddie Dominguez, a crooked former cop. The party is soon interrupted by Dominguez's French drug kingpin boss Fouchet and his henchmen Casper, Ferguson, and Noah. Dominguez and Max are killed, while Julie manages to escape. The madam who hired Julie and Max is disposed of by Noah, who then knocks out Mike as he investigates Max's death.

Frantically calling the police station, Julie insists on talking only to Mike, who is following up on a lead with the Madam. Knowing she never met Mike, captain Conrad Howard forces Marcus to impersonate Mike to talk to her. At her apartment, Marcus and Julie are attacked by some of Fouchet's henchmen, one of whom Marcus kills. When they rendezvous with Mike, Marcus and Mike have to impersonate each other, with Mike living at the Burnett residence while Marcus resides with Julie at Mike's apartment. The two struggle to keep it up in Julie's presence, and she quickly begins to suspect the truth.

Looking through mugshots, Julie identifies Noah as one of the henchmen. The trio go to Club Hell, one of Noah's known hangouts. After being spotted, Marcus knocks Casper unconscious during a bathroom fight. Julie tries to kill Fouchet but Marcus stops her. In the ensuing car chase, Mike kills Noah. The three manage to get away, but are caught on camera by a news helicopter and the report is later seen by Marcus's family, who were told that Marcus was temporarily reassigned to Cleveland.

Mike and Marcus meet their old informant Jojo and learn about the location of the chemist who is cutting the stolen drugs. The three return to Mike's apartment, where Marcus' wife Theresa confronts them and confirms Julie's suspicion they have been impersonating each other. Fouchet and his gang show up and kidnap Julie.

Mike and Marcus' department is shut down by Internal Affairs. Despite being reassigned, Howard delays the order, giving Mike and Marcus more time to solve the case. They access Dominguez's private police database profile and learn that the police secretary Francine is Dominguez's former girlfriend, who was being blackmailed by Fouchet and Dominguez after they took nude photos of her, threatening to post them at her kids' school.

Mike, Marcus, and two other detectives, Sanchez and Ruiz, head to the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport. After a fierce shootout, they kill the remainder of Fouchet's henchmen, including Casper and Ferguson, and rescue Julie. They chase a fleeing Fouchet and force his car into a concrete barrier. As Fouchet tries to flee, Mike shoots Fouchet in the leg and arrests him at gunpoint. After a tense conversation with Marcus, Fouchet surreptitiously draws a gun but is shot to death by Mike before he can kill Marcus, avenging Max's death. An exhausted Marcus leaves Julie with Mike and heads home, eager to be reunited with his wife.

## Cast

* Martin Lawrence as Detective Sergeant Marcus Miles Burnett
* Will Smith as Detective Sergeant Michael Eugene "Mike" Lowrey
* Téa Leoni as Julie Mott
* Tchéky Karyo as Fouchet
* Theresa Randle as Theresa Burnett
* Joe Pantoliano as Captain Conrad Howard
* Marg Helgenberger as Captain Alison Sinclair
* Nestor Serrano as Detective Sanchez
* Julio Oscar Mechoso as Detective Ruiz
* Saverio Guerra as Chet
* Anna Thompson as Francine
* Kevin Corrigan as Elliot
* Michael Imperioli as Joe "Jo-Jo"
* Vic Manni as Ferguson
* Frank John Hughes as Casper
* Ralph Gonzales as Kuni
* Marc Macaulay as Noah Trafficante
* Emmanuel Xuereb as Eddie Dominguez
* John Salley as Fletcher (credited as Hacker "Fletcher")
* Karen Alexander as Max Logan
* Shaun Toub as Store Clerk
* Kim Coates as White Carjacker
* Michael 'Bear' Taliferro as Black Carjacker
* Lisa Boyle as Girl Decoy
* Ed Amatrudo as Ether Van Boss