Bad Boys II is a 2003 action/comedy film directed by
Michael Bay, produced by
Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring
Martin Lawrence and
Will Smith. It is a
sequel to the 1995 film
Bad Boys. The film is about two police detectives investigating the flow of
ecstasy into
Miami. Despite mainly negative reviews from professional critics, the film performed well at the box office, grossing $273,339,556 worldwide.
Plot
Eight years after the events of the first film, Detective Marcus Barnett (
Martin Lawrence) and Detective Mike Lowrey (
Will Smith) are investigating the flow of
ecstasy into
Miami. Their surveillance of boats coming in from Cuba leads them to a KKK meeting/drug drop in a swamp, Mike accidentally shoots Marcus in the buttocks which leads Marcus to further question if he still wants to partner with Mike.
Meanwhile, a
neurotic Cuban kingpin named Johnny Tapia (
Jordi MollĂ ), who supplies Miami's drug traffic, tells his men to change the boat's schedules once again. Two members of the
Russian Mob, Alexei and Josef, receive drugs from Tapia to run their nightclub businesses, but end up giving nearly half of their profits to Tapia. Alexei and Josef go to negotiate with Tapia to recoup some of their profits, but this ends in Josef's murder by Tapia's men and Alexei's forced surrender of his Russian nightclubs after his wife and son are threatened by Tapia.
Meanwhile, the relationship between Mike and Marcus' sister, Syd, who also happens to be undercover with the
DEA as a money...
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