Watched again now, Smith’s performance is weirdly subdued, as if all the emphasis is really on the established comic talent Lawrence, and Smith is his straight man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2025

Those wondering if Bad Boys has aged well should know that it’s as feculent as ever.

| Jul 8, 2024

Casting Martin Lawrence and Will Smith resulted in a comedy gold and their buddy-cop chemistry clicks the moment they appear on-screen, bickering and dissing each other.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 30, 2024

I don't understand how this wasn't critically well-received when it came out but it's very entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2023

This movie is still hilarious with timeless jokes. The chemistry with the two black leads is unmatched. This is a classic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 8, 2023

Through a mixture of charisma and testosterone Smith and Lawrence manage a handful of chuckles and a couple of decent action scenes. But their shtick eventually runs its course...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The technical problems are insignificant next to the dialogue issues, which occasionally distract from story inconsistencies.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 9, 2020

A surprisingly well-aged mid-90s action classic boosted by both its central two-hander and Bay's commitment to kinetic carnage.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 19, 2020

... the pairing of Martin Lawrence and Will Smith generates a winning comic chemistry.

| Apr 9, 2019

Haven't we seen this all before? Four or five dozen times?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2019

You may rest assured that whenever a glass object hoves into view, it will be shattered in slo-mo by the end of the scene.

| Mar 29, 2019

Entertainment of the gratingly commercial, teeth-rattling variety is provided in Bad Boys.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 29, 2019

With its loose-limbed, wisecracking rhythms and its energetic stars, Bad Boys manages to overcome its shopworn premise and turn the old cop-buddy movie formula in a fresh and funny direction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2019

These are two high-energy, likable performers, and yet long passages unwind in which they are terribly boring because they are working without much of a script.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2019

Perhaps in a misguided effort to capitalize on the stars' comedic talents, the producers diluted the hardball violence of Bad Boys with extraneous shtick and too much banal banter.

| Mar 29, 2019

The plot and characterisation are largely irrelevant - just sit back and feast on the adrenaline-pumping action and the live-wire banter of the two stars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2019

Smith and Lawrence have great comic energy and for at least half an hour are sublimely enjoyable -- until the movie's spirit of bloated gargantuanism takes over.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2019

At almost two hours, the film is at least 30 minutes too long.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 29, 2019

The unfailingly ingratiating Smith glides through the movie.

| Mar 29, 2019

Martín Lawrence and Will Smith do not seem gifted for action, nor for comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 28, 2019