Rating of
2.5/4
Pretty good
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/02/08
Miami Police detectives "Marcus" (Martin Lawrence) and "Mike" (Will Smith) have a problem. The drugs they obtained in the biggest bust of their careers have been stolen. To complicate things, the Kingpin of the gangsters who stole the narcotics (Tchéky Karyo) has killed a former cop (Emmanuel Xuereb) who stole some of the narcotics for himself and a call girl (Karen Alexander), who once dated.
The only witness (Tea Leone) will testify only "Mike", but he is not in the office, and "Marcus" has to pretend he is "Mike" to bring the witness in to identify the killer.
The thing that carries this movie is easily Lawrence and Smith. Because director Michael Bay thought that the script was pretty weak, he had the cast improvise numerous scenes and lines. This actually helped the chemistry of the two in my opinion. The rest of the cast is not as memorable, and basically are there to advance the story. Leone was OK as well, but I just didn't feel that she had any chemistry with Lawrence and Smith when the three were together. In fact, I don't even thing she was able to keep up with the two, especially in the imrovised scenes.
There are some good explosions and some pretty good action in this movie as well. They really spent a lot of the budget on explosions in this film.
In a cop movie, you not only have to have explosions and chase scenes. One of the most unique is "Mike" trying to run after the car the villains are in. There is also some gunplay in this movie.
As for the music, it's mainly modern rap and R&B and has at least one well known song from a long-running reality television series that is still on the air, and lends its title to the title of the movie. I probably recognized two or three movies through the entire movie since I am not really into those genres of music.
I would have to say that this one should be just outside your top 5 "Must See" movies.
