Bad boys - 1995

Not a great film, but not a bad one either, it's like a fun-action movie with some nonsense, a few funny scenes, a lot of shooting, a lot of shouting (mostly from the two loud protagonists) and an almost shirtless Will Smith running... I like to see him running :-p
The story is simple: a gang of criminals steals all the drugs in the police custody to cut it and sell it again for lots of money. Policemen Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) married with three kids, and Mike Lowry (Will Smith) rich guy with lots of girls, must find it back. They have no clue and Mike asks for Max's help and she tries to help him because she likes him but by doing so she gets killed. Her friend Julie Mott (Tea Leoni) sees everything but manages to escape. Knowing that a policeman was part of the gang (killed too) she only trusts Mike because she knows that Max trusted him deeply. She calls the police to talk to him but Mike is not there. Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano) doesn't want to lose the only lead they have so he forces Marcus to go to her pretending to be Mike. He takes her into protected custody to Mike's apartment, and from now on they must pretend to be the other one. Marcus tells his wife he's going to Cleveland while he stays with Julie, and Mike stays at his home with his family. We have all the possible funny scenes, Marcus becoming jealous and Julie guessing the truth and playing with him. We're saved the usual love story between the witness and her protector/savior, maybe because it had nothing to do with the story or maybe because she's white, I'm not sure if people still care about this sort of things, coming to think about it they did when I was a kid and this film is twenty years old after all, so who knows. I have no doubt that with the scenario Julie-dead Max-under-protection a third of the movie would have been about the love story. Anyway, I'm glad there isn't one, it's always so boring and useless.
There is lots of action, and of course the usual nonsense when the bad guys surprise Marcus at the bathroom but instead of shooting him they go at him with a knife and a bag to suffocate him, thus allowing him to win and come out unharmed. A load of nonsense, of course, with all that loud music, people who had no trouble killing before should have shot him. It's also absurd that in that club full of people the bad guys immediately spot both Marcus and Julie (separately) as if they were the only people there. Another movie where our heroes win because they're lucky, more than good.
Also nonsense that Marcus keeps handcuffing Julie to the wheel of the car leaving her alone, as if that was protection enough! In case of danger she wouldn't have been able to escape.
It's also absurd that the bad guys didn't go straight to Marcus' home since he took Julie away driving his family car.
Good points of this movie were: Will Smith, which is always a good thing, and as a nice plus we also have Will Smith running :-) ; Tea Leoni so very pretty; Martin Lawrence funny although too loud; Pantoliano and Karyo perfectly in character, and no 'but'.
Conclusion: it's okay to watch it once, but not a film I'm eager to rewatch.