![]() ![]() Tea Leoni is Julie Mott, a witness to two of Fouchet's pointless murders. The villain, Fouchet, is played by dour French star Tcheky Karyo (of "La Femme Nikita"). Haven't we seen this all before? Four or five dozen times? And at least several times from "Bad Boys" producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer ("Top Gun"), the kings of the 1980s buddy-movie, muscle-car kitsch? Against Miami's pungent urban backdrops-luxury hotels, airports, seedy dives-cars crash, villains kill, gunfire blazes, hangars blow up and the buddies banter. "Bad Boys," which might be described as "Beverly Hills Cop" meets "Lethal Weapon" in Miami, takes place in that never-never land where buddy-cops yell during high-speed chases while their dyspeptic bosses blow fuses and bureaucrats harass everyone. But the movie around them is a high-gloss crock. That's what happens in the frenzied, chums-with-guns, Martin Lawrence- Will Smith cop-thriller "Bad Boys." As bickering Miami cops tracking a French crime genius who has stolen heroin from their police vault, Lawrence and Smith are sometimes a formidably funny pair, firing off one comic salvo after another. Some big, mass-audience movie fantasies get repeated and recycled so many times that their later versions take on a near-hallucinatory craziness. ![]()
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