The biggest problem with Bad Boys 2 is not that the humor has been systematized, that there's no originality or intelligence in the storyline, or that the film is poorly paced and way too Kevin Costner-like long...
The biggest problem of this film is Jerry Bruckheimer. If he really wants to agitate pro American values and con Cuban socialism, this is not the way to do it, even at this ultimate mainstream level. His production 'Black Hawk Down' succeeded where 'Pearl Harbor' failed. You understood why the US troops actually were the good guys when all was rounded up, where this constellation was an insult in PH. You could hope that Jerry had learned the lesson after that, but then he launches BBII. What the heck is wrong with him?
To point out: A violent Columbian drug lord cannot in any way set up a drug traffic operation out of present day Cuba let alone build his own mansion in the wide open land. If he tried, Fidel Castro would immediately have him rounded up and shot, he'd most likely blow his brains out himself to prove a point. Fidel Castro may be an extreme dictator, but the political reality is that he hates drug dealers and organized criminals to the core of his body, because his extreme ideal is based on humanism. One of the main reasons that Castro, Guevara and others in the 50's rebelled violently against Cuba's former dictator Batista, and one of the main reasons why millions of Cubans actually supported them to victory, was that Batista for years had made Cuba a haven for drug lords from Columbia and Cosa Nostra gambling & prostitution tycoons from USA and Italy, making Cuban life more miserable than anything they must encounter today. Claiming that the opposite is true, that Castro can be bought by the kind of people he hates more than anything, is not only a political contradiction in terms, it's a gigantic and dangerous lie. Dangerous because it tries to convince the mainstream audience that the Cuban problem lies somewhere it's not. If Master Jerry really wants to tell people about the drawbacks of Castro's policies, then he must first accept and ally with the truth. That won't prevent him from producing a blowout of an entertainment flick and make a [S-word] load of money, as BHD proved.
This is not healthy political agitation at the people's level, this is disgusting nationalist propaganda. The deep travesty about it all is that this 130M$ insult actually made ends meat. I feel I can hear the devil snicker...
Bad Boys 2 is short of a crime against humanity. A worse sequel than Highlander II.
The biggest problem of this film is Jerry Bruckheimer. If he really wants to agitate pro American values and con Cuban socialism, this is not the way to do it, even at this ultimate mainstream level. His production 'Black Hawk Down' succeeded where 'Pearl Harbor' failed. You understood why the US troops actually were the good guys when all was rounded up, where this constellation was an insult in PH. You could hope that Jerry had learned the lesson after that, but then he launches BBII. What the heck is wrong with him?
To point out: A violent Columbian drug lord cannot in any way set up a drug traffic operation out of present day Cuba let alone build his own mansion in the wide open land. If he tried, Fidel Castro would immediately have him rounded up and shot, he'd most likely blow his brains out himself to prove a point. Fidel Castro may be an extreme dictator, but the political reality is that he hates drug dealers and organized criminals to the core of his body, because his extreme ideal is based on humanism. One of the main reasons that Castro, Guevara and others in the 50's rebelled violently against Cuba's former dictator Batista, and one of the main reasons why millions of Cubans actually supported them to victory, was that Batista for years had made Cuba a haven for drug lords from Columbia and Cosa Nostra gambling & prostitution tycoons from USA and Italy, making Cuban life more miserable than anything they must encounter today. Claiming that the opposite is true, that Castro can be bought by the kind of people he hates more than anything, is not only a political contradiction in terms, it's a gigantic and dangerous lie. Dangerous because it tries to convince the mainstream audience that the Cuban problem lies somewhere it's not. If Master Jerry really wants to tell people about the drawbacks of Castro's policies, then he must first accept and ally with the truth. That won't prevent him from producing a blowout of an entertainment flick and make a [S-word] load of money, as BHD proved.
This is not healthy political agitation at the people's level, this is disgusting nationalist propaganda. The deep travesty about it all is that this 130M$ insult actually made ends meat. I feel I can hear the devil snicker...
Bad Boys 2 is short of a crime against humanity. A worse sequel than Highlander II.