Bad Boys
Taste attributes: actioncomedycrimethrillerdetectivefasttried & testedunsavouryimaginarysimplelinearemotionally undemandingfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphsunlikely connections
"Whatcha gonna do?"
Boxlist takeA breakneck, unsavoury crime comedy: familiar and heightened. Best if you like pace over patience.
Pace: very fast · Originality: tried and tested · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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What lines up
No single trait stands out; it is a broad fit.
What might not click
- Pace: Fast, where this profile leans slow
- Emotional punch: Undemanding, where this profile leans emotive / stirring
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Synopsis
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
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Details
- Genre
- Action
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.
