Bad Boys

Director: Michael Bay

1995 / 119min / DCP

Turning Miami into his playground in his debut feature, Bay was already very much the Michael Bay you know and love (or hate), a maximalist master of chaos with a taste for over-the-top shootouts, warp speed car chases, and multiplex-rocking explosions. Teaming for the first of three outings to date, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith—who also recorded “Welcome to Miami” for the film’s soundtrack—have chemistry to burn as two thrill-junkie Miami narcotics detectives tasked with finding $100M of Mafia heroin stolen from a police vault, who just might blow up the entire city to get it.