I enjoyed “Lethal Weapon”, “Tango & Cash” and “Rush Hour” so I like quite a few buddy cop films but “Bad Boys” fails because it doesn’t understand what makes a good buddy cop movie is the chemistry between the two cops.

Directed by the always over-the-top Michael Bay (“Transformers”, “The Rock”), “Bad Boys” has Miami police officers Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence “Blue Streak”) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith “Men In Black”, “Independence Day”) out on the hunt for millions and millions of dollars’ worth of stolen drugs while also protecting a murder witness (Téa Leoni “Deep Impact”). There are car chases, shootouts and fistfights but no heart.

Martin Lawrence is just not funny and he makes every scene with him in almost unbearable. I think that Will Smith has been somewhat entertaining in films such as “Men In Black” but here he has no chemistry with his co-star. The interaction between Smith and Lawrence is not remotely entertaining. The only time that either one is fun to watch is when they shut their mouths and are blasting away at bad guys. Téa Leoni is mildly entertaining and amusing as the attractive murder witness that Lawrence and Smith must defend. The other characters are pretty dull and the villains won’t leave much of an impact.

“Bad Boys” has a fairly exciting finale with seemingly endless explosions but the rest of the film is shockingly dull. This is meant to be a thrilling and funny action comedy but you’re sat there and you’re not laughing and you don’t care about most of what’s going on. If you watch “Lethal Weapon” or one of the other good buddy cop films I mentioned earlier and then you watch “Bad Boys”, I think you’ll agree that there is a huge difference in the quality of the pictures.