Michael Bay – Ranking His Films From Worst To Best
3. Bad Boys
Bad Boys was Michael Bays feature debut; a modestly budgeted thriller that sought to turn Will Smith who was trying to break away from his Fresh Prince title into a movie star. The odds were stacked against it; Bay hated the script and encouraged his actors to improvise their way around it, and the low-budget forced him to cut corners wherever he could. For the climatic plane explosion, he had to hand over a quarter of his fee to pay for it. He compensated for the lack of money by making Bad Boys look intensely cinematic, complete with his trademark swirling cameras, sunsets, hot woman and lots of gratuitous slow motion. The chemistry between Smith and Martin Lawrence is what drives the movie, and even if the plot is pure fluff theyre usually able to milk some laughs out of it. Bad Boys is something of a relic from the mid-nineties, but it still holds quite well. Smith would go on to become one of the biggest movie stars ever, Bay would transform into one of the most successful action directors of all time and Martin Lawrence... umm, Big Mommas House: Like Father, Like Son anybody?
