Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are in their prime with this frenetic police procedural / comedy, and they’d go on to re-team with Bay for one more round in 2002 with Bad Boys II.
If you ever wanted to remind yourself what prime Michael Bay action felt like, this is the place to go.
Back in the golden age of Michael Bay, the well-known blockbuster auteur was a hungry young man with something to prove.
With that fire in his belly, he made some of the best action movies of the mid to late ’90s, and helped redefine a genre with works such as Bad Boys.