To think, from 1995 till now I thought the only Bad Boys were Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Well, them and "Cops." And as much as I love "Bad Boys" '95, Sean Penn Bad Boys '83 is probably better. I feel like I'm sinning just saying that.
Sean Penn discarded the surfer dude slacker Spicoli act for the juvenile delinquent Mick O'Brien and he was terrific.
Mick ran the streets of Chicago. I don't mean that he was some boss of the streets, I mean like when someone asks a mother where her son is and she says, "Out running the streets." He was always in and out of trouble and he was looking for more trouble when he decided he was going to rob some drug dealers. The robbery went sideways and in his attempts to flee he ran over a kid. That act landed him in Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility. Rainford is where we got to see what Mick was really made of.
I thought the movie was fantastic. It was a down and dirty movie from the street life of the main characters to life inside a correctional facility. I had my issues with how the facility was run but it also allowed for a natural unfolding of a pecking order and the behavior one would expect from boys locked up. There was nothing to be celebrated at Rainford, while life went on outside it stood still for the condemned.
Sean Penn discarded the surfer dude slacker Spicoli act for the juvenile delinquent Mick O'Brien and he was terrific.
Mick ran the streets of Chicago. I don't mean that he was some boss of the streets, I mean like when someone asks a mother where her son is and she says, "Out running the streets." He was always in and out of trouble and he was looking for more trouble when he decided he was going to rob some drug dealers. The robbery went sideways and in his attempts to flee he ran over a kid. That act landed him in Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility. Rainford is where we got to see what Mick was really made of.
I thought the movie was fantastic. It was a down and dirty movie from the street life of the main characters to life inside a correctional facility. I had my issues with how the facility was run but it also allowed for a natural unfolding of a pecking order and the behavior one would expect from boys locked up. There was nothing to be celebrated at Rainford, while life went on outside it stood still for the condemned.