Bad Boys

Continuity mistake: When Marcus Burnett drops Julie Mott off at Mike Lowery's apartment it's dark outside. When he leaves shortly after, there is daylight outside.

Jamrock24

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Suggested correction: I'm confused. Daylight outside where? Marcus is shown in the lobby; artificial lights on, no windows. Then he is at his house; lights on downstairs, blinds down, he is there to sleep and has to do that on the couch. Then it's the morning after.

Sammo

Audio problem: When Mike and Marcus are driving in Marcus's car, just before they sing Bad Boys, in the shot over Mike's shoulder we see that what he is saying does not match the movement of his mouth. (00:22:40)

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Suggested correction: But Will Smith is not speaking in that shot. Martin Lawrence is saying something corny ("I'm a baaad boy") that is the cue for the song. Smith is just mouthing under his breath.

Sammo

Other mistake: In the film, Lawrence and Smith's characters are Narcotics detectives with Miami Dade Police. There's no way they should be at any homicide investigations. Narc and homicide are totally two different units within law enforcement, so it's unlikely narcotics units would be at a homicide scene. Being the scene where they're investigating Smith's friend getting killed, and then they stumble across the dead body at the mansion.

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Suggested correction: The captain called Mike and Marcus to the scene to help because it appeared related to the missing drugs. They were there to find leads to the missing heroin.

Bishop73

Yes, that could be correct, but the chances of that happening are slim to none. A captain from Narcotics wouldn't even have authorization to call his detectives to a murder scene to help out homicide detectives working a murder. Any information or clues would be collected and shared with other units or agencies if deemed appropriate.

Then you missed the entire premise of the movie.

Bishop73

We're talking about real-life scenarios here, not the fictional script or scenes in the film.

Implausible is not the same as impossible. The movie scenario is implausible. That doesn't make it a mistake.

lionhead

Other mistake: Near the end of the movie, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith are in a Porsche catching the bad guy. The whole time Martin Lawrence is driving, BOTH hands are on the steering wheel. Now most of us know that Porsches have a manual transmission, so shouldn't Martin Lawrence be switching gears during the chase?

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Suggested correction: Hopefully someone else can confirm, but it appears that from around 1995 onwards some Porsche models came with an optional 'tiptronic' automatic transmission.

david barlow

It was Michael Bay's own personal car used in the movie, a manual transmission model. But even if we do not use "outside" knowledge, we see the gear stick in the movie at the very beginning when Martin Lawrence spills fries all over it. So no, despite what the correction says, it's not an automatic version.

Sammo

Other mistake: In the scene where Mike returns to his apartment for the first time since Julie was living there, as they walk towards the elevator Chet says "Hey Mr Lowrey" to Mike then says "Hey Mr Lowrey" to Marcus although Marcus never told him that he was taking Mike's identity. (00:59:45)

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Suggested correction: It's not in real time. They could have been back on a different occasion; we just aren't shown it.

"They" couldn't since it's the first time Mike is back. However, I still upvoted the correction because we never see when Marcus walked in or out the time he showed mugshots to Julie, so yes, he could have told Chet about the ruse on either occasion.

Sammo

Plot hole: Why was $100,000,000 worth of heroin sitting in the police vault all this time before the bad guys stole it? Wouldn't the DEA have taken possession of the drugs long before that?

More mistakes in Bad Boys

Marcus Burnett: You see what happens when you go off without me? You get into shit.
Mike Lowrey: Oh please, like shit don't happen when you're there.
Marcus Burnett: That - that ain't the point.

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Trivia: Pretty much all of the dialog between Martin Lawrence and Will Smith was ad-libbed. The original script can be found here: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Bad-Boys.html, as Don Simpson and Jerry Buckheimer thought it would be better and more funny.

tattoojunkie

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