Bad Boys 2 Analysis

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Recently, I was scrolling through Netflix and decided to watch the movie Bad Boys 2. This movie was about a drug king (Johnny Tapia) who is overflowing the streets of Miami with ecstasy. It is the job of two men(Marcus and Mike) who are on the tactical narcotics team and one female (Syd) on the DEA(Drug Enforcement agency) to pursue and arrest him .While on the job they go through various obstacles and amazing action scenes while chasing there bad guy. At the end of the movie the female tries to be the hero and gets caught and it is now the job of the two male officers to go in and save her. While watching the movie there are various forms of gender profiling. For example, Syd is only on the DEA because she is a female and her good looks.

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