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Excellent adaptation.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This big time early eighties release has been all but forgotten until it started showing up on cable a few times recently.Sean Pean was still too young to be a political agitator, and he was desperate to shed his Jeff Spicoli image with this tough youth prison flick. He does a good job as O'Brien, who winds up behind bars after killing someone during his juvenile crime spree. He rises up the ranks of the prison hierarchy until Esai Morales, the brother of the boy he killed, winds up in the same jail looking for revenge. It's an old time prison movie right down to the wailing siren you hear during a daylight escape. In addition to Penn and Santoni, you'll also see a youthful Clancy Brown perfecting his on screen villainy as a brutal con.This movie was kind of a big deal in our area when it was filmed. I lived near where they shot most of it, and I remember the newspaper put out a casting call for local kids to try out for bit parts in the movie.

I look at this as a sequel to Fast Times at Ridgement High(1982). Jeff Spicoluoi has graduated from high school. Jennifer Jason Leigh is nowhere to be seen, Mr. Hand is dead, and Judge Reinhold is trapped inside Fred Savage's little preteen body. Jeff Spicoluoi has been kicked out of his parents' house for not having a job, the mean, tough, rough, wrong kind of love from any parent to any son or daughter, whether we as a son and daughter are adopted, a stepson or stepdaughter, or a real son and daughter belonging to real parents, a real Daddy and Mommy, Dad and Mom, Pa and Ma, Pops and Momma, WRONG! Wrong, wrong what I just said before. With no money to buy the stuff he was seen smoking in Fast Times at Ridgement High(1982), that stuff he was seen smoking was called pot, his dreams of being a star surfer go away, the dreams of being a star surfer go up in smoke, there's no more dreams of being a star surfer for Jeff Spicoluoi, because Jeff Spicoluoi does not have the smoking stuff to smoke out of his mouth, what we all as people like to call pot, the stuff that people smoke, because Jeff Spicoluoi is not alone. Everyone here on this world and planet here we call Earth smokes pot. That's why in Fast Times at Ridgement High(1982), in the movie we saw, Spicoluoi was a star surfer, Jeff Spicoluoi was smoking pot. Jeff Spicoluoi in this movie here I'm writing about on the computer, Bad Boys(1983), Jeff Spicoluoi has no pot, so he turns to and does bad stuff, because Jeff Spicoluoi does not have pot, Jeff Spicoluoi turns to and does crime. Jeff Spicoluoi gets tossed in jail because of crime, and Jeff Spicoluoi keeps pulling the punches, like another Irish guy in another movie, Jimmy Cagney in White Heat(1949). Jeff Spicoluoi gets out of jail, marries and divorces Madonna, works for the LAPD, and wins a couple of Oscars. A regret free life for Mr. Jeff Spicoluoi.

This is a fantastic crime drama/thriller about a troubled teen(Penn) who accidentally kills a young boy during a bungled drug heist. He is sent to a maximum security juvenile correctional facility and is thrown in with some of the meanest, most violent young criminals. Meanwhile, the older brother of the young boy that he accidentally killed is out for revenge and tries to get back at him through his girlfriend(Ally Sheedy) outside of prison.Many of the horrific images in this film will stay with you for a long time. There is a constant sense of fear and danger that lingers throughout the film and is highlighted by a terrific score by Bill Conti(Rocky, The Karate Kid). Penn gives one of his best performances here. A must see film.

Bad Boys, starring Sean Penn as Mick O'Brien and Esai Morales as Paco Moreno, is one of the most entertaining and disturbing movies ever. But to focus on the two leads is unfair to the host of other actors who put in magnificent performances, particularly actor Eric Gurry as Barry Horowitz.Teen Mick O'Brien is a vicious gangster punk. When one of his armed robbery schemes goes awry, a robbery of a drug deal involving Paco Moreno, he unintentionally runs down and kills Moreno's little brother, and ends up in juvenile prison. His cell mate is Horowitz. After an awkward start they become close friends and confidantes. Horowitz, who has been there a while, teaches O'Brien the ropes. Meanwhile prison guard and counselor Ramon Herrera (actor Reni Santoni) wants to set Mick on the right path, but this is not an easy task.The prison officials have given authority over other prisoners to two tough inmates, cell mates Viking (actor Clancy Brown) and Tweety (actor Robert Lee Rush), who get to hand out prison work assignments, receive the profits from cigarette sales, etc. They immediately come into conflict with O'Brien and Horowitz. O'Brien manages to usurp their position of authority, leading to further conflicts. O'Brien's toughness and street smarts make him the winner time and again.The character of Horowitz, a young Jewish boy who came to juvey after a botched revenge plot, is worth a whole review by itself. What a shame that this magnificent actor, Eric Gurry, has appeared in relatively few films. Though he is small and weak and would appear to be of little help in a fight, his wit, dogged determination and superior intelligence help him to survive in this environment where he is very out of place. Despite being nothing like the other prisoners, as the film progresses we learn that he has strong criminal tendencies and prison is probably where he belongs.Moreno, seeking revenge on O'Brien, beats and rapes O'Brien's girlfriend (actress Ally Sheedy) so he can go to prison and get even. Tweety is paroled, and Moreno moves in as Viking's roommate. These kindred spirits promptly begin plotting against O'Brien.Circumstances take both Viking and Horowitz out of the picture, leaving Moreno and O'Brien to face a final showdown alone.