What defines a “Bad Boys” movie? It’s been 17 years since the last sequel came out, but some of the key elements are still easy to pin down: You need Will Smith as flashy Detective Sergeant Michael “Mike” Lowery, and Martin Lawrence as his slightly more sedate platonic life partner Detective Sergeant Marcus Burnett. You need Miami in all of its hyper-saturated splendor — nuclear orange skies, bikinis on the boardwalk, and a bass so thick that it seems to bounce the entire city. And you need an unfiltered mega-dose of whatever mutant testosterone has been oozing out of Michael Bay’s every pore since he first hit puberty. We’re talking all three of the big Gs: guns, gangsters, and gay…

Rotten Tomatoes: 77%
Metacritic Metascore: 59
IMDB: 6.8

69/100

Release Date: 17 January 2020
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Budget: $90M
Worldwide Gross: $419M
Filming Locations: Miami, Florida
Directors: Adil El Arbi - Bilall Fallah
Writers: Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan

Marcus Burnett: "We're not just black, we're cops too! We'll pull ourselves over later!"

SYNOPSIS: Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett must face off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak vengeful havoc on their city.

With some much-needed change in direction, an improvement in action and humor, and as always the beloved chemistry of Lawrence and Smith, Bad Boys For Life truly harnesses the potential of the franchise by doing something different and graciously succeeding. The film is…

Although it is not quite as bombastic as Bad Boys II was, Bad Boys for Life is absolutely a well-done addition to the Bad Boys franchise as a whole and I'd say the 17-year wait for this one was indeed worth it even if I didn't get around to these films till now.

Bay's stylistic direction from the previous two is sorely missed with this entry to the series, though beneficially the intended direction from both the latest duos, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, for this third Bad Boys film turned out to be fresh and I do prefer when innovative notions occur especially since this was a dormant franchise for some time now. While some of the specific…

honest to god, when they started doing sleeper holds, running knee strikes and a fucking superman punch in the middle of fire, I knew that I was back in my childhood paradise. Will Smith playing an absolutely relentless cruel sociopath causing unmitigated destruction, while Martin Lawrence is playing with an adorable baby and driving a minivan, wonderful juxtaposition. so many iconic kills. nowhere near as gleefully sadistic as II but it maintains the series’ toxic and brutally violent edges while attempting to add something about aging and mortality. regardless of how effective you think it is (I think it makes a bunch of moments really sing but needed a little more time to make the coda truly pop) it’s undeniable…

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The Bad Boys franchise is one that I have never really gravitated to. It’s absolutely okay, and the movies are “fun enough,” but they didn’t do enough to keep me invested in the franchise (rewatch-wise). This is a sequel that I never knew we all needed. Let’s be honest here; replacing Michael Bay helped. This takes nothing away from the style he implemented in the first two, but the basis of his style is expanded into nonsense (at times) in the previous films. In this film; we get some new (semi-unknown) directors that take Bay’s visual style and add in their own flare. They keep the camera a bit more steady,…

Well well... I'm surprised this film feels somehow like Michael Bay but wasn't directed by Michael Bay and is still produced by Jerry Bruckheimer but directed by moroccan guys. I gotta say it's now more of a comedy than a full action-packed movie. Nevertheless, their dialogues and jokes felt really hilarious, fitting with the modern world and even more with the couple's ages, considering they are notoriously old. I really liked that the characters themselves joke about the drama behind some scenes, mentioning the incoherences of some plot points in a very funny way. They even acknowledge the similarities this movie has with Mexican telenovelas. Specially Martin Lawrence gave me some good laughs with his lines and his attempts to…

Will Smith tries on Vin Diesel’s clothes. The Fast and the Furious-ification of Bad Boys in that “it’s about family” this time. Which kinda makes sense, as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are getting older, so obviously this was never going to be as nasty as the first two. I’m fine with that. It’s not as obnoxious as movie one or as punishingly long and exhausting as movie 2. It’s just boring and bland. The first two movies probably wouldn’t fly today, so they’re softening the edges at tad to fit with the times. Again, that’s fine. But something’s missing. Perhaps it’s too watered down, but I think the real problem though is too much convoluted story and too much self-seriousness.…

After a while, this reminded me of Fate of the Furious, except not as ridiculous and somehow more boring. This was duuuuuuuuuuuuull. I’m honestly baffled by the reviews for this. Yes, its more focused on the characters than the last one. Yes, it’s not as crassly hateful or nearly as dumb. But so what? It’s still stupid. The story is contrived and convoluted. The new characters aren’t interesting. The action is as basic as generic action movies are today. I don’t care. I was on my iPad through most of this, and reading to see if there were more updates on Trump’s upcoming senate impeachment. THAT IS HOW BORED I WAS! To give this one credit, at least it didn’t…