The Return of the Bad Boys: One Last Ride
[usr 4.5]
By George Robbins
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen Bad Boys for Life, this review will be filled with massive spoilers for the movie.
I very recently went to see the new Bad Boys for Life film and I can say for sure that it’s a fun movie that is almost on par with the first two movies. There may be a bit of bias on my part because I grew up with the first two films and liked them just that little bit more. It is exactly what you would expect from a Bad Boys film where it is just full of over-the-top action. In between the ridiculous action sequences, which I love because the film knows what it is, there is plenty of humor. It doesn’t feel like forced humor either, it is natural and genuinely funny to hear when it does happen.
While I may have enjoyed the movie for the humor, I thought that the action scenes were just a little too over-the-top with all of the explosions. There are explosions littered throughout the film, making every action scene seem like a war zone. Everything that gets shot seems like it explodes, and I have nothing against that in movies, because I know explosions sell seats, but it just feels like too much. Seriously though, the humor in the film is spot on especially between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. I can usually guess how plots are going to go in films, and it may have just been because I was enjoying the film, but I was certainly not expecting the antagonist to be the son of a main character.
Smith and Lawrence performed incredibly, the cinematography is very well done, and the supporting cast is all fantastic. I wasn’t expecting myself to enjoy the film as much as I did because sequels made so much later after the previous film usually are nowhere near as good as the older ones. The scene at the end of the film with Mike Lowry (Will Smith) and his son that suggests perhaps that there could be a new film or a spin-off of some kind. Even if there isn’t, the film ends, at least for me, in a very satisfying way where I’d be happy with this truly being the last of the Bad Boy films. If you read this without watching the movie, then you missed out on a couple of surprises, but go watch it anyway because it is definitely worth the price of admission.
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