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Even the film’s most potentially serious moments, its violent interrogation scenes and bedside vigils in the hospital, are served with a strong chaser of deliberate bathos and knowing winks.īad Boys For Life is not high art and it’s not going to win any Oscars (even if its cast is far more diverse than literally every Oscar-nominated film this year). The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back together for one last ride in the highly anticipated Bad Boys for Life.
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Lawrence, in particular, is reminiscent of Danny DeVito in his comic acting (this is a compliment). Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct. There are some misfires, including a couple of moments when the characters over-explain their jokes – we don’t need Rainier Wolfcastle to help us out, thanks – but, ultimately, the film’s mercifully funny, when it could have been in danger of taking itself too seriously. With Lisa Boyle, Michael Taliferro, Emmanuel Xuereb, Tchky Karyo. But, obviously, the old tricks still work.īad Boys For Life plays up to each of its leads’ strengths: Lawrence’s comedy and Smith’s action chops and all-round likability. He's also the founding editor at Vague Visages, and has contributed to and Fandor. John Wick 4 Actor Credits Halle Berry For Him Getting Cast in Sequel.
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Adil and Bilall recognise the long-delayed sequel trope for what it is and play it for laughs: as the old guard, Mike and Marcus are at risk of being replaced by new, tech-savvy youngsters in the form of new police unit "Ammo" (a barely- used Vanessa Hudgens and two musclebound bros, plus Mike’s new love interest, Rita). Bad Boys for Life (2020) Release date: Jan 17, 2020. “The bad boys aren’t really boys any more,” quips police captain Howard.
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Rather than try to hide it, though, the film also lampshades their age massively – there are jokes about Mike dyeing his beard and a big plot point revolves around how Marcus is now a grandad. Bad Boys for Life remained in first place on the international box office chart, again, this time earning 31.21 million on 13,180 screens in 81 markets for totals of 143.09 million internationally and 291.15 million worldwide. Lawrence’s reappearance is more of a shock, given most of us haven’t seen anything he’s been in since the last Bad Boys (tempted though I was to buy a ticket for Big Momma’s House II and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, those being the American answer to Mrs Brown’s Boys). Twenty-five years after the original, it takes a moment for it to sink in that 51-year-old Smith looks almost exactly the same as he did back then.