{"id":32585,"date":"2020-01-20T19:46:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=32585"},"modified":"2020-01-20T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:46:28","slug":"bad-boys-for-life-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/bad-boys-for-life-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Boys For Life (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As Disney soaks up just about every viable property and franchise in Hollywood, studios have sought out some of the more vacant properties, and here comes the long dormant \u201cBad Boys\u201d series. With the nineties as popular as ever, \u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d is a great property to revive. The new sequel acts as a soft reboot that could potentially help it live past Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and in to the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d long road. \u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d is a shockingly good restart for a new series, and I like how the producers take the titular heroes and allow them to grow in a world that\u2019s becoming harder to keep up with.<\/p>\n

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Still friends after so many years, Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are facing middle age, and Mike is trying to figure out if he wants to continue risking his life after a disastrous police bust involving an old nemesis. After swearing off risking their lives and approaching early retirement, the two re-unites \u201cone last time\u201d to bring down the wife of Mexican drug cartel boss, as well as her hot headed and psychopathic son. Both gangsters are committed to murdering everyone involved in their case, and now they\u2019re after Mike. Despite \u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d being an obvious cash grab for the nostalgia bucks, this reboot and sequel feels like a great re-visit to what was always a lukewarm action series.<\/p>\n

Smith and Lawrence bring their A game to what is a very solid action film with surprising heart behind it. While \u201cLethal Weapon 4\u201d kind of poked fun at Riggs and Murtaugh directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah manage to show the pair here at a crossroads in their lives where they don\u2019t think jumping in to a hail of bullets is fun anymore. This is especially true when we meet the newest pair of villains, both of whom are easily the most menacing this movie series has had to date. Their ability to murder like it\u2019s a bodily function amounts to a ton of high stakes moments, where Marcus and Mike have to literally be on guard where ever they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d throws around ideas that this is their last hurrah and that Marcus and Mike are having one more adventure, but we all know what the movie works toward from minute one. \u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d builds up to laying the platform for a potential spin off series, or maybe new characters, all of whom have some sort of personal stake and their own individual back stories. Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah turn \u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d in to a team movie that is obviously engineered for wider franchise potential, and it livens up what was always a middling movie series, anyway.<\/p>\n

Smith and Lawrence are so good in the return to their characters, and directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah side step the Michael Bay aesthetic for a more low-key albeit stylish re-visit to this universe and these characters. While I\u2019m still lukewarm on the \u201cBad Boys\u201d series, \u201cBad Boys For Life\u201d is a huge step up from the abysmal \u201cBad Boys II,\u201d offering heart, engaging action, and some great plot twists.<\/p>\n