A third Bad
Boys movie has been a long time coming. The movie as a whole is fun and
not a bad watch, but it’s not a great movie either.
I enjoyed the action, liked the new addition to the crew (the AMMO squad), and
wasn’t too cool about the exclusions from the crew. The movie may not live up
to the huge splash of magnificence set by the first Bad Boys movie in
1995, but unlike the second part (which was wack) in 2003, it’s a welcome
addition.
First, a little
groundwork: we know the movie is about two buddy cops who seem to fit the Lethal
Weapon kind of relationship. As a matter of fact, in Bad Boys one,
they were like a copy of Riggs and Murtaugh, but this time both were irrational
and trigger-happy. In this movie, they’ve turned the duo’s relationship into
that of the Lethal Weapon duo, Riggs and Murtaugh. You’ll best
understand when you see it, especially with the idea of Murtaugh always feeling
too old for this kind of thing.
Although, in the
end, they left a nice trail to digress into a new model, possibly setting up a
sequel, Bad Boys 4.
Marcus (Martin
Lawrence) and Mike (Will Smith) are a dangerous duo, and no movie does justice
to how dangerous these two are like Bad Boys one. This movie is full
of action, but the comedy isn’t as intense. The movie starts seventeen years
after the last Bad Boys movie, and we see Marcus become a
grandfather.
After that, there’s a prison break, and a very strange woman is freed thanks to
help from her son. She has files on people she wants revenge on and gives the
files to her son, along with the location of a huge sum of money he can use to
fund this revenge.
Very soon, we
get to see that her son is a badass. He starts the revenge party but doesn’t
follow his mother’s direct orders, which causes our two leads to be adrift from
all that’s happening in the world for six months. Soon, they’re back, and the
case is brought closer to them now with the death of a mutual friend. They
decide to take down this family with the aid of the new AMMO squad of Miami
PD—a group of tactical young people who use all forms of gadgets.
The movie’s plot
centers around the two trying to stop the son of the lady from killing more
people, and very soon, we get dragged deep into why all of this concerns Mike.
The movie has
positive reviews and is doing very well at the box office, especially compared
to the waste of time that was Will Smith’s last movie, Gemini Man (2019).
It’s a nice
action flick to go see.
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