Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
5/10
Starring
Will Smith
Martin
Lawrence
Directed
by Adil & Bilall
I know
Will Smith is on a redemption run, so this movie is a good start on that run.
It is not as bad as you will expect it. It is also not as great or cool as I thought
it will be. My problem is movies of now lack the grit of the times when the
first Bad
Boys was done.
Now
everything must have some computer genius moving accounts, hacking and cryptic
messages and bad guys who seem to have too much connection into things, that
just is so unrealistic.
You can send a
cryptic message to people, so instead of just sending them the message
directly, what you do is this. You send them a message, that points them to
someone. The someone then hid a link to another message in a flashing screen,
which can only be seen if you record the screen and go through it frame by
frame. How did they discover this link? Well, an officer without any prompt
from anyone decided to do the frame by frame look at a flashing screen, like…
what?
How did she know
to do that?
The lazy writing
in this movie is so apparent it is annoying. The movie’s plot makes no sense at
all and that in itself is even more annoying. I watched it to the end, thinking
there will be a reason, why the bad guys, who have gotten away with killing the
captain, will decide to bring up the matter again after many years. But I guess
the writers are so lazy, they just could not find a better way to get the two
actors angry.
All that said, I enjoyed
the action, and the references to the old movies, and I did enjoy some of the
comedic laughs I got seeing this movie, but the movie is not leaving behind a
lasting impression. Like the other two before this, it is easily forgettable. The
first Bad Boys movie
leaves an everlasting imprint, the others after it do not.
This movie is
about Captain Howard, who as we know is dead. The whole Bad Boys franchise
(other than the first movie) is so forgettable, I was trying hard to remember this.
Now, in present time, the two buddy cops Mike (Will Smith) and Marcus (Martin Lawrence)
are at a wedding when Marcus had a heart attack and almost died.
His survival
meant he looked at life differently and then, Captain Howard is implicated in a
crime. His reputation is at stake because some millions have been found in his
account, dating back to years, showing he is in bed with the cartel.
Now, I am not
trying to ruin this, but even this setup was useless. You see, you can back date
payments and forge documents to make it look like you have been paying money
for some period, but this is traceable. Everything leaves a time stamp, so if
anyone does just a tiny bit of forensic check, they will see this is fake.
Hollywood writers must think everyone is dumb and knows nothing about how
computers work.
Mike and Marcus
are upset and want to clear their captain’s name, but they were not upset enough,
says the writers. So, the captain sent them a cryptic message that points them
to someone, who gets killed when he was trying to point them to the flashing
screen, then they get shot at and almost get killed trying to catch the bad
guys.
The movie, in a succinct
way, is about these two trying to clear their captain's name and identify the
corrupt cops in their station.
As far as lazy
writing goes, this movie is full of it, and it is so forgettable a movie.
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