Now, Bad Boys for Life isn't a political movie. Bad Boys for Life deals with those issues, at least indirectly. Lowry and Burnett's shoot first, ask questions later-style of policing is a little harder to swallow given recent conversations about police brutality. The older movies are homophobic and slightly racist.

The characters' ages also let Bad Boys for Life tackle an inconvenient truth: To modern sensibilities, Bad Boys hasn't aged particularly well. Lowry and Burnett are still caricatures, but they feel more lived in than ever before, helping sell the drama. It's all very funny, but it also helps ground Bad Boys for Life in a way that the previous two movies weren't. They shouldn't be able to pull off ridiculously athletic stunts with ease, or instantly charm co-workers half their age. Let's face it, Mike and Marcus shouldn't be able to flirt their way past the bouncer at a nightclub. If you can overlook some of these flaws, though, you'll have a grand old time. Bad Boys for Life is an unexpectedly ambitious film that doesn't really pull it all together. Apparently, Lowry is the one who busted Isabel and her husband back in the day, and now that she's out of prison she and Armando will do anything they can to make the Miami PD officer's life utterly miserable.īad Boys for Life is full of bullets, explosions, and quips, but is it any good? That depends.

Not that it matters when Isabel and Armando Artas, a mother-son criminal team, show up for revenge. They're older but not much wiser, and are beginning to realize that they can't keep this up, well, for life. Keeping the streets of Miami safe for so long has taken its toll on detectives Mike Lowry (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence). In Bad Boys for Life, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith return to the franchise that kickstarted Michael Bay's career, but they're not exactly the same cops that you saw before.

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