15 Most Overrated Movies Of The 2020s (So Far)
8. Bad Boys For Life
Rotten Tomatoes: 76% (Average Score: 6.20/10)
IMDb: 6.5
Bad Boys for Life sucks.
There's some mindless entertainment to be had and Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are a good double-act, but it'd be hard to credibly argue that this is a good film.
With its bloated run-time, so-so action, forgettable banter and terrible story-line (which includes yet another one of those awful 'everyone is family' plot-twists Hollywood keeps insisting on these days), Bad Boys 3 is simply not a well-executed action flick.
Of course, no-one was coming to this movie expecting high art or some great dramatic narrative but since this movie completely lacks the self-awareness, charming humour and genuinely awe-inspiring action of movies like the Fast & Furious and Mission: Impossible franchises, the entire thing falls completely flat.
Therefore, one can only wonder in bewilderment as to how this got such good reviews. This wasn't a case where people might've just been glad to see a 2020 blockbuster, since it was released prior to Covid, and it wasn't like people were mad-keen to see the titular characters return. The first films weren't exactly critical darlings.
Just ridiculous.
An Underrated Alternative: Searching (2018), a tremendous kidnapping thriller... yes, it's very different from Bad Boys 3 but it delivers more excitement per minute of screen-time than Bad Boys did in two hours, all with a tiny budget and a story that unfolds entirely over screens.