Bad Boys For Life Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

2. It Features The Worst Action Of The Trilogy

If the third Bad Boys has any one major inferiority to its predecessors, it's surely in the action stakes.

Michael Bay controversially didn't return to direct the film, being replaced by relatively unknown Belgian filmmaking duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and disappointingly, there's a surprising lack of sustained action in the first half of the movie.

Even when things ramp up later on, the set-pieces lack the chaotic insanity of Bay's work on Bad Boys II in particular, likely a result of both this film's lower budget - costing an entire $40 million less than the second film - and the directors' lesser confidence behind the camera.

A mid-film motorcycle chase is fun to a point and the final third-act shootout is undeniably entertaining, but both feel positively restrained compared to Bay's more outlandish work on both prior films.

If Bad Boys II, for all of its flaws, features numerous unforgettable action sequences, there's not a lot here that'll actually stick in the mind for long, sadly.