Bad Boys For Life Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

1. The Big Reveal Is Insanely Silly

No spoilers here, but a major truth bomb is dropped at the end of the film's second act which significantly changes Mike and Marcus' situation, and even for the standards of a Bad Boys movie, it's totally ridiculous.

Perhaps in a more generally absurd movie this twist might've actually worked, but given that Bad Boys for Life plays a lot of its melodrama straight and actually manages to get away with it, this rug-pull is just one step too daft.

It does recontextualise earlier events in the movie and the franchise in an interesting way, though it also results in some heavily contrived character work at the very end of the movie that fans may struggle to swallow down convincingly.

It doesn't sink the film by any means, but it does suggest that the writers were rather lazily taking cues from a certain popular blockbuster movie franchise.

With these gripes in mind, though, the third Bad Boys movie is mostly a winner. Here's what it gets right...