Bad Boys For Life Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

5. The Villains Are The Series' Best

Even hardcore fans of the first two movies will surely agree that the villains weren't really in any way memorable, beyond serving as generic, video game-y excuses for the plentiful action to ensue.

So credit it is to Bad Boys for Life for actually putting a little more effort into its two central antagonists, Isabel Aretas (Kate del Castillo) and her underling Armando Armas (Jacob Scipio).

Isabel has a personal reason for targeting Mike and Marcus, and a surprising amount of time is invested in building her up to be their most fierce foe yet, aided by Kate del Castillo's at-once intimidating and sexy performance.

Scipio's Armas is meanwhile the muscle of her operation, and while seemingly a generic grunt at first glance, is also developed far beyond that by film's end.

Though not everything the film does with these characters quite works, it's simply refreshing to see a Bad Boys movie actually treating its antagonists as something more than disposable non-entities.