Playboy Lowrey might be mainlining another brand new Porsche and forever scanning for single ladies, but a secret mid-life crisis means he's dyeing his signature goatee (leading to one of the film's best gags) and wondering if the detective he broke up with, Rita (Mexican star Paola Nunez), might be the one that got away. Joe Pantoliano's highly strung Captain Howard is the mastermind behind elite high-tech police unit AMMO. Old man jokes abound like so many expanding waistlines as we reconvene with our heroes, who are still on the city's crime beat and under the exasperated command of Captain Howard - a tireless Joe Pantoliano, still hamming his way through a masterclass in disgruntled boss cliche - as the vagaries of middle-age begin to descend upon them. LoadingĪnd while the belated instalment could never hope to match the glorious, stylistic hubris of its predecessors - which turned the art of slow-mo, low-angle action into vulgar, transcendent poetry - incoming Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah deliver a mostly satisfying coda, paying tribute to the master's kinetic formalism while playing a heavy hand of sentiment that's on brand for a series which has never exactly been subtle. Yep, Miami PD's kings of collateral damage are back bickering and blasting their way through this distant sequel to Michael Bay's Bad Boys (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003), minus the director who made the series his trademark.

His gung-ho, action junkie partner Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) is swift to shoot him down: 'Who the hell wants to sing that song?' 'All our lives we've been bad boys, now it's time to be good men,' says middle-aged detective Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence), confronted with a violent suspect itching for a brawl halfway through Bad Boys for Life.

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