Except for our heroes: Mike is recovering from his injuries and banned from investigating his own case, and Marcus took his friend’s bullet wounds as a sign to retire.
When the son of a Mexican cartel boss targets Mike and several other law enforcement officers throughout Florida, cops old and new take to the streets to crack the case. By reuniting a pair we haven’t seen on screen in nearly 17 years, Bad Boys for Life becomes Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood for ’90s action comedies. The days of running, jumping, and plowing a Cadillac CTS through a hurricane of corpses are mostly over. Marcus is more aware of his mortality than ever before. Women at the clubs don’t look their way (mostly because they’re over 30 years old and hanging out at clubs). But instead of pretending the pair are Miami’s answer to the Expendables, screenwriters Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, and Joe Carnahan reflect on the characters’ place in the shoot-’em-up cosmos.Ī new generation of cops aims to replace their off-the-books detective work with HR-approved tactics. Smith, 51, and Lawrence, 54, are, in the immortal words of Lethal Weapon’s Roger Murtaugh, too old for this shit.
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What would once have been a montage of roadsters and machine-gun fire is now a cross-cutting gag of Mike’s across-the-line info-gathering tactics and Marcus in full recline. But with a new grandson, a loving marriage, and the weight of old(er) age keeping him down, Marcus feels less Bad Boy than La-Z-Boy. Mike Lowery ( Will Smith) is hot on the trail of a motorcycle-driving assailant who gunned him down mid-wheelie, and he could probably use Marcus’ help. A third of the way into Bad Boys for Life, the trilogy-capper of Michael Bay’s hyperkinetic, hyper-saturated action franchise, Martin Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett takes a nap.