Ride together, question our mortality together: our review of BadBoys for Life, the latest in the franchise about how all cops are psychopaths
thinks that’s OK: In 2003, we needed psychopaths to lead us crotch-deep into the new frontier of crime before which we—Americans, soggy and vulnerable sacks of flesh full of red, white and blue—stood, and Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett served well as avatars for the particular kind of hyper-violent, xenophobic supermen who’d hold the front line.
Until they are again. As Bay turns over the franchise, content being a literal wedding DJ for the uniting of these new brands—the marriage of nostalgia and breathless, idiotic futurism—now’s the best time to wonder at what makes amovie beyond the presence of Smith and Lawrence. Because Bay’s two films repeatedly walk them to the edge and back.
had nowhere left to go, no sense of decency left to desecrate. It was, and still is, the director’s magnum opus.. As Mike tells Marcus’s daughter on her wedding day, the mantra he gives to her and husband Reggie is one he’s shared with her dad for a generation now: “Bad boys for life!” The throughline of themovies is that every one after the first should not exist, but they do anyway, because they must.
seems to finally understand the sadness and regret at the heart of the character, knowing how to hold it in his eyes, to harness it as Mike Lowrey reveals new secrets about his past and further wades into chaos.
, Martin Lawrence, Joe Pantoliano, Paola Núñez, Vanessa Hudgens, DJ Khaled, Charles Melton, Alexander Ludwig, Kate del Castillo, Jacob Scipio
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