Bad Boys for Life 2020 by AverageMansReviews

Bad Boys for Life 2020 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/racism/stabbing/cutting/torture/burning/ritual/torture/animal cruelty/drugs/electrocution/squashing/vehicle crashing/impaling/medical

Just a very short 17 years later between instalments [meant with sarcasm:] rough outline; Detective Lieutenant  Michael "Mike" Lowrey/Uncle Mike/other name [Will Smith:] he is still charismatic and financially well off, now including no longer being with Sydney 'Syd' Burnett. Detective Lieutenant Marcus Burnett/Pop-pop [Martin Lawrence:] he is still a family man, in fact these two are quickly rushing to the hospital to see/meet their first grandchild, because of this Detective Lieutenant Burnett/Pop-pop is now strongly thinking of retirement from the Miami PD, but unknown to them someone is out for revenge and it is worth noting again that we have a cameo from Michael Bay as Wedding MC.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 124 minutes film; well this entire project is heavily problematic for roughly the first half. It never gets going which is detrimental to this instalment, including a 6 month time jump, on top of that it splits up this partnership which is just dumb; let's just split up this partnership which carried the first sequel [I know it was some years ago, but it is still a valid point nonetheless,] that sounds like a great idea Not! Which at this point in this sequel it can be easily split down Burnett comedy; simply put no thank you, it is not funny or amusing/Lowrey action and art; this works including in one action sequence in this garage location in place of business so we have a gun to go with car paint or just paint of some description through this chaotic sequence of events there is this paint having a presence in this sequence at some point which is a creative touch, but let's be honest it does feel like Burnett is missing; so if I haven't made this crystal clear yet let's try not to do this kind of character development again shall we, it just doesn't work, if something works it does need fixing.

Now together; Lowrey/Smith and Burnett/Lawrence; when they put the band back together again there is this outstanding sky colour system, they have this serious yet comical intention on this plane as they involve another passenger switching chairs that kind of skit variety. Later on Burnett has a crisis of religion as this partnership has been smartly updated to represent Burnett as a man of religion, whilst Lowrey is a sinner as in one is an angel whilst the other is a fallen angel; which in turn reinforces their lifelong brotherhood, just for the record I am not being racial here they are best friends/brothers/family. But back to this sequence; we have our partnership on his motorbike with site card which conveniently has this massive gun built on to it, so through this chaos Lowrey is trying to obviously deal with this situation, but obviously also trying to get his partner through his crisis of religion so he will use the gun; this is more like it as it relates to this franchise and this working partner/family connection.

For the rest of the cast their character developments are all good and the performances from all of the cast are likewise all good, there isn't much more I can say about it really, because of the first half; it puts this film back on its heels to start with.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; as I have made it crystal clear throughout this content in one way or another the first half or somewhere around here is in essence a disaster and whilst I'm on the subject they could have clearly took off 34 minutes of this film, but as you can see they had to really work hard to get this respectable [with taking everything into consideration it is a respectable mark,] even though based on my opinion it is the lowest marking of an instalment from this franchise so far and yes we have two extra scenes both roughly around the title of this film and the first ending credits. This film has some awards accredited to its name; 3 Winners People's Choice Awards, USA 2020 People's Choice Award Favorite Male Movie Star Will Smith and 15 Nominees which includes from the same award ceremony/event I mentioned earlier Favorite Female Movie Star Vanessa Hudgens (actor) [as Kelly; a member of this AMMO -  Advanced Miami Metro Operations.]