The fourth installment in the Bad Boys franchise gets some chuckles from stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence — but otherwise fails in almost every regard.Will Smith, right, and Martin Lawrence star in Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which is a disappointing follow-up to the earlier movies. Aside from virtually growing up alongside the buddy-cop movies, I come with something bordering on a mania: as a young, explosions-obsessed child in the early 2000s, I once spent a summer rewatching.
There's nothing inherently wrong with following genre formulas, and this one is an action favourite for a reason: just as how virtually every young adult novel casts its hero as an orphan to explain away why a parent doesn't simply step in to save them, late-stage law enforcement series fromfeels like the reanimated corpse of a reanimated corpse that's been thrown face first through a focus group boardroom.
While it has all the elements of action, Bad Boys: Ride or Die doesn't feel like a fully fleshed out story. At the same time, a veritable rogue's gallery of cameos and callbacks litter the two hour runtime — most notably Joe Pantoliano's Captain Howard.
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