Reviews

I really liked the original B&T, although it shows its limitations on a rewatch all these years later. This however is very poor. There's really even less plot than the original movies, and Keanu looks like hes overdosed on botox.

What made the original ones fun was B&T going through time, having fun escapades in other times, and throwing historical figures into different times and having fun with how they handle it. In *this* movie all the historical figures are reduced to literal backing characters. There's very little if any humor that will make you laugh out loud. There *is* a robot that tries to act human (the actor does his best with what hes given), but it really misses the mark, quite possibly due to the fact that the robot looks identical to a man in a very very bad robot suit from a 50s sitcom. So really it just looks like a guy wearing a ridiculous robot frock acting like an idiot, and unfortunately not in a funny way.

As others have also pointed out, its also way too woke for its own good. I can only think of a single male character who was portrayed in any competent light, whereas the women are all people of competence and power. Virtually every character has been replaced by female versions. Even B&T get replaced in the end, by their daughters. (Spoiler) Turns out the fact that B&T had been working towards success for their entire lives wasn't important, as apparently their daughters, who have never even written a song previously, were really the ones going to save the universe after all (retconning the original movies, in a 'twist' so obvious its more a downward spiral). They do his by delivering the most insipid nonsense non song you've heard outside a malfunctioning elevator.

Even Death was both underutilized and strangely off in his portrayal, although his bass playing was probably the best of the 'music'. (spoiler) Discovering that B&T had a restraining order out on him was the only bit I found actually funny.

If you didn't pay anything for it, it would be about a 5, max. If you've wasted money on it you'll understand the two star rating.

The original Bad Boys was a great action movie. However, this one is just tired.

While the action scenes are well choreographed, they only make sense if you squint after having a lobotomy. I mean, a guy being held at gunpoint pulls out a knife, spins it around his finger to show off, then knifes the guy holding him at gunpoint, a move that literally takes at least 2 seconds, during which both the guy holding the gun and his bodyguards just stand there.

Unfortunately, thats pretty much one of the more believable action scenes, which abound with physics that 90's videogames do more convincingly. Don't get me started on the fact that neither of the two leads seem interested in catching the assassin with anything but bare hands, letting him escape by simply running off rather than shooting him, as you'd imagine you'd be inclined to do if you were a guy wanting revenge for being shot.

The problem is that the action scenes are sadly the best part of the entire movie. The rest of the movie is rather slow. We have old, fat Martin Lawrence holding babies, sitting in recliners, caring for the injured in hospital, attending weddings and funerals, and... that's about it. Add a few scenes where one tries to convince the other to get involved in solving the crimes, and that's about it.

While the final fight isn't too bad in terms of action, its still another example of unbelievable action filler. The final end scene is even less likely.

While there are occasional patches of the originals buddy charisma, they are few and far between, and the whole thing comes off as a movie that shouldn't have been made in the first place.

You can tell its not that good at all, simply by the number of 10/10 ratings you see on sites like this and others, always a sign that they spent more money on buying votes and gaming systems than on the script.

Save your money.