Bad Boys: Ride or Dieright on target
After realizing Bad boys for lifethe third work of the saga begun by Michael Bay in 1995, directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are once again at work to Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The stakes are high. They succeeded in this new work of the detective saga and, indirectly, also in Will Smith’s return to the limelight afterwards the story of the slap at the 2022 Oscars?
The answer is positive. This new Bad Boys film brings back into action the duo of Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence), the two legendary drug cops of the Miami police force, and does so with a sense of balance and measure perfectly adequate to never get bored, to be able to laugh with them and even get a little excited.
In this new film, Mike and Marcus suffer the harsh blow of past years. On the one hand, a happy event, Mike breaks with his past as a seducer and gets married. But during this celebration, Marcus suffers a heart attack. Now they are older and therefore have a growing past that they will turn to for protection.
In fact, inside Bad Boys: Ride or Die, is the reputation and legacy of their former captain Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano), murdered in the previous work by Armando, the son Mike later discovered. Here, criminals from a powerful mafia organization use him to blame him for their actions. Refusing to allow his name to be dragged through the mud and criminals to escape justice, Mike and Marcus set out on a mission to expose this conspiracy. To achieve their goals, they will have to act clandestinely, reunite with colleagues Kelly (Vanessa Hudgens) and Dorn (Alexander Ludwig) and trust Armando who has valuable information…
Humor and tenderness
Bad Boys: Ride or Die reset schoolboy humor and the thoughtful duo of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. With Marcus all the more unusual as he suffers a vigorous backlash from his heart attack, it’s easy and obvious to offer a new cameo to Michael Bay as a harried pilot. And with Mike always attracting, despite himself, violence, I repeat it in the introduction the cult scene of “Skittles” of the first film seems to be the wink that absolutely needed to be given.
This is what emerges from the film, and it is precious: a comfort, a trust, the desire to destroy everything but in a shot that doesn’t move. Bad Boys: Ride or Die it never leaves your comfort zone, and that’s a good thing. Finally, if she abandons her comfort a little more, it is when she develops the fatigue and evolution of her characters.
Marcus is initially unwell, he is a young grandfather and wants to retire more than ever. Mike experiences anxiety attacks that occur at the worst times. These anxiety attacks from Mike resonate twice. A first, because the two characters exchange each other: after the heart attack, Marcus believes he is invincible and pushes for action “Mike style”, when Mike begins to doubt and suffer. The second, because after the slap given to Chris Rock, Will Smith will no longer be able to appear.infallible“…He needs help and he accepts it.
Is it time to deliver? Not yet, but this moment is approaching, with a blockbuster action sequence dedicated to Reggie (Dennis Greene), Marcus’ son-in-law and elite soldier who brilliantly participates in the joyous action of this film by defending those close to Mike . and Marco.
Why reinvent your recipe when it still works? In the direct continuity, in substance and form, of Bad boys for life, Bad boys ride or die plays with its historical themes, such as those of friendship, family, romance, betrayal, the film is very generous, perhaps even too generous in its relatively short duration for a blockbuster, suggesting here and there past and current subplots, through cameo (DJ Khaled, Tiffany Haddish) or introducing a new character, Howard’s daughter played by Rhea Seehorn.
Bad guys understood everything
Would the students outperform the teacher? No, because Michael Bay has proven himself in this type of cinema Ambulance who has always been the genius of the blockbuster, the accomplished spectacle that puts a big smile on your face for a long time. But the directors removed the drones and inserted them shootout sequences in first person shooterand even redo Michael Bay’s signature shot. Without imitating, they inspire each other, and an intense pleasure exudes from the film’s sincere effort to have fun.
It explodes and sweeps away a colorful and sunny Florida like never before, races in a Porsche and ends well – despite the intervention of a giant albino alligator -, and all this without forcing. What else ? There is no need to save the world, there is no need to send a political message. Likewise, the development of the Bad Boys family doesn’t feel forced either. While some franchises have made “family” one of their conditions sine qua nonsometimes more marketing however dramatic, here this dimension develops naturally.
Proof that, provided this relaxation and relaxation, the sincere blockbuster action film has a bright future ahead of it. We ask for more.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die by Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah, in theaters from June 5, 2024. Above is the trailer. Find all our trailers here.
Source: Cine Serie
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