by Alejandro Aaron, Student Reporter
Bad Boys for Life hit the theaters 17 years after Bad Boys 2 was released and had many people anxious to get into the theater seats.
The main reason people were excited to see this movie was because it was a well-known comedy action movie about a partnership between two police officers. They have a really close relationship that goes all the way back to the high school days
The comedy movie lived up to all the high expectations. The storyline was consistent and was in line with the previous movies. Although the Bad Boys fans thought the movie was long overdue, we were pretty satisfied with the outcome.
Marcus had another little baby which is a newborn during the movie. They brought Reggie from Bad Boys 2 back, who had a scene when he showed up to take Marcus’s oldest child out on a date. The scene from Bad Boys 2 was one of the main funny comedic scenes in that movie. Reggie made a return in the new Bad Boys for Life as not the date, but the Husband of Marcus’s oldest daughter.
With Marcus’s family growing, Detective Mike Lowry’s was as well. While racing on the sidewalk with Marcus, as a bet to see if Marcus would retire or not, Lowry was shot multiple times by the hit-man of a woman whose husband was killed by Lowry.
During Lowry’s recovery and healing process, Marcus ended up retiring. Lowry recovered and begged Marcus to come out of retirement to find out who shot him. Marcus refused for a while but ended up giving in.
As they were searching for the shooter, Lowry does some sneaky research and finds out that the shooter is the son of a woman he used to be in love with before he became a detective. Lowry checks the birth date to see if he could possibly be his son and he turns out to be Lowry’s son he never knew about.
The movie did throw you for a couple loops as they went deeper into the past of the story before the first movie was even made.
The action aspect of the movie grabbed your attention. They balanced the action and comedy well like they did in the previous movies. There was no drop off from the movies they made previously. A little bit more of their background was brought to light and opened another aspect to the movie which made it interesting on top of the non-stop silliness and action.
There were some new cast members added into the story who were well picked for the roles they played. Overall, it was a good movie and did really well matching it up with the past movies.