Bad Boys: Until Death – 5 points
Bad Boys: Ride or DieUnited States, 2024
Address: Edil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
Script: Chris Bremmer and Will Beall
Duration: 115 minutes
Performers: William Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Eric Dane, Alexander Ludwig, Ioan Gruffudd, Tiffany Haddish, John Pantoliano.
Premiere in rooms.
No matter how many years you attend flight school, it will always be just as difficult as the pig learns to fly. After three previous installments, the first of which was released 30 years ago, the franchise Bad Boys returns to theaters, but still cannot offer much more than the same overheated cinema, of scarce ideas and in disposable packaging. Although it would be more appropriate to say recyclable, taking into account the high rate of recidivism. With that alone, the first three films in the saga have already grossed more than 840 million dollars, sum that is largely explained by a single name: that of Will Smith, in charge of one of the two leading roles.
His presence, but above all the chemistry that he continues to share on screen with his teammate Martin Lawrence, seems to be the only argument to explain this otherwise inexplicable version of the eternal return. Typical buddy moviea formula that proved to work very well within the most commercial vein of the genre police, Bad Boys: Until Deathwhich is the title of this fourth installment, rests on the work of Smith and Lawrence, ignoring the drama. Of course there is a story, but for the fourth time the content is once again the least important thing compared to the priority of adapting to an already structured structure. mechanized: comedy step + action scene + emotional conflict, and back to the beginning. Like this until the end.
The thing is that Bad Boys: Until Death It does not manage to be a particularly dazzling action film, although in some scenes an acceptable handling of movement and space can be perceived. As a comedy it turns out even less inspired, layered once again in a sense of humor that can’t help but smell stale, despite efforts to adapt to life in times of political correctness. And as for the drama, the thing borders on soap operaas if it were a soap opera with anabolics, where conflicts between parents and children develop in the downtime between beatings and shootings, and even during.
Of course, if you go to the cinema well prepared and with your expectations under control, the new Bad Boys It may even be a valid entertainment. To facilitate that experience, here are three tips: do not question the idea of justice that the film proposes; be aware that the suspension of disbelief In this case it also implies accepting a conservative point of view of reality; recognize that some old routines of physical humor can continue to work to infinity and beyond, no matter how many times you have laughed at the same thing before. Of course: don’t ask the pig to take flight.
