Review: Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
It's better than most retreads.
You do remember correctly. There was a Bad Boys film in early 2020 called Bad Boys for Life, which makes Bad Boys: Ride or Die, now in theaters, the franchise’s fourth installment. But whatever hype that January dump did seem to drum up, the pandemic made sure it was just about squashed. That movie was plenty successful, grossing over $400 million internationally, but just like all 2020 cinema, it’s been more or less forgotten culturally.
As a result, Bad Boys: Ride or Die retreads a lot of the same territory, but is no less fun or wild than any other Bad Boys film. Whether we want it or not, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have still got it.