Bad Boys for Life 4K 2020 Ultra HD 2160p

Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowry (Will Smith) triumphantly return to the cinema - these guys are still ready to set the heat for dangerous criminals. Savvy, sense of humor and other non-standard methods help them in this. The producer of the picture is Jerry Bruckheimer, who is responsible for creating the original paintings, so the audience is waiting for a tape that pays tribute to the past.

Bad Boys for Life 4K Review
Detective Markus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) becomes a grandfather and for the first time ever seriously decides to leave the police service. Which, of course, is not very happy about his long-time partner Mike Lowry (Will Smith), who refuses to accept his old age and chases the criminal with the same agility as twenty years ago. True, at some point, his past merits turn against him - Miku is cruelly avenged by the son of the drug lord who he planted, shoots at a detective, and only by a miracle does not kill him. Now Mike and Marcus will have to unite to find the bastard and figure out their own past.

Classical action heroes are not easy to live in our time - new franchises now appear almost never, but the old ones are stubbornly shoveling, even if they stopped generating revenue even a dozen years ago (look at “Terminator”). The old people will not be allowed to rest, they are picked up from the rocking chair over and over, so that for the last time - well, now for sure the last - send a couple of impudent faces. Previously, their age was at least hidden behind a make-up or ageless texture, now filmmakers do not even try to hide the decay of their heroes: John Rambo and T-800 are aging peacefully on a quiet farm, Jean-Luc Picard grows grapes, Vin Diesel in the next part of Fast and Furious probably will ride a lawn mower. One Tom Cruise flies, as if nothing had happened, but he will soon have to change the parachute to pressure pills.

The aesthetics of decrepitude and sand poured from heroes in action games, of course, is not a new invention. Danny Glover was too old for this shit back in '87, and Martin Brest sent his old men to “leave beautifully” ten years before. But it’s still curious to see how franchises come to this path, which began completely different and seem to be morally old (outdated?) With their characters. It is unlikely that anyone would have thought that the “Bad Guys” - adrenaline baddy movie from the explosives and miniskirts master Michael Bay — will be closer to the Old Man with a Gun in 25 years than to the Sundance Kid.

Family, children, another “I'll retire” and “come on for the last time” - “Bad guys forever” rush through the kiloton of patterns, consciously and absolutely intentionally. They exaggerate every cliched cliché to such an extent that, in general, it ceases to be a cliché: it's not about the dull winks of the Hobbs and Shaw or the frantic unassembled deconstruction of The Last Jedi. Here the plot unfolds according to the rules of the Brazilian soap opera, because it is a genre that is intuitively associated with old age, and the conflict of youth and old age (in this film, by the way, suddenly appears as a relative of Gemini, another nostalgic action movie with Will Smith) results only in a Boomer remix title song. “Bad guys forever”, remaining entirely within the framework of the declared trail, obviously look back at the mistakes of their predecessors and often beat where you least expect it - reminders of age are wittyly inserted right in the middle of aggressive action scenes, and the climax tragedy happens soberingly suddenly.

Even the stylistic decision, whether consciously or not, reflects this “obsolescence” of the franchise. Like the hero of Smith, desperately young at his 50s and painting a beard with a funny name, the film itself imitates Michael Bay (here, by the way, he suddenly appears in a funny cameo) with his overexposed florist, a rotating camera and foreshortening shooting from the floor. But he does it as if at half power, reducing Bay's redundancy to a perfectly acceptable, restrained, starving picture in the sun. Like its heroes, the franchise has lost its agility, but it still aggressively mounts frames through dynamic panoramas - and you only want to praise its determination. Moreover, unlike many of his colleagues, the “Bad Guys” in the end do not even pretend that their “last” time was really the last.