It’s all part of a plan to murder the people who put Isabel in prison and her husband in the grave. Meanwhile, something is brewing in Mexico, and I literally mean “brewing.” A self-proclaimed bruja named Isabel Aretas ( Kate del Castillo) executes a gruesome, “Silence of the Lambs”-style prison breakout, reuniting with her son Armando (Jacob Scipio). In the words of a far better buddy cop picture, Marcus realizes he’s “getting too old for this shit.” Mike tries to change his mind. Unlike his hothead partner, he has a wife and family and wants to spend more time with them rather than the hundreds of criminals he’s been shooting. Now a grandfather-or a “Pop-Pop” as he calls himself-Marcus re-evaluates his law enforcement career. Turns out all the stunts are in service to getting Marcus to the hospital for the birth of his granddaughter. The film opens with that speeding Porsche sequence from the trailer, with Mike and Marcus employing their usual disregard for innocents while engaging in what looks like the pursuit of the latest Miami criminal. When the climax starts laying telenovela-level melodrama atop the explosions and gunplay while openly cannibalizing ideas from “ Gemini Man,” I had to admire the audacity of those choices. I didn’t buy this “kinder, gentler Bad Boys” shtick for one minute, but that doesn’t mean I was bored. This time, Detectives Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowery (Will Smith) are more mindful of how much collateral damage they do, even if the latter must be constantly reminded to temper his carnage. Unlike the original, this one finds some depth in its female characters unlike the second, it’s not an exceptionally vile mishmash of “Freebie and the Bean” and “ Scarface” whose running time felt approximately 600 hours long. It is the best of the three films, offering in some odd ways a corrective to the prior installments. Surprisingly, “Bad Boys For Life” is nowhere near as bad as its opening day schedule would indicate.
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