'Bad Boys For Life,' isn’t simply more of the same, it’s a maturation of Bayhem, and a gold standard within the current resurgence of legacy sequels BadBoysForLife
, force Mike and Marcus to grapple with hard questions and tough decisions about what it means to stick by someone while also wanting more for them. The difference between the two men doesn’t simply come down to the “wunza” subgenre coined by Roger Ebert, i.e. one’s a white guy and one’s a black guy, or one’s street smart and one’s a company man. Rather their ideological differences, while often played for humor, come down to a shared fear of death.
In terms of passing the buck off to new characters, there’s a moment of concern in which a team of young, whipsmart, tech based police officers, dubbed AMMO, are introduced. History tells us that we’re in for an annoying brood that will take away from the main characters, and create needless confrontation of old and new school tactics.
“Do you want your legacy to be muscle shirts and body counts?” Marcus asks Mike. And it’s a question the filmmakers are also asking about this entry’s place in the franchise. It’s a question that Michael Bay, love him or hate him, would not have been able to ask of himself or his characters. Action movies, particularly those born of Bay’s style, thrive on the collateral damage that’s left behind. Cars, buildings, bodies, codes.
It would’ve been easy, entertaining even, to simply have Mike and Marcus go through this latest sequel unchanged, with a handful of “too old for this shit” jokes, and Captain Howard’s increasing frustration, being the only evidence of the passage of time. There are some of those jokes, and they’re damn funny, but Mike and Marcus are both changed through the process of aging and this is what elevates the film beyond being simply entertaining.
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