Bad Boys For Life is a film that is going to be adored by the original fans of this franchise. The magic, the style and the charisma all returns with a storyline that goes above and beyond.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2024

Despite the lack of Bayhem, Bad Boys For Life’s stronger focus on characters and humor help make this sequel feel like a needed evolution for the series.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 12, 2024

An action comedy that often becomes dull and redundant as Smith and Lawrence, despite their chemistry, frequent predictable places to catch criminals in the city of Miami. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 12, 2024

It keeps the bickering leading duo in a state of arrested development, like they were doomed to eternally chase a youth that has long since passed them by.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 5, 2024

The last shot feels like a call to Hollywood to make more sequels, which sort of ruins the whole "Bad Boys one last time" tagline…

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2023

... Maintains a pace that makes it fly by and offers recurring moments of humor. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 27, 2023

“Bad Boys for Life” teases itself as the final chapter, the end of the trilogy, “one last time“. Don’t believe it, especially in today’s franchised obsessed movie culture.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

...a fairly mixed bag that at least delivers bang for your buck even if it doesn't deliver much sense...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2021

Go have a good time... you've got some good chase scenes.

| Sep 15, 2021

Turning one of the most spectacular expressions of a filmmaker's personality, however toxic, into this generic IP-extending product is still a shame.

| Jun 4, 2021

Smith is Smith, Lawrence is Lawrence, and they both look really cool when they shoot people, which is exactly what you want out of a Bad Boys movie. Unless, of course, you want a load of rampant misogyny as well, in which case, go watch Bad Boys II again.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2021

The Bad Boys are back for round three. They're not quite so bad, and they're not remotely boys at this point, but they're still good for a few laughs and gunshot wounds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2021

Half of the draw is the action, and the filmmakers amp things up nicely. The other half of the draw is the chemistry between Smith and Lawrence, and it remains great.

| Feb 17, 2021

The wild action scenes that follow tend toward orgiastic videogame style shootouts, particularly the climatic battle, but succeed because the CGI is kept to a minimum and the gunshots are punctuated by Lawrence's quips.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 30, 2021

This one carries forward the legacy of the Bad Boys franchise and the magic of its leading men ensure that third time's a charm...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 27, 2021

There's little chance that Bad Boys for Life is your favorite in the franchise, but in a year that needed the safety of a warm blanket, this trilogy-capper provided.

| Jan 26, 2021

A really really great movie [with] fantastic action set-pieces... great humour... heart... soul... [and] story

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2020

Even if they are middle-aged, Smith and Lawrence still fly through the air, in slow motion, shooting two guns at once, and drive a Porsche 911 recklessly through the "this time, it's personal" plot of the film.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Bad Boys for Life adds emotional gravitas that wasn't seen in the previous Bad Boys films.

| Jul 13, 2020

The true MVP here is the screenplay from Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, and Joe Carnahan that elevates this latest guilty pleasure delight far above retreat territory.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 5, 2020