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These Bad Boys Sequels Need More Gonzo Action Spectacle
In Ride or Die, Martin Lawrence does a nice job vigorously slapping Will Smith a few times. But where are the over-the-top set pieces?
Playboy Mike might be getting married finally, but his past keeps catching up to him; Marcus, the family man, keeps winding up in situations that confirm he’s getting too old for this shit, as Danny Glover used to say in the Lethal Weapon series, a clear influence on these movies. We even get a fun fight sequence showcasing the skills of Reggie (Dennis Greene), Marcus’s U.S. Marine son-in-law, whose awkward teen self was the victim of one of Bad Boys II ’s most immortal bits. Directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (who also directed the previous entry) try to jazz things up visually, with long-take action sequences in which the camera flies around dizzyingly, jumping between characters, vaulting across spaces, and rotating in rapid-fire fashion from first-person-shooter perspectives to intense handheld close-ups.
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