“Bad Boys For Life” is the third ‘Bad Boys’ installment of this now two-decade franchise. I haven’t liked a single movie, no not even 1995 original, which was filled with misogynist and homophobic rhetoric that even felt overboard for the ‘90s.
Michael Bay is no longer director of this series, Adil El Arbi, and Bilall Fallah replace Bay at the helm of this third movie — which is being released in the dead of winter, January 17th, 2020.
I’ve repeated this before, but Will Smith, who’s been in a never-ending funk now for the better part of 20 years, is not a bad actor. He proved it in “Six Degrees of Separation,” “Enemy of the State,” “Ali,” and, even though the film itself stunk of unearned sentimentality, his Oscar/nominated turn in “The Pursuit of Happyness.”