Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Published January 18, 2025

Film info

Title Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Directors Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Year 2024
Run time 1hr 55m
Genres Crime, Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Action
Tagline Miami's finest are now its most wanted

When their late police captain gets linked to drug cartels, wisecracking Miami cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett embark on a dangerous mission to clear his name.

Live blog

Time	Comment
2:24	What kind of a credit is Khaled (DJ Khaled) Khaled?
6:27	Can’t believe Ioan Gruffudd is in this, so weird!
16:05	The posh cars are making me want to watch Fast & Furious again.
20:07	$1000 for some Skittles, I’d take that deal.
28:55	Michael Bay cameo!
40:19	Death by kettle bell, you don’t want that.
49:42	“Everybody unflex, on three.”
57:02	Trying to come up with a Reba song is hilarious.
1:03:00	It’s turned into John Wick just a bit.
1:04:15	I didn’t know windscreen wiper fluid was flammable. Omg.
1:14:44	Wow, I want a marine in my house.
1:26:17	Who wants to go to an alligator park?
1:40:29	Even I was cheering for Ioan to get eaten.

Thoughts

I’ve loved the previous Bad Boys movies, they’re just fun buddy comedies, with banter and hijinks between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and some cop action along the way. Great stuff. This one looked like it was going to go down the same route and it had all the ingredients to make a great movie but somewhere it just fell off the rails and never quite got back on them.

There were some inventive camera/VFX trick shots, and you can see the action sequences had had a lot of thought put in to them but it was so overdone and didn’t help, almost hindered. The one where suddenly we’re in a first person shooter game made no sense and I couldn’t tell what was happening. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the banter and the fun moments (Reggie single-handedly putting down 15 bad guys and grudgingly earning some respect), this wouldn’t have been watchable.

Rating: 2 / 5