Bad Boys for Life (IMAX)

Ride Together. Die Together.

In the final outing for the comical buddy cops, the twosome have to confront new issues, including career changes and mid-life crises, as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless and vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel. This film is releasing in 2D, IMAX and 4DX. This is the IMAX version.

124 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Drug abuse).
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Mixed emotions.

Credits

Cast	Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Joe Pantoliano, Charles Melton, Paola Nuñez, Kate del Castillo
Director	Bilall Fallah
Screenplay	Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan, using characters by George Gallo
Music	Lorne Balfe
Cinematography	Robrecht Heyvaert
Editing	Dan Lebental, Peter McNulty
Made in	2020
Produced by	2.0 Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Overbrook Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action, comedy, crime
Language	None (sic)
Nudity	None
Sex	None (sic)
Violence	None (sic)
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
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USA MPAA rating

R: Restricted	Rated:R for strong violence and language throughout, sexuality, nudity and drug content
Runtime	123
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

British Board of Film Classification rating

15: Suitable for 15 years and older	Strong bloody violence, Language, Crude humour
Runtime	124
British version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 16 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Metacritic.com 44 critics	12
Rottentomatoes critics 202 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Loaded up with action and a double helping of leading-man charisma, Bad Boys for Life reinvigorates this long-dormant franchise by playing squarely to its strengths.	15
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	11
CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Violent, crude buddy-cop “threequel” is chaotic, tired.	5
ScreenIt Jim Judy You’d hope that with all of the intervening years some amazing plot could have been devised to take full advantage of the two leads’ chemistry, but there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before.	9
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 51 users	15
Rottentomatoes users 19215 users	19
Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter	19
IMDB 13496 Netizens	15
The Movie DB Community	13
Average .. 66%	13