Movie Review - Bad Boys For Life

Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
Genre: Action/ Crime/ Comedy
Runtime: 124 minutes
Year: 2020
Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Joe Pantoliano, Theresa Randle

Description: Miami detectives Mike Lowry (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) must face off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak wngeful havoc on their city.

Review: “Bad Boys For Life” opens like a “Bad Boys” film should. We are in for a wild ride.
The goal of the wild ride is not the heavily armed drug or mafia gang you might expect. No, twenty-five years after their first bravura piece, the young cops became experiences detectives. When Marcus’ hold his new-born grandson for the first time, he concludes it’s time to retire from the job. Mike is furious and refuses to take this ending seriously. Without a wife and family himself, running after criminals is more than work for Mike. It’s his life.
When Mike is shot by an escaped drug lord, Mike is determined to get him. And he needs Marcus right next to him to do so.
I think it’s a thing these days to create a sequel to a popular film, many years later. “Bad Boys For Life” is one of those films. And Will Smith surely hasn’t lost his touch yet. He is still fit enough and convincing enough to portray Mike Lowry. But time hasn’t been kind on Martin Lawrence and it shows. The interaction between the two is still strong though.
Is it a sequel we needed? No, not really. But it was very entertaining. Which is exactly what you need from a movie like “Bad Boys For Life”.

Rating: 3 / 5

10s Movie Review - The Final Girls

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Thriller
Runtime: 88 minutes
Year: 2015
Starring: Taisa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Adam Devine, Alia Shawkat

Description: A young woman (Taisa Farmiga) grieving the loss of her mother (Malin Akerman), a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

Review: “The Final Girls” is a horror comedy that mocks slasher films, but not in the ridiculous way “Scary Movie” did. And it’s not as predictable as most slashers. The story movie within the movie isn’t original, but the story of this film is. And it’s very entertaining.
The term ‘final girl’ stands fort he girl that makes it to the end of a horror movie and manages to kill the person hunting her. Max is a teenage girl still mourning the dead of her mother Amanda, who was a 1980s actress who got her fame due to a bad slasher flick. Max and her friends go to a showing of Amanda’s most known film “Camp Blood”. When a fire breaks out in the theater, they are somehow sucked into the movie, having to live it themselves.
The killer, Billy, is a bad copy of Jason Voorhees. The premise is a bit like “Last Action Hero” and “Groundhog Day”. And it all somehow works, because it’s a super fun watch. With excellent leads Taisa Farmiga (Vera Farmiga’s younger sister) and Malin Akerman, it does even a bit better in the acting department then a lot of slasher films.
I really enjoyed this slasher, it’s really funny and it mocks the genre in a very original way. Without ever becoming over-the-top.

Rating: 3,5/ 5