Review: Bad Boys: Ride or Die mines the bad-boy bestie dynamic

Yep, Bad Boys is back. Will Smith hits the big screen instead of Chris Rock this weekend on a mission to make Hollywood forget 'The Slap' and remind them he's still a moneymaker.

Shoot me now, but I think maybe I skipped the last few Bad Boys so I was kinda lost here and there with this fourth instalment, but honestly I'm just here for the gunfights, the fistfights, the car chases, the bad guys and OK I'm just gonna say it the Bad Boys - and for the most part it gave me some of that.

The story, if you care, is another case of Lowry (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) on a Miami rampage chasing perps who are chasing them as a murky case of corruption swirls around their former boss Captain Howard.

Things will get personal, Burnett will see the light after a near-death experience and as the body count mounts the usual bad-boy bestie dynamic will be mined for maximum big-screen LOLs.

In what's being called a 'bummer summer' at the US box office, Hollywood will forgive just about anything and if Will Smith can win his fans back with bums on seats then this Bad Boy might find himself back in the good books.

Three-and-a-half stars.

Yep, Bad Boys is back. Will Smith hits the big screen instead of Chris Rock this weekend on a mission to make Hollywood forget 'The Slap' and remind them he's still a moneymaker.

Shoot me now, but I think maybe I skipped the last few Bad Boys so I was kinda lost here and there with this fourth instalment, but honestly I'm just here for the gunfights, the fistfights, the car chases, the bad guys and OK I'm just gonna say it the Bad Boys - and for the most part it gave me some of that.

The story, if you care, is another case of Lowry (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) on a Miami rampage chasing perps who are chasing them as a murky case of corruption swirls around their former boss Captain Howard.

Things will get personal, Burnett will see the light after a near-death experience and as the body count mounts the usual bad-boy bestie dynamic will be mined for maximum big-screen LOLs.

In what's being called a 'bummer summer' at the US box office, Hollywood will forgive just about anything and if Will Smith can win his fans back with bums on seats then this Bad Boy might find himself back in the good books.

Three-and-a-half stars.

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