Bad Boys for Life

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Movie
German title Bad Boys for Life
Original title Bad Boys for Life
Country of production United States
original language English
Spanish
Publishing year 2020
length 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Adil El Arbi ,
Bilall Fallah
script Joe Carnahan ,
Chris Bremner ,
Peter Craig
production Jerry Bruckheimer ,
Will Smith
music Lorne Balfe
camera Robrecht Heyvaert
cut Dan Lebental
Peter McNulty
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Bad Boys II

Bad Boys for Life (coll .: Bad Boys III ) an American action film directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and a sequel to Michael Bay's Bad Boys - Harte Jungs (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003) . Will Smith and Martin Lawrence again star in the lead roles . The film was released in German cinemas on January 16, 2020 and the following day in American cinemas.

action

Isabel, the life-sentenced widow of the boss of the Aretas cartel , nicknamed “La bruja” (the witch), breaks out of a maximum security prison in Mexico with the help of her son Armando. They both swear vengeance and together open the hunt for the key figures who were responsible for breaking up the cartel. Among them is Detective Mike Lowrey, who was an undercover agent who contributed significantly to Isabel's arrest. Armando finds his father's secret hiding place with several million US dollars and hires the gangster Zway-Lo and his gang for this mission. At the party for the birth of Marcus Burnett's first grandson, who now wants to quit his job in order to devote himself entirely to his family, Armando Mike seriously injured with several shots, despite his mother's order to be the last to kill him.

Mike falls into a coma after a long operation, but survives and regenerates practically completely after six months. Meanwhile, Armando kills all the targets one after the other. When Isabel learns of Mike's recovery, she puts Armando back on him. This kills Captain Conrad Howard, but has no clear line of fire on Mike. After this tragedy, Marcus is still waiting to retire and supports his partner one last time in their search for the murderer . Equipped with state of the art Advanced Miami Metro Operations (AMMO) unit, consisting of the three young tech - specialists Dorn, Kelly and Rafe, and directed by Mike's former colleague Rita them helps the accountant of organized crime Find. Through him you establish a connection to Zway-Lo. He was arrested at his birthday party, but was able to escape with the help of his gang. After a wild chase from downtown Miami to the harbor, the two can catch him again. Suddenly a helicopter appears with Armando on board and he shoots Zway-Lo to get to Mike. However, he can save himself by jumping into the water.

The AMMO unit is then disbanded. Mike finds out that Isabel, with whom he had a brief affair before she was arrested, is behind the attacks on him. The terrible truth comes to light: Armando is his son. Mike wants to settle accounts with them once and for all and flies to Mexico with Marcus. There he makes an appointment with Isabel, who sets a trap for him and Marcus. But the disbanded AMMO team comes incognito and provides them with active support during the exchange of fire. Isabel dies trying to kill Mike and Armando survives seriously injured. While waiting for his conviction back in Florida , Mike offers to serve the maximum hypothetical sentence with a job for the police.

background

In January 2019 started with a budget of 90 million US dollar production for Bad Boys for Life , again with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as the quick-witted duo in the lead roles. The first trailer was released on September 4, 2019, the second on November 5, 2019.

The director of the first two parts, Michael Bay , has a brief appearance as the wedding presenter.

reception

Gross profit

With a budget of US $ 90 million, worldwide revenue from cinema screenings is US $ 419.1 million, of which the film grossed 204.4 million in North America alone. This puts it in first place (as of August 8, 2020) among the financially most successful films of 2020 . In Germany, the film recorded a total of 1,785,278 moviegoers, through which it was able to generate 16.69 million euros and is number 1 in the 2020 annual charts .

Reviews

The critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website rated the film 77 percent positive.

“A continuation of a successful action film series enriched with long-serving and fresh characters, which endeavors to achieve a punchy mix of humor and violence. In exaggerating the action, however, he sometimes overshoots the mark. "

- Film service

“[...] in addition to hardness and coolness, the series is also characterized by its wit - and the young Belgian talents get it even better than Bay in the not only partially problematic direct predecessor. “Bad Boys For Life” is an action thriller without any homophobic, childish or otherwise questionable interludes, in which there are surprisingly great emotions and groovy blasts as well as all kinds of laughs. Because even if not every gag might spark, most of them work just because of the still excellent chemistry between Smith and Lawrence. "

- movie starts

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and was directed by Sven Hasper on behalf of Berliner Synchron .

role actor Voice actor
Detective Michael "Mike" Lowrey Will Smith Jan Odle
Detective Marcus Burnett Martin Lawrence Dietmar miracle
Captain C. Howard Joe Pantoliano Wolfgang number
Kelly Vanessa Hudgens Marieke Oeffinger
mandrel Alexander Ludwig Jaron Lowenberg
Theresa Burnett Theresa Randle Juana von Jascheroff
Rafe Charles Melton Florian Clyde
Rita Paola Nuñez Sonja Spuhl
Isabel Aretas Kate del Castillo Carolina Vera
Megan Burnett Bianca Bethune Lisa May-Mitsching
Armando Aretas Jacob Scipio Nicolás Artajo
Booker Grassie Rory Markham Peter Lontzek
Carver Remy Ivo Nandi Michael Iwannek
Javier Carlos Guerrero Nicolas Buitrago
Jenkins Happy Anderson Sven Brieger
Lee Taglin Massi Furlan Thomas Schmuckert
Manny DJ Khaled Leonhard Mahlich

continuation

The fourth part of the cinema series is already in preproduction.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bad Boys for Life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 196531 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Bad Boys for Life in the film directory celeo.de, accessed on January 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Bad Boys for Life Begins Production, Will Smith Shares New Photo . MovieWeb, January 7, 2019
  4. ↑ Anna Tingley: 'Bad Boys for Life' Trailer: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Lay Down the Law . September 4, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Sandy Schaefer: Bad Boys for Life Trailer # 2: Mike & Marcus Are Back For One Last Ride . In: Screen Rant . November 5, 2019. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  6. ↑ Bad Boys for Life In: Box Office Mojo , accessed July 20, 2020.
  7. ↑ 2020 Worldwide Box Office. In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2020 In: insidekino.de, accessed on July 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ Bad Boys for Life (2020). Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Bad Boys for Life - short review on Filmdienst. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Bad Boys for Life - Criticism on film releases. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Bad Boys for Life in the German dubbing index
  13. ↑ Dave McNary: 'Bad Boys 4' in the Works at Sony Pictures. In: Variety.com. January 17, 2020, accessed on June 15, 2020 .