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Speaker 1: Great the flick with ben o'she Hi.

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Speaker 2: Ben Hello, how you doing this? Is? What number is

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Speaker 2: this for? Isn't it? Who knows what the next lyrics

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Speaker 2: are after this down? It's yes, Bad Boys four, And

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Speaker 2: now many people would be thinking, why do we need

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Speaker 2: a Bad Boys four? You might also be thinking, was

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Speaker 2: there a Bad Boys three? I don't even remember Bad

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Speaker 2: Boys two. Bad Boys one is the one that we

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Speaker 2: all remember. The first two films were directed by Michael Bay,

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Speaker 2: and they were, you know, about as Michael Bay as

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Speaker 2: it can get. They're like slow mo shots and you know,

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Speaker 2: sun drenched vistas of Miami girls in pretty scanty bikinis

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Speaker 2: on rollerblades, big action sequences, lots of one liners, you know.

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Speaker 2: And the first one was was kind of a classic.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't necessarily a great movie, but he got played

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Speaker 2: so many times on TV, like every Friday night, it seemed.

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Speaker 2: It was on for many many years. The second one

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Speaker 2: not that good at all. But the third one came

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Speaker 2: along and kind of in twenty twenty, and it kind

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Speaker 2: of reinvigorated the franchise because Michael Bay was gone. He moved,

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Speaker 2: he moved away on to other things, and the directing

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Speaker 2: duo was this pair of black American directors, a Deal

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Speaker 2: and Balal, and they brought such a distinctive aesthetic to

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Speaker 2: the film. It was so different to the previous two films.

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Speaker 2: It was a bit more edgy, and these guys are

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Speaker 2: back to do bad boys for Ride or Die, and

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Speaker 2: it's that same aesthetic. And I will say some people

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Speaker 2: might find it a bit unpleasant because you know, the

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Speaker 2: camera is on weird angles, really unusual camera position pasure

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Speaker 2: yea and yeah, so it's like quite awkward to watch sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it feels like you're in a like a first

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Speaker 2: person like you to computer game, So it's that kind

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Speaker 2: of a vibe, like you sort of the camera is

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Speaker 2: sort of on top of you know, like sort of

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Speaker 2: Will Smith's gun barrels as he's running around, and so

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Speaker 2: it's quite hectic from that perspective. The action sequences are

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Speaker 2: a little bit frenetic to follow along with. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I think that if we respect some directors for having

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Speaker 2: a very distinctive style and go, well, that's just their style,

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Speaker 2: so we'll forgive them that. I think you've got to

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Speaker 2: do the same thing with a Deal and blah, you

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Speaker 2: kind of got to go this is how they make movies.

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Speaker 2: You either like it or you don't, but you don't

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Speaker 2: punish them for it. And so it again sees, you know,

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Speaker 2: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as Mike Lowry and Marcus,

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Speaker 2: two cops in Miami who will go to any length

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Speaker 2: to bring down the bad guys. They don't care how

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Speaker 2: many buildings they have to blow up, car crashes they

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Speaker 2: have to have. You know, the damage bill to the

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Speaker 2: city of Miami must be in the billions of dollars

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Speaker 2: at this point. And now the plot, you know, you

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Speaker 2: can make your mind up whether this makes any sense

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Speaker 2: or not. So someone mysterious person is trying to frame

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Speaker 2: their police captain, their beloved police captain. But the problem

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Speaker 2: is he died in the last movie, so they're posthumously

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Speaker 2: trying to frame the dead police captain.

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Speaker 1: By it doesn't quite grab the emotions as much as

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Speaker 1: when he's alive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but they want to they want to clear

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Speaker 2: his reputation even though but still it's not the not

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Speaker 2: the best motivation to go on this like rampage, And

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Speaker 2: so it unfolds from there, and the plot itself, you know,

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Speaker 2: is it doesn't always make too much sense, Like if

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Speaker 2: you can go along with it. And then I guess

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Speaker 2: you had question whether you know how you feel about

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Speaker 2: Will Smith these days, right, because of course at one

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Speaker 2: point you go, wow, he'd make movies forever. His appeal

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Speaker 2: is ever green. He's not necessarily making the best movies,

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Speaker 2: but he's very watchable. But then there was the Oscars

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Speaker 2: slap on Chris Rock and I think that changed a

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Speaker 2: lot of people's opinions. So you might be happy to

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Speaker 2: know he gets slapped in this movie.

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Speaker 1: This is what we heard. And the critics were very

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Speaker 1: mixed on the scene, some saying, oh, this could be

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Speaker 1: the you know the thing in another saying no, a

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Speaker 1: tasteless nod in the hope that he could be his.

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Speaker 2: Head team slapped a bunch of times. I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think there was. I don't

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Speaker 2: think that really you could even relate the two like,

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Speaker 2: there was no obvious reference to the Oscars, and it

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Speaker 2: kind of was so in keeping with the rest of

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Speaker 2: the film. I don't even know if it was deliberate.

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Speaker 1: Apparently I got a very audible reaction in the some

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Speaker 1: of the some.

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Speaker 2: Of the test screen. Yeah, I doubt it, And that

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Speaker 2: was one of the interesting things about this film. So

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Speaker 2: it's quite conceptual at times, which is not really what

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Speaker 2: you'd expect from a Bad Boys movie. Marcus Martin Lawrence character.

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Speaker 2: Martin Lawrence's character has a heart attack right at the

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Speaker 2: start of the film and then has this near death

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Speaker 2: sort of astral plane vision experience kind of thing where

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Speaker 2: he sees his life flashed before his eyes, not just

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Speaker 2: his life, his past lives and really it's getting and

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Speaker 2: then and then. But the best bit about it is

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Speaker 2: not that because it's overcooked to the maximum. But he

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Speaker 2: comes he comes back to life, and then he has

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Speaker 2: this new new found understanding, a profound understanding of his

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Speaker 2: existence and and he's so he's saying to Will Smith's character,

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Speaker 2: you know, like, we're not just friends in this life.

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Speaker 2: We've known each other through past lifetimes. In one past lifetime,

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Speaker 2: you are my donkey, and you're a very stubborn, mean

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Speaker 2: spirited donkey, and so and so and so. At one

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Speaker 2: point during this slapping moment, Will Smith's having this crisis

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Speaker 2: of confidence, Martin Lawrence slaps him and says, I need

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Speaker 2: you to be that nasty donkey.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know, okay, yeah, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say that I've drifted off.

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Speaker 2: Out of body.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so it is a little different.

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Speaker 2: What the film does well is it allows some of

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Speaker 2: these other ancillary characters to shine. There's a Jacob Skippio,

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Speaker 2: a British actor who plays Will Smith's sort of illegitimate

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Speaker 2: son from the last movie. He's back. He's amazing, he's awesome,

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Speaker 2: like he's kicking butt like nothing. And also Martin Lawrence's

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Speaker 2: son in law who's been this sort of object of

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Speaker 2: scorn over the previous couple of movies. Reggie gets a

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Speaker 2: chance to do something really heroic in this movie, and

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Speaker 2: it's a genuinely awesome moment. And so there's times when

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Speaker 2: these other characters are really having great scenes, and I

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Speaker 2: think that adds to it. And I couldn't believe that

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Speaker 2: I'd ever say this, but I think after watching Bad

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Speaker 2: Boys four, you know, I wouldn't hate it if they

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Speaker 2: made a Bad Boys five.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, on that note, Reggie, how many duck

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Speaker 1: it's Will Smith.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give it three. So yeah, solid a

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Speaker 2: few surprises in there for