Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth installment in the Bruckheimer Bad Boys saga starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The Miami buddy cop films center around Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, played by Smith and Lawrence, respectively. The movies have heightened significantly in their almost thirty years from the '95 film that finds them acting as witness protection to 2020's Bad Boys For Life, in which they found themselves on the hit list of a Cartel assassin who ends up being Mike's long-lost son, Armando.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is not a return to the original form but instead a slight continuation of BBFL that finds Mike and Marcus attempting to redeem the legacy of their beloved deceased captain, Howard, who has been framed as corrupt. Able to trust no one, the bad boys find themselves on the run and seeking help in the most unlikely of places from Captain Howard's killer and Lowrey's son, Armando. If you read that quick plot summary and thought, "Wow, that sounds dumb as hell," we probably do not have the same taste in cinema.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a delight. It is packed with action, comedy, familiar faces, gags, and tropes that make for a very fun couple of hours in the cinema. Smith and Lawrence have a chemistry that can't help but make you smile. The set pieces throughout the movie provide extravagant action the likes of which is no longer seen on the big screen. When it was revealed that the final showdown would take place at an abandoned gator amusement park, I let out an audible 'yes'! It is not hard to see why Bad Boys: Ride or Die is dominating the box office with $104.6 million worldwide and an A- CinemaScore.

We like what we like – to laugh, to watch shit blow up, and to spend a couple of hours in a world with familiar characters we love and easy-to-understand bad guys we hate. I give Bad Boys: Ride or Die a 9.1 and suggest you see it on the big screen if you enjoy dumb fun and action movies of old. I also implore Hollywood to put Martin Lawrence in more things, as he is a scene-stealer and comedic genius.