Barely a script, all scrap, like cinematic cocaine. The green Will Smith and Martin Lawrence shined as two highly likable, high-energy performers who survive a dizzying number of shootouts, car chases and collateral damage–inducing explosions. It wasn’t so much a movie as it was a series of set pieces loosely connected by brief interludes of snappy dialogue. It hit theaters at a time in which the genre was dripping in over-the-top machismo it’s no coincidence that it arrived in the same year that Die Hard With a Vengeance led the global box office. Michael Bay’s Bad Boys helped popularize the urban action drama. SEE ALSO: Bombastic and Absurd, ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Is Also a Lot of Fun By 1995’s Bad Boys, the genre had transmogrified once more. The ‘70s followed with a deluge of gritty detective tales and sci-fi adventures, while the ‘80s gave birth to the big budget action star in the mold of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ian Fleming’s James Bond ushered in a new era of action with Sean Connery in the 1960s-suave spies traipsing about in aspirational fantasy. Douglas Fairbanks, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood. Cowboys on the final frontier forcefully instilling lawful morality in lawless vacuums. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Western entertainment was built on the back of the archetypal Western. As such, the action genre has undergone its own metamorphosis, which is why Sony’s Bad Boys for Life feels as if it’s been plucked from a bygone era. The genres of cinema, just as the genuses of the natural world, change and evolve over time. The push and pull between nature and nurture produces groundbreaking creators to expand the notions of conventional storytelling, while increasingly knowledgeable audiences demand new and unique products from Hollywood. Held within their genetic code is the ability to change from generation to generation. Kyle Kaplan/Sonyĭarwin’s Law of Evolution states that species are neither completely uniform nor immutable. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence star in Columbia Pictures’ Bad Boys for Life.
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