“Bad Boys for Life” is another movie franchise that was suggested many times during this film, has reached its end. Considering that this is the end of a major movie franchise that started in 1995 and 2003 with the sequel, it had to be important for everybody involved to come up with a great script before making the third movie. I thought the story was not great, only above average. I was expecting much more humor, especially considering the comedic skills of Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, although the action was on a par with the previous two Bad Boys movies. The remaining cast includes only Vanessa Hudgens as the only other named actor and she seemed miscast in this role as a member of a special task force.

What surprised me the most about this movie was that this sequel will not be the last one. At the end of this film, there is a meeting with Will Smith’s character and another character in prison, suggesting that there will definitely be another movie. On IMDB.com, there is now a “Bad Boys 4” movie in pre-production with no set released date.

I mostly agree with the 78% ratings for this film and although I was hoping for something stronger, I do recommend it.

Whenever there is a movie about a group of scientists who are working miles under the ocean, two things will always happen. There will be problems with extreme water pressure, crushing parts or all of the structure the scientists live in. There will be new and horrendous deep sea creatures that come out of the deep to terrorize and kill whoever is in their way. This time around, one of the scientists is played by actress Kristen Stewart, and what is most unusual about this film is how quickly things go wrong. Within the first 5 minutes, there is a small leak and soon after, people are running for their lives – within tunnels that are 7 miles under the Sea.

Other actors in this film are Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr, Vincent Cassel and T.J. Miller as the only other well known actor. Regardless of anyone’s rating or opinion about this movie, you have to admire some of the special effects and risks within extremely claustrophobic conditions the actors had to live in work in for months. This movie was actually made in 2017 and probably due to the low audience testing results, it has been on the shelf for 2 years. Not a good sign for any film.

I mostly agree with the relatively low ratings of about 50% for this movie and cannot recommend it, because there are not enough new things we all have not already seen in other similar films.

In my opinion, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was a below average movie with no real story and Jojo Rabbit was a bad movie. Robert Deniro received no award nominations for this 3 hour performance in “The Irishman”, and this makes no sense. Neither did Adam Sandler, who was great in “Uncut Gems”. The Joker received 11 Oscar nominations, despite the relatively low critical ratings. The Joker also made over a billion dollars world-wide and is now the highest grossing R rated movie of all time.

Best picture

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“The Irishman” “Parasite”

“1917”

“Marriage Story”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Joker”

“Little Women”

“Ford v Ferrari”

Best actress in a leading role

Renée Zellweger, “Judy”

Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”

Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”

Saoirse Ronan, “Little Women”

Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”

Best actor in a leading role

Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”

Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Antonio Banderas, “Pain and Glory”

Jonathan Pryce, “The Two Popes”

Best director

Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”

Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Bong Joon-ho, “Parasite”

Sam Mendes, “1917”

Todd Phillips, “Joker”

Best actor in a supporting role

Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Al Pacino, “The Irishman”

Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”

Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes”

Best actress in a supporting role

Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”

Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

Florence Pugh, “Little Women”

Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”

Kathy Bates, “Richard Jewell”

Best international feature film

South Korea, “Parasite”

Spain, “Pain and Glory”

France, “Les Misérables”

North Macedonia, “Honeyland”

Poland, “Corpus Christi”

Best adapted screenplay

“The Irishman”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Little Women”

“The Two Popes”

“Joker”

Best original screenplay

“Marriage Story”

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“Parasite”

“Knives Out”

“1917”