A huge brain-checked mess of a summer movie. Both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are too old for this shit but who cares. The plot - Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) fight to clear the name of their former captain, Conrad Howard (Joe Pantoliano). The film does get better as it goes along, as do the stunts. Believe it or not, I enjoyed this overproduced, slightly overdirected, and badly CGI-ed gun film. Basically, it's Bad Boys meets Fast and Furious, and it looks like the series might be headed into the same territory as the Vin Diesel films with lots of "family" characters and machinations for guest stars and overlapping storylines to occur. Actually, if both were able to crossover, I would probably be there to watch. Michael Bay makes a cameo, plus more appear. "For Life" is the slightly better film, but this should be the bigger hit.
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