Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Nuñez, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith, Tiffany Haddish, Joe Pantoliano
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Action comedy sequel directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and written by Chris Bremner. Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) continues to follow Miami’s finest cops Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) as this time they are now on the run.
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Best Bad Boys: Ride or Die Quotes
Marcus Burnett: [to the thief] Look, if I’m not in that car in fifteen seconds, there’s a very surly man that’s coming in here, and we both are f***ed.
Mike Lowrey: Marcus, get in the car.
Marcus Burnett: Mike, he has a gun to my head.
Mike Lowrey: You want to deal with him, or you want to deal with me?
Marcus Burnett: [to the thief] Sorry, sir. But I got to go.
Marcus Burnett: Call 911.
Convenience Store Clerk: Aren’t you the police?
Kelly: [referring to Mike] You know, it kind of makes sense that he married his therapist after he got shot.
Dorn: I love that for him. Mental health is super important.
Kelly: Well, it was his physical therapist.
Mike Lowrey: I had some growing up to do.
Rita: You were fifty.
Mike Lowrey: Thought I lost you, brother.
Marcus Burnett: Couldn’t lose me if you tried.
Mike Lowrey: You know your a** is out, right?
Marcus Burnett: Everybody’s a** is out, Mike.
Marcus Burnett: [to Mike] There’s a storm coming. No, not that kind of storm. You’re going to be tested. Things are going to get bad, and you’re going to have to make a really hard choice. Just know you’re good.
Marcus Burnett: I’m talking about our souls. You know, we’ve ridden together, but I saw it all, Mike. We’re bound, and we have been for lifetimes. We haven’t always been Mike and Marcus, but we’ve always been us.
Marcus Burnett: We’re soulmates.
Mike Lowrey: Yeah. No. I kind of, I saw my soulmate looking a little different than that.
Marcus Burnett: See, Mike. You stuck in the physical. Souls don’t have d**ks.
Mike Lowrey: I’m pretty sure my soul has a d**k, Marcus.
Marcus Burnett: My soul is more advanced than your soul. It’s not that your soul is stupid. You know? It’s just that you’re more like a baby soul, you know? And I’m more like a mother soul. And I just got to suckle you. You know? Put you on that ti**y, okay? You know?
Mike Lowrey: Hey, how long you think your brain went without oxygen?
Marcus Burnett: You need to get a job.
Reggie: I’m a US Marine, sir
Marcus Burnett: Well, then you need to deploy.
Reggie: We just got back from Yemen.
Marcus Burnett: Thank you for your service.
Marcus Burnett: Okay. Two thousand, Mike, for some Ding Dongs. And that’s my final offer.
Mike Lowrey: I think you’re going to be Ding Dong-less. Like my soul.
Marcus Burnett: [referring to Howard] He’s texting us from the other side.
Mike Lowrey: No, he’s not, Marcus.
Captain Howard: If you’re seeing this, I’m probably dead. F***. F*** me. Before I begin, I want to say one thing. I’m putting you in mortal danger. Boys, we got rats in our walls. But I got to make sure you’re my bad boys.
Marcus Burnett: I cannot die.
Mike Lowrey: M*****f***er, you did a pretty good job of dying at my wedding a couple weeks ago.
Mike Lowrey: You hit?
Marcus Burnett: No! Black jelly bean. Nobody likes that s**t.
Marcus Burnett: I got this!
Mike Lowrey: But you don’t though!
Mike Lowrey: What are you doing?!
Marcus Burnett: I’m fighting crime, baby.
Marcus Burnett: Mike, I wasn’t even going to tell you this, but in one of our previous lifetimes together, you were a donkey, and I owned you. You were a stubborn a**, Mike. You used to bite and spit. You were nasty. But I was a terrible owner, you know, because I used to beat you. Because you wouldn’t listen for s**t. And maybe I beat some kind of shame into you, Mike. And now I realize I was scarring your soul.
Marcus Burnett: We welcome the storm, m*****f***!
Mike Lowrey: Moving the air quotes down to your hips doesn’t un-air quote them.
Marcus Burnett: [to Armando] The universe is crazy, ain’t it? Look at us. I bet none of us thought when we woke up today this is where we’d be. You out of jail. We going to jail. This s**t is special.
Armando: Y’all are some terrible f***ing fugitives.
Marcus Burnett: [singing] What you going to do? What you going to…
Trailer Park Redneck: That ain’t no Reba song.
Mike Lowrey: It’s from her mix tape.
Marcus Burnett: We’re not stealing your s**t because we Black!
Mike Lowrey: [to Marcus] Your wack-a** parenting broke the truck.
Marcus Burnett: Now, I’ll take the three in the front. You take the six in the back.
Mike Lowrey: Marcus, we do not have any weapons.
Mike Lowrey: Windshield wiper fluid is flammable!
Marcus Burnett: How the hell am I supposed to know that? I ain’t no damn scientist.
Marcus Burnett: [referring to the van] Everybody, relax. The fire’s on the outside. Oh, s**t. Now, it’s on the inside!
Marcus Burnett: Ooh! Chitty-chitty bang bang m*****f***ers! Me snacks is your snacks, Reggie!
Marcus Burnett: I need Nasty Mike. Nasty Mike! Bad s**t happens, but that doesn’t mean you’re bad.
Marcus Burnett: It’s like redneck Jurassic Park in here.
Marcus Burnett: Begone, gator. This is not your place, Duke. I rebuke you! See, Mike? That’s how you command the universe.
Marcus Burnett: [after the alligator attacks him] That m*****f***er racist Mike, that m*****f***er racist!
Mike Lowrey: A wise man told me I was going to have to make a hard choice.
Marcus Burnett: You need to check with that m*****f***er before you out here choosing s**t.
Mike Lowrey: Be good.
Armando: It’s not up to you, Detective.
Marcus Burnett: Mike, in our next life, you coming back as a pair of my shoes. And I ain’t going to wear no socks, and I’m going to step in all kind of s**t.
Mike Lowrey: [to Marcus] Now, look, I don’t know what you got going on with your barbecue dictatorship in your mind, but I ain’t the one. I’m cooking on this grill whether you like it or not.
Marcus Burnett: [post-credit lines, 305 BC] All this free air out here, and I still smell your stinking a**. I curse you, donkey. I curse you for all lifetimes. Oh! You mother…
Donkey (Mike’s Voice): F*** you, Marcus.