Where to watch
Each link opens a search on that service. Checked 13 October 2026.
Streaming data from JustWatch
Bad Boys for Life
2020
· Movie
· 124 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2954
- IMDb #3355
- Google retired #2024
- Rotten Tomatoes #988
- Metacritic #2740
- Letterboxd #4081
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2300
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #49
- Metacritic Critics #2515
- Metacritic Audience #2984
- Criticker #3103
- Douban #2607
- Kinopoisk #3438
- AlloCiné #2843
- Trakt #1986
Every rating
34–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 34, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The wife and son of a Mexican drug lord whom Mike Lowery put in prison years ago vow to take revenge, putting a bounty on his head. The attack forces the now-older Miami detectives back into action. They must adapt to new rules and a new high-tech police squad to take down the vicious cartel that is threatening their lives and the city.
Details
- Directors
- Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
- Writers
- Chris Bremner, Joe Carnahan, Peter Craig
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, 2.0 Entertainment, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Overbrook Entertainment
- Released
- 15 January 2020
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $90.0M
- Box office
- $426.5M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 9 nominations
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (92) →
Awards & nominations
See all 12 →3 wins from 12 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Critics' Choice Super Awards 2020 | Best Actor in an Action Movie | Will Smith | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards 2020 | Best Action Movie | Nominee | |
| BET Awards 2020 | Best Movie | Nominee | |
| NAACP Image Awards 2020 | Outstanding Motion Picture | Winner | |
| NAACP Image Awards 2020 | Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Will Smith | Nominee |
| People's Choice Awards 2020 | Favorite Female Movie Star | Vanessa Hudgens | Nominee |
| People's Choice Awards 2020 | Favorite Male Movie Star | Will Smith | Winner |
| People's Choice Awards 2020 | Favorite Movie | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More like this
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
30 October 2026
Denzel Washington is more than an actor: a global Black cultural icon
How global visibility, artistic freedom and a commanding public presence gave his career a meaning that reaches beyond the films.
29 October 2026
Why Batman works without superpowers—and when the films forget why
Fear, money, detective work and moral limits: four Batman films test what makes Bruce Wayne worth watching.
8 October 2026
Leonardo DiCaprio's films, ranked—and the performances inside them
Twenty-one selected films, with a closer look at the acting: comic timing, self-invention, wounded authority and the effort that sometimes shows.
8 October 2026
Why Person of Interest belongs among TV’s great dramas
The cases, Carter, the Machine and the difficult argument beneath an apparently familiar crime show.
8 October 2026
Why The Matrix still works: the action is the argument
How bodies, belief and a world with visible rules make the 1999 film more than a collection of famous effects.
8 October 2026
Batman movies ranked: the films behind the scores
Twelve theatrical films, from Adam West to Robert Pattinson, and the different claims they make for the mask.
Just released
See all →
Coming soon
Trailer — Bad Boys for Life
×Full cast — Bad Boys for Life
×
12 awards — Bad Boys for Life
×
Critics' Choice Super Awards
2 nominations
| Best Action Movie | Nominee | |
| Best Actor in an Action Movie | Will Smith | Nominee |
People's Choice Awards
6 nominations, 2 won
| Favorite Male Movie Star | Will Smith | Winner |
| Favorite Movie | Winner | |
| Favorite Action Movie | Nominee | |
| Favorite Action Movie Star | Will Smith | Nominee |
| Favorite Action Movie Star | Vanessa Hudgens | Nominee |
| Favorite Female Movie Star | Vanessa Hudgens | Nominee |
NAACP Image Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Outstanding Motion Picture | Winner | |
| Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Will Smith | Nominee |
BET Awards
1 nomination
| Best Movie | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Action or Adventure Film | Nominee |