The four Bad Boys movies ranked showcase an action franchise that bucks many trends, chiefly that it gets better with each passing installment. Michael Bay made his directorial debut with the buddy-cop movie Bad Boys in 1995, which saw Will Smith and Martin Lawrence play partners-in-crime in a bromance that quickly became one of Hollywood’s iconic pairings. A sequel, Bad Boys II, followed just under a decade later, in 2003, with the third film in the franchise Bad Boys For Life arriving in January 2020. The 4th entry, Bad Boys: Ride or Die arrived in 2024
