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Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

If you loved Bad Boys for Life, the closest films we have are The Roundup: No Way Out (2023), The Fate of the Furious (2017) and The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019). All three share Bad Boys for Life's tense and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Plagues of Breslau (2018).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bilall Fallahtensekineticgritty
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Bad Boys (1995) · Bad Boys II (2003) · Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)

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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Both are built on the same subject: detective

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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The Fate of the Furious
2017 · dir. F. Gary Gray
🍅 67%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerRent or buy

Family, betrayal and absurd vehicular set pieces at full volume

The difference: Spectacle swallows character — submarines instead of partnership

When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%★ 7action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Both land tension and momentum at once

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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The Equalizer 3
2023 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 76%★ 6.8action · thriller · crimeMaxHulu

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.

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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%★ 6crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · dir. Chad Stahelski
🍅 94%★ 7.6action · thriller · crimePrime Video

Action choreography as the whole show, staged with total confidence

The difference: Solemn and near-silent — mythology and grief where jokes would go

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

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Transporter 2
2005 · dir. Louis Leterrier
★ 6.3action · thriller · crime

Miami muscle-car mayhem with a pro who makes vehicular chaos look easy

The difference: No partnership or banter — Statham works alone and barely talks

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

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Taken 2
2012 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 22%★ 6.2action · crime · thrillerMax

An aging pro dragged back into the fight when it turns personal

The difference: Grim and humorless — family-in-peril grind without the wisecracks

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 37%★ 6.2action · thriller · crimePrime VideoParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

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Ava
2020 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 18%★ 5.5action · thriller · crimePrime VideoPeacock

A veteran killer whose own employers decide she's a liability

The difference: A flat assassin drama — the fun Bad Boys runs on is missing here

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9action · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on crime

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

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Ballerina
2025 · dir. Len Wiseman
★ 6.8action · thriller · crimeMaxStarz

Gritty thriller in both cases

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

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