Old-school cops Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett team up to take down the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel. Newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department along with Mike and Marcus go up against the ruthless Armando Armas.
The score for “Bad Boys for Life” says it all. Composed by Lorne Balfe, who has a long resume of movie scores reflecting the more violent side of life, this movie score accurately and definitively delineates the crushing brutality of the film. Balfe invokes percussion to pound out the six-beat recurring theme and brings in repeating complementary bongo-like background drums that add an almost reggae or Jamaican resonance.
Balfe, a veteran of Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions, has received high praise and many accolades for his film and TV scores such as “Mission Impossible – Fallout,” “The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” and “Genius” (TV) for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
“Bad Boys for Life” was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, famous for movies with multiple explosions, gun battles, and auto races and Balfe’s score echoes that. Digital and orchestra seem mixed together in pulsing, drum-pounding sequences with few breaks or even slowing down of the tempo. It’s not a “musical” score so much as an underscore of the action, reflecting and reverberating the tension and often the urgency of the script. It’s strong, loud, repetitive and fitting but not very memorable.
Sony Music’s “Bad Boys for Life” (Original Motion Picture Score) is now available everywhere with music by GRAMMY Award-winning, EMMY- and BAFTA-nominated composer Lorne Balfe (“Ad Astra,” “His Dark Materials,” “Gemini Man”). The album features score music written by Balfe for the third and final installment in Sony Pictures’ Bad Boys trilogy starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Track Listing:
1. Bad Boys for Life (2:47)
2. It’s Good Shit Lieutenant (3:19)
3. Take Back What’s Ours (2:09)
4. We’re Dangerous People (3:46)
5. What Else You Got (3:13)
6. Prayer (3:12)
7. God’s Gun (2:37)
8. The Truth (4:52)
9. Promise to God (2:59)
10. We Ride Together, We Die Together (6:02)
11. Ambulance Heist (2:59)
12. One Last Time (1:57)
