The immediacy of the internet has radically reshaped conversations around race and policing. In the 1990s, when Bad Boys debuted, we could lie to ourselves that what happened to Rodney King - and the bigotry that propelled it - was exceptional. Now, he’s got a new Bad Boys movie coming out, but there’s a question looming right alongside it: In the post-Black Lives Matter era, can Bad Boys still resonate? Will Smith became the biggest movie star in the world by playing one cop after another. This essay contains spoilers about Bad Boys for Life.
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