Bad Boys for Life (2020)

The machismo of the earlier movies didn't appeal to me so I haven't seen them, and I suspect a fondness for the two buddy cops, Will Smith's Detective Mike Lowrey and Martin Lawrence's Detective Marcus Burnett, is necessary to care less about their antics in this third action movie of the series, one that features numerous return characters I didn't know and adds new details to the detectives' backstories that are meant to be surprising but are not surprising if, like me, you don't know any different.

★★☆☆☆

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Amityville The Awakening (2017)

A new family, one headed by a lethargic Jennifer Jason Leigh as mom, moves into the Amityville Horror house and over the course of a perfunctory 87-minutes, the son, brain-dead, bedridden, unresponsive and hooked up to machines in the front room, starts to show signs of improved condition, leading his twin sister Belle to suspect dark forces are at play and luckily her new school friends have seen and read all the books and movies in the series and so can catch her up on the based-on-a-true-family-massacre paranormal story. 

★★☆☆☆

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