The highest-grossing movie of 2020 was an action movie. This was simply by default; movie theaters were only really a thing for the first two and a half months of the year.
Bad Boys For Life wouldn’t have even been one of the 10 biggest hits of 2019. But it was a genuine hit. The third
Bad Boys movie came out in a sleepy mid-January weekend with only Oscar contenders as its competition, and it managed to pull in more than $200 million domestic impressive for a new entry in an action franchise that had been quiet for 17 years. It’s a pretty fun ride, too, with Jacob Scipio turning in a magnetic superhuman-villain performance and directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah proving that they’re better at Michael Bay-style shootouts than Bay himself is these days.