This 1/3 'terrible Boys' movie begins with Detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) rushing through the streets of Miami with other police officers following them. They arrive at a clinic and run internal as they head to the room wherein Marcus's daughter Megan (Bianca Bethune) has given start to a infant boy. His wife Theresa (Therese Randle) and Megan's fiance Reggie (Dennis Greene) are there as nicely, informing Marcus that the boy is called after him. He proudly holds his grandson.
In a Mexican jail, inmate Isabel Aretas (Kate Del Castillo) is muttering an incantation that draws a guard's attention. Isabel grabs a knife off the guard and stabs her, with the opposite inmates leaping in and stabbing her to dying. Other guards take Isabel out of doors, handiest for her son Armando (Jacob Scipio) to help her kill off all the different guards. He frees her, and they return to their home to devise revenge on behalf of her overdue husband Benito, with Mike being their supposed very last goal.
Armando goes to the docks to pull out a crate packed with money with motive to work with different gangsters, but these gangsters try to screw him over and take most of the people shares of the money. With their weapons drawn on Armando, he retaliates by stabbing all and sundry hastily. He then orders the remaining men to step up if they wish to work loyally under his circle of relatives. A crook named Lorenzo Rodriguez, AKA Zway-Lo (Nicky Jam), joins him.
Mike and Marcus's fellow officers, consisting of Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano), collect at a bar to rejoice Marcus becoming a grandfather. They stumble upon a girl named Rita (Paola Nunez), who has just been promoted to lieutenant and is likewise Mike's ex. She informs them that she is likewise now heading AMMO (superior Miami Metro Operations), which employs a younger team of officials. Marcus knows they may be getting too antique for all the crazy matters they used to get into, and he urges Mike to calm down, even though he disagrees. The two cross outside to have a foot race, and as Mike takes the lead, Armando rides up on a bike and shoots Mike down. He gets away because the officials rush to help Mike.
Mike is in essential circumstance. Marcus prays to God that Mike be stored, with the promise that Marcus will never deliver anymore violence into the sector. Rita and Howard then order AMMO - Kelly (Vanessa Hudgens), Dorn (Alexander Ludwig), and Rafe (Charles Melton) - to do what they are able to do inspect Mike's shooter. In the meantime, Isabel chastises Armando for going after Mike so quickly, as she intentionally wants him to die ultimate so that he suffers looking others die. They continue to go after a choose, a forensics analyst, and a prosecutor, killing them all in broad daylight hours.
Six months later, Megan and Reggie get married, and Mike has recovered from his injuries. He can provide a speech at the wedding before later asking Marcus to assist him trap the shooter, but Marcus refuses, fearing someone else gets harm, and he insists that he's retired. After getting to know Mike is awake, Armando uploads his bodycam footage of him shooting Mike. He is going to Rita for assist however is also met with the identical refusal.
Mike takes it upon himself to find his shooter. He visits a retired crook named Manny The Butcher (DJ Khaled) and beats his hand with a hammer until he gives up the call of a man named Booker Grassie (Rory Markham), who could have information on the owner of the motorcycle, and consequently the shooter. Mike goes to Captain Howard, who begrudgingly has him go with AMMO to find Grassie. Mike quickly butts heads with Rafe in view that he's a smart-ass, but Kelly and Dorn respect Mike's fame as a detective.
Mike and the crew go to a warehouse wherein Grassie goes to make a drop. Mike fast catches that Grassie is making an attempt to rip the guys off and will get himself killed. A shootout begins, and Mike attempts to get Grassie out of there, but after fighting off the other thugs, Grassie is blown back by using an explosion and is impaled by using a forklift. He dies earlier than Mike can get any information out of him.
Marcus gets a call from a snitch named Carver Remy (Ivo Nandi), who claims that Armando is following him and trying to kill him. He asks Marcus for assist, who then attempts to touch Mike, however he ignores Marcus due to the fact he sees him as a quitter. Eventually, Mike choices up and joins Marcus in going to discover Remy, however once they get to his motel, Remy's frame hits Marcus's (certainly Theresa's) car. Mike runs into the inn and fights Armando, coping with to tug his masks off but finding himself taken aback while he sees Armando's face. He manages to get away.
Mike later joins Howard at a recreation, in which the 2 bond as Howard expresses his authentic problem and take care of Mike. As they're leaving, a bullet moves Howard in the throat. Armando and Zway-Lo are behind it, however given that Mike is aware of he's in plain sight, he pulls Howard away and remains at the back of a automobile, giving Armando no clean shot. Mike attempts to revive Howard, however he dies. After his funeral, Marcus officially decides to enroll in Mike in catching the shooter.
Mike and Marcus burst off to discover a shady broker named Picante Jenkins (satisfied Anderson) for a lead on their shooter. They enter Jenkins' resort room in which he's coked out of his thoughts. Marcus attempts to appeal to him on a private degree, but it only gets him punched difficult. AMMO quickly is available in, with Marcus having referred to as them, and that they tase Jenkins to the floor. Once you have Jenkins' documents, they recognize Zway-Lo and plan to song him subsequent.
The crew goes to a club wherein they locate Zway-Lo. After attempting to arrest him, he runs for it, and the team need to combat his goons. Mike and Marcus hop on a bike and sidecar, with Marcus having to break his promise to God and use a device gun to combat off the incoming thugs. They journey into the streets to pursue Zway-Lo, who then tries to board a chopper ladder. Mike runs off and latches onto the ladder as nicely. Armando shoots Zway-Lo off to get a higher shot at Mike. He tells him "Hasta el fuego" before Mike we could cross and falls into the water.
Again at headquarters, Mike has Dorn appearance up files based at the word Armando stated. Mike realizes Isabel is at the back of all of this. He explains to Marcus that earlier than they teamed up, he became deep undercover within the Aretas cartel and he had a dating with Isabel earlier than he needed to throw her in jail and get her husband killed. "Hasta el fuego" turned into a phrase they came up with that turned into nonsensical but became meant to mean "together till the flame burns out." She changed into also closely into witchery, which gave her the nickname "l. A. Bruja". Mike concludes that Armando is his son and that she has been grooming him for revenge, in view that all the victims were on the same case against the Aretas own family. After understanding he is aware of the reality, Isabel contacts Mike and arranges for him to satisfy her in Mexico metropolis to give up matters.
The crew heads to Mexico for the very last showdown, with Isabel ordering Mike to satisfy them in an antique palace. They engage in a firefight towards Isabel's mercenaries, with the AMMO officers proving their abilties with weapons, as well as bodily in Dorn's case. Marcus then shoots down a sniper chopper, inflicting it to come crashing all the way down to the building and beginning a fireplace. Armando is going to fight Mike, however he decides to confront him as a person and monitor his parentage to Armando. He asks Isabel if it is authentic, and she admits that it's miles. She tries to shoot Mike, however Armando steps in the way and takes the bullet in the shoulder. Rita then shoots Isabel off the ledge to her demise... Sending her plummeting into the flaming wreckage. Marcus almost falls over too, however Armando helps Mike pull him up and get them out of there.
Later on, the crew is getting alongside better and they have a good time as Rita has been promoted to turn out to be the brand new captain. Mike and Marcus then bond with baby Marcus, singing the "awful Boys" song to him.
Earlier than the credits roll, Mike visits Armando in jail, providing him a threat to make up for his crimes. Armando seems to be involved.
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