The Bad Boys Directors Made an Arabic Action Film

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A man in a dark jacket peers cautiously from a doorway in a narrow dusty market alley with colorful tarps and vendors walking through hazy atmosphere in the background, from 7 Dogs

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Then they made 7 Dogs, an Arabic-language action film, and it is in US theaters now.

Ahmed Ezz plays an Interpol agent who has to partner with a man from a drug trafficking syndicate to take the network down. Karim Abdel Aziz plays that man. Monica Bellucci, Sanjay Dutt, and Francis Ngannou are in it.

So is Martin Lawrence.

The directors brought the same mismatched-partners energy they know from Bad Boys and built it into a different language, a different city, a different set of rules.

Before this: Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

Quick Facts

The Bad Boys Directors Made an Arabic Action Film

DirectorAdil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

CastAhmed Ezz, Karim Abdel Aziz, Monica Bellucci, Martin Lawrence, Sanjay Dutt

GenreAction, Comedy

Release2026-06-26

Runtime123 min

Rated5.6/10

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The Bad Boys directors went international. 7 Dogs is an Arabic-language action film in US theaters now. Martin Lawrence is in it.