... Bad Company’s director (Joel Schumacher) has made some good films in his time, including The Lost Boys, Flatliners and The Client. Alas, he has also made a few turkeys too – I’m thinking Batman & Robin – and Bad Company will join their ranks without a shadow of a doubt.
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featuring Sean Dillon from the incomparable Jack Higgins -- bestselling author of Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide Baron Max von Berger. Over the years von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest men in the world developing a secret alliance with the Rashid family -- long-time foes of Major Ferguson of British Intelligence his undercover enforcer Sean Dillon and their American colleague Blake Johnson. Now the ultimate confrontation is drawing near. The diary and its explosive revelations of a secret wartime meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt will destroy the US President Jake Cazalet ...unless Dillon can find it first.
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Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
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Advantages: Anthony Hopkins is in it Disadvantages: Chris Rock is in it
...into any such story ideas. Bad Company’s director (Joel Schumacher) has made some good films in his time, including The Lost Boys, Flatliners and The Client. Alas, he has also made a few turkeys too – I’m thinking Batman & Robin – and Bad Company will join their ranks without a shadow of a doubt.
Kevin Pope is a highly experienced CIA agency, who is working undercover as a crooked antique dealer in order to ... ...serious cop, silly cop routine, Bad Company adds another entry to the genre – and a very poor one at that. I had been led to believe that Bad Company was a relatively serious action thriller – but instead I found myself watching a daft comedy that was not unlike fifty other films that have gone before.
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There are many film concepts that have now been done to death and it takes a VERY gifted film director to breathe any life into any such story ideas. Bad Company’s director (Joel Schumacher) has made some good films in his time, including The Lost Boys, Flatliners and The Client. Alas, he has also made a few turkeys too – I’m thinking Batman & Robin – and Bad Company will join their ranks without a shadow of a doubt.
Kevin Pope is a highly experienced CIA agency, who is working undercover as a crooked antique dealer in order to obtain a rogue nuclear device. An ex-KGB agent is trading the device, and it has taken several weeks and months of planning to set up the deal with him. After making contact and agreeing terms and conditions, Pope is on his way back to rendezvous with his team, when he is pursued and attacked by a gang of unknown men. The agent in charge of the operation – Oakes – rushes to rescue him, but as they speed away in a car, he finds that Pope has been shot and killed. Pope’s death presents a huge problem for the intelligence agency, as the KGB agent selling the nuclear device is not likely to trust anyone else who becomes involved in the deal.
Fortunately for the CIA, it transpires that Kevin Pope was actually an identical twin, and that his twin brother is alive and well in New York, completely unaware of his brother’s existence. The only problem is that Kevin Pope was refined, educated and well mannered, whereas his twin brother Jake is a streetwise hoodlum who plays chess for bets and sells tickets for a living. Oakes and his team approach Jake and provide basic details around the demise of his brother. Despite some initial protestations from Jake, they eventually negotiate a price for Jake to impersonate his brother, without letting him realise the importance of the job, and the danger to which he is agreeing to expose himself. All they now need to do is train Jake to impersonate his brother, bring him up to date on the status of the mission and brief him on how to recognise a nuclear device. Unfortunately, they need to do all this in eight days – and time is not their only enemy. The masked gunmen that assassinated Kevin Pope are likely to realise that they were not successful the first time round – and are sure to try again.
If implausible, unoriginal and ridiculous are three words that now spring to mind, then you are probably thinking roughly along the right lines. As if Hollywood hasn’t yet had enough of the serious cop, silly cop routine, Bad Company adds another entry to the genre – and a very poor one at that. I had been led to believe that Bad Company was a relatively serious action thriller – but instead I found myself watching a daft comedy that was not unlike fifty other films that have gone before.
The idea of matching up the unmatchable has been seen many times before, and I’m sure will be seen many times again. In Bad Company, it’s out old favourite – the serious white, Englishman versus the black New York screaming, shouting irritating cretin. To start with, I actually quite liked the character of Jake. He was comical, but not over-the-top and after a very funny moment in his local nightclub, I thought that he might become endearing. Sadly, this was not the case, and very soon he took a long walk down Irritating Avenue. Chris Rock is not my favourite entertainer in the world, but in Bad Company he is pretty excruciating and compared to the reservation of Anthony Hopkins, you quickly realise that never was a film title more apt. Rock screams, shouts and basically f*cks about at every given opportunity and rather than being endearing, he is unbelievably irritating. I hated both the Lethal Weapon series and the Rush Hour movies – and this was really just a re-hash of them.
You might think that all this stupidity could feasibly offset by some decent action – and it probably could. Sadly, in Bad Company, there is hardly any, and most of the film seems to revolve around Jake (the stereotypical loser) and his girlfriend (the stereotypical loser’s girl.) I can recollect about three or four action sequences, but these were as exciting as an episode of Columbo and by the time the film had finished, I really couldn’t believe how little had actually happened. The bad guys are corny – the usual mixture of odd-looking Russians with machine-guns and ponytails – and all completely incompetent. The icing on the cake is the climax to the film that makes a last ditch attempt to inject some tension with a digital countdown that sees our heroes running out of time before the bomb takes out half of Manhattan. It doesn’t work – by this time, I was already making a cup of tea and regretting the rental fee.
The real mystery about this movie is why someone like Anthony Hopkins would lower himself to appear in such drivel – he can’t be hard up, after all. I quite liked his character, simply because Oakes was so calm and collected compared to Jake. I strongly suspect that much of Oakes’ on-screen irritation was probably felt in real life, as I can’t imagine anyone more irritating to star alongside than Chris Rock. I’m quite sure that every opportunity to pour ice-cold water onto the fool was greatly relished – and I’d have kept getting it wrong on purpose just to be able to do it again. And again. And again.
If I had to find something to like about this film then it would reluctantly be some of Chris Rock’s lines. His tirade against the head of the CIA about Saddam Hussein was very funny indeed and you have to hand it to him – he certainly has the gift of the gab. I liked Anthony Hopkins too, who was ultra-cool and casually sauntered through the movie with great flair.
Nonetheless, Bad Company really is a bad movie – a waste of everyone’s time and effort. It would appeal to a very limited audience and is much more likely to bore and infuriate rather than entertain. Avoid at all costs.
...or other distinctly average movies. Bad Company, directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, fits into the brainless summer action movie genre and is, at best, a distinctly average example of it. Jerry Bruckheimer will never have the word 'intelligent' applied to any movie he gets involved with, but it has to be said this is one of the dumbest, most lamely scripted, hole-ridden, lack-lustre ... ...be achieved. The problem with Bad Company is that the script and screenplay are not only quite awful and incredibly unbelievable, but there are also so many lulls in the 'action' that you have absolutely hoards of time to ponder upon that fact. Bad Company is more interested in plot and exposition than action, thrills and spills and that’s a huge mistake when its all quite this preposterous and frankly quite boring in parts.
I think this movie manages ...
wampyrii 10.07.2002
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Advantages: Local legend Anthony Hopkins Disadvantages: The cringe worthy storyline
Bad Company pairs odd couple Anthony Hopkins ("Hanibal Lecter" fame) and Chris Rock ("Lethal Weapon 4") and teams big time producer Jerry Bruckheimer ("Bad Boys", "The Rock") and director Joel Schumacher ("Batman & Robin", "A Time To Kill").
The story is about the CIA making a nuclear weapons purchase (better them buying it then a terrorist state). The purchase is organised by CIA Agent Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) but he unfortunately (cough - sarcasm ... ...a gun and shooting a bad guy without blood or anything. There are some impresive moments, but they don't last long. If the film wasn't aimed for 12 year olds, it would be so much better and i'm talking leaps and bounds here people.
The scenes in Prague and New York City also look impresive as Schumacher (admitidly) has a good idea for composition and cinematogrophy but is weak in the story pacing department, packing most of the good action toward ...
DarkMark 02.07.2003 (03.07.2003)
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Advantages: Not as predictable as I thought. Disadvantages: Not much character development
...that’s just my opinion.
It’s the kind of film that once you have seen it you probably wouldn't watch it again for a very long time, so I'd borrow it rather than buy it. But over all not a bad film at all, I have spent evenings watching worse films. ...
mum_to_1 27.03.2004
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Advantages: chris rock is good, the rest nothing short of basic Disadvantages: some corn, boring and predictable storyline
What makes this film better is that it contains a lot of humour courtesy of Chris rock. If you like Chris rock then you will bare to watch this film for the full 90 minutes. The storyline is pretty basic and dull but there are some twists. The odd explosion and joke just manage to keep your attention on screen which’s speaks for itself. I Am I big chris rock fan but this feel disappointed me a little. To be honest I did not think Anthony Hopkins ... ...bit old to be a active CIA agent he fits the cannibalistic role much better! The film is basically about a man in the CIA who was dealing with terrorists who gets killed. His brother who nobody knew about comes along and must take his brothers identity to save the world from a bomb. The storyline is what we have seen a hundred times before. With two big names such as Hopkins and Rock you would expect much more from them. Quite frankly when they acted ...
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Advantages: Pretty Funny film Disadvantages: Typical black meets white comedy
I read the other reviews for this film and have to say i think they were a bit harsh. Sure this film is a little predictable but if your watching it for the comedy rather than the action packed main plot you will enjoy it. It features Antony Hopkins who played hanible lecter and his acting is as good as ever. The story follows the FBI across the globe as they have to recruit Jake haynes to replace his dead twin brother on a mission. However jake ...
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Advantages: The Rock is great! Disadvantages: Other two movies quite average.
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Advantages: Brilliant voice casting/Great DVD extras! Disadvantages: None that I could see!
!! It won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film!!
All-New Animated Short Film, Mike's New Car.
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***VOICES OF ACTORS AND ACTRESSES***
John Goodman - One Night At McCools, Coyote Ugly.
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I really cannot put into words how dire this movie is, it's so bad that its actually incredibly painful to watch, and on this basis despite the fact that I want to give my support to the company releasing the DVD , I really would not bother watching this at all, unless you are of course some sort of sadist. Manhattan Baby falls down on so many levels. The biggest of course being that after what seems like a positive build up the story just goes pear shaped. The purpose of certain events just don't add up, while the storyline seemingly heads off into Manhattan for a few drinks; when it returns it's highly intoxicated and non-sensible. "Let's chuck a scorpion in there" cries out the storyline, and as if by magic the scorpion appears. In between this ...
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Mick Garris
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English
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Russian
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Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish
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English
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In Bad Company An Inside Look
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"...[Rock] is a pleasantly fluid, flexible entertainer....His vibrant cadences create a sweet street melody..." (Sight and Sound, p.28, 01/08/2002)
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Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock join up in the action-packed buddy movie BAD COMPANY. When CIA undercover operative Kevin Pope is killed during tense negotiations for a nuclear weapon, agent Gaylord Oakes (Hopkins) recruits the man's twin brother, Jake Hayes (Rock), to take his place and prevent the bomb from getting into the wrong hands. The problem is that Hayes, a streetwise kid who scalps tickets and hustles people playing chess in the parks, didn't even know he had a twin--and now he has only nine days to learn to impersonate his impeccably dressed, well-educated, well-trained agent brother. Rock is funny in this fish-out-of-water story as Hopkins tries desperately to transform him--something he considers to be an impossible mission. Joel Schumacher, the director of such well-regarded films as TIGERLAND and FALLING DOWN, ups the action quotient as Oakes and Hayes and their determined crew (including Gabrielle Macht) travel to locations ranging from Prague to New York to save the world. Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, from NYPD Blue, plays Hayes' love interest, and Peter Stormare is the evil Vas. Hopkins and Rock make a great pair; Hayes is as loose as a goose, and Oakes is as tight as a drum. But as they get to know each other--and get thrown into dangerous situation after dangerous situation--they both discover a little something about life and love.
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