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2002 - Action/Adventure - Joel Schumacher - English - 12 years and over - Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare, John Slattery, Brooke Smith, Kerry Washington, Shea Whigham more

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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...
more...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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A review by kev_macca on Bad Company (DVD)
April 4th, 2003


Author's product rating:   Bad Company (DVD) - rated by kev_macca

Did you enjoy it? Disliked it 
Story Very ordinary 
Characters / Performances Good 
Special Effects Standard 
Soundtrack Good 

Advantages: chris rock is good, the rest nothing short of basic
Disadvantages: some corn, boring and predictable storyline

Recommend to potential buyers: no 

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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 played a great part as I thought he was a 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 in this film they had ‘bad company’. (Corn also appears in this film) personally id give it a 5.5/10. 
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How does it compare to similar films? Unmemorable 
How does it compare to others by the same director? Satisfactory 
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