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Summary: Bad Company - a VERY good movie
Review: I saw Bad Company on the day it released. It's a perfect action-comedy. The title was perfect, too.
Anthony Hopkins + Chris Rock = Bad Company
I couldn't have hoped for a better movie. It had just the right amount of comedy to keep you laughing and just the right amount of action that will keep your eyes glued to the screen. So, be sure to see this summer hit!
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Summary: Bad Company - Very good escapist movie - worth seeing
Review: I went to see this movie on June 3rd at a preview screening...The theater was full, and judging by the reaction of the rest of the audience as the movie progressed, I would have to say that most other viewers agreed with me and enjoyed the movie as well.
Chris Rock plays a dual role as a CIA agent and his twin brother (separated by adoption as infants) who didn't know of each other's existence. When the agent is killed in the middle of a deal, the CIA pays a visit to his brother, a small-time bookie with a good heart and an aversion to 'suits'. He is talked into playing the role of his brother in order to complete the deal that was in progress.
Anthony Hopkins' talent makes the best of the rather mediocre script given to his character, and his character becomes a character you sympathize with and root for.
There are many laughable moments in this movie, and it moves along at a very good pace ... there are some predictable turns but enough unpredictability to keep you guessing.
I left the movie with the thought "I'm glad I went; it was well worth seeing".
Oscar-caliber? No. Good entertainment? Yes; definitely. Put this on your summer movie list; you won't be sorry you did.
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Summary: The First Draft of Action Flick: You Should've Revised That
Review: I'm sorry to say this, but I cannot tell you a lie. "Bad Company" turned out a very disappointing movie, not even reaching the height of being called a messy job, simply because they didn't do anything worthy of our money. Even the two stars cannot save the project.Not that there is no potential. Casting Anthony Hopkins in the role of CIA agent would be a good change of pace for him, considering his repeated appearance as "Hannibal" Lector. And he has to handle the most hopeless case, namely, turning fast-talking Chris Rock into a first-rate agent within 9 days, to save the world from destruction. And they add to them some actions and comical scenes, to make a good entertaining film. The premise looks promising, and it should be so. But the result is awful. Don't get me wrong here, for the film is awful because it doesn't do anything better than showing things we action flick fans have seen before countless times in a better form. The film goes on and on the way we think it would go, and never gives us anything new. When Peter Stormere appears on the screen, we remember he was also in the same director's thrill-less thriller "8mm," and he acts the same way as he did in there. So, when reluctant Chris Rock spends some time working on the mission with Anthony Hopkins, sooner or later they come to like each other, amid the attack of terrorists. Those basic parts are OK provided there's something more -- something exciting, amusing, or whatever. "Bad Company" gives none except the shots of beautiful town of Prague. Even Chris Rock looks quite restrained, or I should say, he doesn't know whether he should go comical or serious. He gives some jokes -- classic music and Run DMC things -- but they sound too feeble to me, lacking the brio those sidekicks should have. But the greatest disappointment might be Hopkins himself, whose acting looks (to me) half-hearted, looking as if reading the lines he was given simply because he had to say so. I thought his previous "Tigerland" had shown some proof that Joel Schumacher is not what he is usually thought to be, far better than some people might think, but this new film is trying to change my mind. Don't make me, please.
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Summary: Bad Company: Worse Movie
Review: It is difficult to imagine any movie with Anthony Hopkins as going so wrong in so many ways as he does in BAD COMPANY. Hopkins has made a career of playing the suave gentleman, whether he is the erudite if not the monomanical Hannibal Lechter or the self-effacing butler from REMAINS OF THE DAY. In BAD COMPANY, however his sense of urbane self is totally lost as he is a CIA operative who recruits a jive Chris Rock to take the place of Rock's twin brother who was killed in a mission to recover a suitcase nuclear bomb. Director Joel Shumacher clearly attempted to present a cop buddy movie in whose divergent personalities and speech rhythms the audience would surely connect. In this case, their unlike traits were less believable than those of Toody and Muldoon from CAR 54. The plot, given the events of 9/11, ought to have resonated more than it did to a viewing public that brings terrorist-laden baggage into the theater. Not for a second did I connect the movie plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in Manhattan with the real life worries that appear daily on the evening news. The film's few laughs came only from Rock's penchant for throwing off some hip hop lines at Hopkins' expense. Far too much of the story was marked by gunshots, car chases, and slimy eastern Eurotrash terrorist wannabes whose only function seemed to be to snarl directly into the camera. Had these bald-headed baddies had moustaches, they surely would have twirled them. And had the writers any original ideas about injecting any oomph into a moribund story, they surely would have done that too. Since neither event occured, the result is a brainless thriller that fails to thrill. For those viewers who prefer more in a thriller that features a countdown clock in a suitcase bomb, they would do well to turn to GOLDFINGER. Sean Connery and Gert Frobe had their dramatic interplay down pat. Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock do not.
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Summary: You're only as good as the company you keep
Review: Not to be confused with the classic western directed by Robert Benton, Joel Schumaker's and Jerry Bruickheimer's film is a fish out of water story. Chris Rock works for the CIA and is trying to (spoiler alert)purchase a nuclear bomb from a disgruntled former Russian General. His partner in this operation is Anthony Hopkins. A rival for the bomb kills Rock's character. They need to carry on and it just so happens --surprise!--he has a twin brother that Hopkins never knew about. Chris Rock (again)plays Jake who is enlisted by Hopkins to impersonate his deceased twin. Unless they are able to pull this off, the bomb will fall into the wrong hands (a Yugoslav terrorist)bend on using it in America. All right. There's got to be easier ways to cross the bad guys. Bad Company is an entertaining romp that has its fair share of explosions, gunfire, one-liners and, although it is fun, it isn't as fun as it should be nor as funny. Still, there is a certain chemistry between Hopkins and Rock. Hopkins plays his CIA operative pretty straight. He's a perfect foil for Rock. A pity the material isn't stronger and the plot not overly familiar (well, the portion without the twin). The transfer is very good, the sound terrific and this is fun for a rental but I wouldn't purchase it. Wait until it comes down in price or is on HBO and catch it there.
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Summary: Better Then I Expected
Review: Ok I didn't have the highest of expectations but it was an entertaining film. You've got to admit no one expected Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock to ever team up in a movie. Without them this movie would have been a complete flop. The plot was fairly predictable but it didn't keep the jokes and action scenes from being entertaining.
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Summary: Could've been better, could've been worse.
Review: OK, this movie sort of let me down. But, since I love a good action-comedy movie, this film kept my attention. STORYLINE-Not bad. It wasn't a very complicated plot at all, but was interesting enough to make you care. ACTING-Well, the actors should've switched rolls. Chris Rock was way over his head with the main dramatic role, which he ALMOST handles alright. Meanwhile, Anthony Hopkins has nothing to do as the straight-man. OVERALL-3/5 Like I said, could've been better, but could've been MUCH worse. It's no "Showtime" or "Bourne Identity," but it does what an action-comedy should do. No more, no less.
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Summary: Bad Company? Means CIA or Bad Bad Movie?
Review: One of the worst movies ever seen. So contrite and so ridiculously made. Since when the so-called CIA would have jurisdition in domestic affair? It is widely known that anything turned interior it would have to turn to FBI and local police forces to do the job. Since when the CIA goons would have shown their ID pass so publicly as cops in the train station chasing bad guys? None of the CIA guys looked like CIA guys in this pathetic movie including the old and fat Hopkins. And if handguns were so effective than the assault rifles or machine pistols that all the CIA guys are all dead shots by aiming handguns and shot almost every one of the bad guys with machine guns, and no machine guns could ever hit any CIA guy in the firefights. So why in the first place those bad guys would still have chosen fast guns instead of the single shot automatic to be beaten everytime? This movie was so badly made and without any basic common sense of everything. That Chris Rock looked so untidy as always and so unconvincing as anything else except an uneducated street-wise-only guy. Lousy script, lousy casting made this movie so pathetic that I just couldn't stop cursing during watching and, believe you me that I suddenly had the urge to watch "Enemy of The State" or "Undersiege" again, because they are maybe both 100 times better than this funny moive. Well, that maybe just my own taste did the calling and there just one thing that I'm very pleased after watching this lousy movie, I'm glad that I'm not the producer who would have thrown so much money into it and wasted it so unwisely.
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Summary: BAD MOVIE
Review: One star is the lowest rating I am allowed to use, otherwise merits ZERO STARS. Ought to be funny, but it's not. If you saw the trailer, then you also saw all the good parts of this movie. I didn't get involved with this movie at all and even the action and chase scenes didn't engage me very much.
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Summary: Mr. Rock two times in the same movie!
Review: Silly and predictable thriller without any trace of originality. Chris Rock, a most overreacting actor, plays a double part, Kevin Pope and Michael Turner, the first one a vagabond and the latter an inteligent and cold secret agent from the CIA. But they are twin brothers! (what a great idea!)and Mr. Turner (the agent) is killed in action and Mr. Pope must replace him for the sucess of the mission.
With that premise, the movie goes on only based upon the abominable jokes and gags of Rock and some unimpressive action scenes and car chases. A waste of time for a competent actor as Anthony Hopkins. And for you too.
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