rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States, Czech Republic; 2002
Directed by Joel Schumacher; produced by Michael Browning, Jerry Bruckheimer, Mike Stenson; screenplay by Jason Richman, Michael Browning
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare, Gabriel Macht, Kerry Washington, Adoni Maropis
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Bad Company is a combination of films we have seen a lot. If the film has
some original moments that doesn't matter much, but Bad Company is not
original in any way. Like almost every movie it has its fun moments, but
besides those I only liked Anthony Hopkins. Not that he has a very great
performance in this film, there is just something about him that always
pleases me in his performances. I think it is some kind of peace in his
voice or something.
The story is about Chris Rock who is killed after Part I of a weapon-deal,
saving the life of Anthony Hopkins. They are both CIA-agents, undercover of
course. The killers are terrorists who also wants the weapons involving the
deal and during the movie they keep coming on the way. To complete Part II
of the weapon-deal, 8 days later, they need another undercover agent who
looks exactly like Chris Rock. It happens to be that Chris Rock has a twin
brother, earning his money with street-chess and ticket-selling, looking
exactly like Chris Rock. This brother must be trained to do the rest of the
deal.
The scenes involving his training are supposed to be funny... most of the
time, they are not. I didn't laugh for any of Rocks scenes. In Lethal Weapon
4 I liked his one-liners, here they are annoying. The story gets more
predictable with every minute and then there must be some kind of turning
point which is simply ridiculous. Some action sequences were pretty okay, so
the movie was watchable. If you don't bother plot and if you try not to be
annoyed by Chris Rock you might even like it. I did sometimes.