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Bad Company

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From the reviews I heard, and read, I was expecting Bad Company to be a horrible movie. This movie was actually not bad. Granted there were some far fetched issues, like Anthony Hopkins running up flights of stairs in no time, but too me this movie was a good action comedy.

Chris Rock plays Mike Turner/Jacob Hayes. As Jacob Hayes, he is a bookie/DJ/hustler who is coming to terms with his ending relationship with Julia who after three years is moving to Seattle to move on with her life. Jacob is brought into the CIA to help finish a case his now murdered brother Mike Turner was working on. Agent Oaks has 9 days to make Jacob as polished and knowledge as Hayes to make the mission a success. Jacob is to help twart a possible suitcase bomb from getting into the wrong hands. As Mike Hayes he has to speak well, and well act like his brother without blowing the whole case. Turns out he can mix his street smarts and get over. He can't fool everybody though. When Nicole (played by Garcelle Beauvais) she knows right off he is not Mike. Jacob has to dodge bullets, and is ready to leave the case all together until His girlfriend Juila is kidnapped by the bad guys.

The movie had some great action scenes. Some of the comedic lines were out of place, but the comedic lines that did fit well in the film were funny. The scene where puts Air supply son "All out of Love" on in a club was very, very funny. Those folks in the club looked like they were about to jump him!!! Kerry Washington has a bright future if she keeps getting some good roles. Irma P Hall has a role in the film as Jacob foster mother. Michael Early also had a very small minor role, so small and minor there was really no sense in him being in the film. The same with Garcelle Beauvais her role was so minor I wondered if it was really necessary. Aside of that I really enjoyed this film, the movie is predictable at time, but interesting enough to keep you watching. I would actually rent this again.

If you enjoyed Rush Hour, or Enemy of the State then you should enjoy this movie.

Bad Company is yet another attempt to put a new spin on the worn and weathered action-comedy buddy pic. Unfortunately, the film offers nothing new, and is only slightly watchable because Chris Rock is let loose every now and then.

After a top undercover CIA Agent is killed in the line of duty (Rock), while negotiating with terroists. It just so happens that they are holding on to a rougue nuke; Senior agent Oakes (Anthony Hopkins) decides to recruit his identical twin brother named Jake (Rock again) to complete the sting operation.

Poor director Joel Schumacher hasn't had very much luck lately. The last good film he turned out was A Time To Kill, ever since then, he can't seem to find good material. The script falls back on every tired cliche` Of course the pair don't see eye to eye, Jake wisecracks his way through as a fish out of water, and is afraid of getting shot. The villians are cardboard cut outs of what's come before. For his part, Hopkins seems like he knows he's in a bad film, and wishes he had said no to the whole thing. Despite the gravity of the situation--no one seems to care in the story. There's also not much tension in the film either. It seems as though no one had much confidence in this one anyway. At 156 minutes, all one really gets is a few funny one liners from Rock, that are good for a chuckle--that's it.

Not wanting to throw salt on the wound, the DVD only has one main extra: a typical 12 minute long behind-the-scenes featurette, aptly titled, "In Bad Company". A few sneak peek trailers are included for a lttle padding.

Rather than call the film Bad Company they should have called it Sad Company...Watch some of Rock's comedy concerts instead of this piece of trash. Trust Me. You will have a better time.

Bad Company is still slightly better than Gone in Sixty Seconds, but the point is, producer Jerry Bruckheimer is churning out crap at an alarmingly fast rate. And with Kangaroo Jack out, he's not slowing down this trend whatsoever (2001's Black Hawk Down proved to be a fluke on his part). The man truly doesn't know a good script when he sees one, and the odd part is, he typically hires decent directors and to helm these pictures, which typically follow a specific formula. You got your heroes on one side, the despicable villains on the other, a countdown clock, and lots of stuff getting shot up real good.

Bruckheimer also knows how to draw in A-list actors. Anthony Hopkins is in this film. Anthony Hopkins! And he's paired with Chris Rock, who plays twins here, though the more refined, cultured one is killed off early on, and the plot has to do with the more street-wise half having to pose as his CIA sibling to make a transaction involving a nuclear bomb go smoothly. Hopkins plays his trainer, so you can see the filmmakers were opting for a mismatched buddy picture.

But the point is, there's very little about this movie worth mentioning. The premise is silly, but good action movies can be made from a lack of strong plot, right? Last year there was the wonderfully entertaining The Transporter. But no, Bad Company fails from the start because it brings nothing new to the proceedings. Everything is bland and predictable, all the way down to the perfunctory shootouts. The only bright spot is an energetic car chase, but even that is marred by Rock's awful one-liners and Hopkins' unconvincing bid as an action hero.

Hopkins and Rock display little to no chemistry. I cannot remember laughing once during the entire film, nor do I recall anything in the way of thrills, excitement, or fun. Jerry Bruckheimer won't be remembered as cinema's worst producer (Dino De Laurentiis, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan have done much worse), but when people speak his name years from now, it probably won't be out of fondness.

I remember when this movie came out in theaters. I saw the previews on TV, but was not driven to go out to see it. I just thought that Hopkins/Rock was a wierd mixture that couldn't possibly create a good movie. I was wrong. I saw the DVD on sale and picked it up, as I was interested in seeing how it actually was. I was truly surprised at how good the movie was. Of course, since it has Chris Rock in it, it has some good laughs, but in general, it's a well constructed espionage flick that's well worth seeing.

Chris Rock is always going give a stellar performance, and that is exactly what takes place in Bad Company. The movie is not great by any means and really doesn't deserve the right to be talked a lot about. Is it entertaining though? Yes.

The plot is somewhat weak and the directing is nothing out of the ordinary, but somehow Bad Company keeps your attention. The action scenes were a little over done and kind of out there, but they were adequate enough.

Chris Rock practically carried the movie with his sense of humor and good acting chops. Anthony Hopkins does his thing and is pretty good, but not stellar. He definitely took a different direction with this movie, and I can't say I can fault him. There's nothing worse than to be type-cast.

Bad Company wasn't a terrible movie and it wasn't great. I was able to watch the whole thing, and sometimes that's a feat in itself. It's not a movie to pick apart and dissect every scene. It's just good quality entertainment that you don't have to think a lot about, and sometimes that's just good enough. 3 Stars

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.

AUGHHH! Oh, avoid! I actually thought this could be funny. Chris Rock didn't write his lines and it's never funny. There seems to be a lack of interest on all parts. Main actors, director, etc. etc. The humor all comes from him being a black James Bond. Spare us. It fails on almost every level, it's dry and dull, I thought it would never end!

Simply put, this is a disappointing film. From the casting to the implausible and even more impossible plot, the whole thing does not make any sense. Chris Rock although a good comedian does not an action star make. Chris Rock tones down his whole schtick in an attempt to be cool and composed but ends up looking half baked. His natural talents are sadly wasted in this movie. Anthony Hopkins who is an excellent actor is a little too old to be cast in an action role to make it believeable. If you want a young guy, old guy action movie see "The Rock". The formula does not work all the time. The entire movie is a waste of talent with a painfully predictable plot that no amount of explosions and car chases will erase. The DVD has a THX soundtrack, but barely makes up for the content. Rent this movie first. If you still want to buy it, wait until after Christmas, it should be under relatively cheap by then.

The story was good, but theree where too many unbelievable elements. It was surprising to see such poor work from such good actors.

What did you expect? It's a truely funny movie with some action thrown in! If you liked RUSH HOUR (or even BLUE STREAK with Martin Lawrence), then you'll like BAD COMPANY. If you didn't like RUSH HOUR, then you won't like BAD COMPANY. This isn't the BEST MOVIE EVER! OF COURSE IT ISN'T! It isn't meant to be.

These people who say it's the worst movie ever made, or gave it less than 3 stars, must have been in a bad mood when watching the movie. Geez. Take it for what it is. It's a light hearted Action/Comedy movie with one serious main character, one goof-ball main character, and some seriously bad-bad guys.

If you're upset or having problems dealing with the completely unlikely fact that he had a twin brother, were you also saying "NO WAY" when you first saw superman fly? Of course there's a lot of "no-ways" and "yeah-rights" in movies. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE MOVIES! You know it's make-believe before you being watching it. So sit down, shut up, open up your mind, and try to have some fun.