Harriet Deltubbo BAD COMPANY stars Anthony Hopkins (born December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales), an actor of some domestic acclaim. It also stars Chris Rock. Rocky is good when he is bad and good when he is good, so no point in dwelling on him. It's worth watching this movie just to see him. I found the film a little too dark and a little too slow as it moves to what seems like an inevitable bitter end. I love the fisticuffs back and forth.I award it a rating of 7 out of 10. As is often the case with action movies, from an artistic standpoint, there were some plot elements and character developments I didn't think were totally needed. They do however drive the story, which seemed to be their purpose. See it.

xbernard First ten minutes into it, I couldn't tell whether this movie was supposed to be a serious crime thriller or a comedic one. In either case, it didn't look too good.Chris Rock, who, by all means, is a great comic actor, feels out of place or at least miscast and misdirected. Anthony Hopkins, on the other hand, has a more effective comedic approach. Indeed, as with many of his parts in other movies, he is able to project a lot when doing not much. His facial expressions and quiet/weary sense of humor are way more entertaining than Rock's busy and maniacal behavior.Chris Rock plays the parts of two twin brothers, one is a slick, elegant and well-mannered FBI agent who dies early on and the other, hired as his replacement, is a chess master and a street kid with a big mouth. Anthony Hopkins plays the FBI agent who used to work with the first and now has to hire the latter.One problem with the movie is that it introduces us to the training process of the hired kid, with some good scenes, but none of it is used later on.Schumacher's direction in tone and color is nice but doesn't compensate the lack of focus on character's direction and storyline.In the end, I was left with the feeling Will Smith would have been better instead, being able to project more subtlety.

namashi_1 Joel Schumacher's 'Bad Company' is a routine action film, that also has a sense of humor, though not very humorous, and a wanna be 'Pacey' background score. It ain't no bad film, but, it ain't no good film either.When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes bad, CIA agent Kevin Pope played by Chris Rock is killed. Pope was working undercover as an arm dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, who is desperate to complete the mission discovers that Agent Pope had a twin brother, Jake Hayes, also played by Chris Rock. The CIA assign the twin brother in and thus try to complete their mission.To give it's due, it has it's share of interesting moments. But, they are far and between. One is majorly disappointed by the climax, is doesn't have the thrills or the impact, you'd expect.Joel Schumacher has directed the film ably. Production values, as expected from Jerry Bruckheimer, are full-filling. Dariusz Wolski's Cinematography is okay. Acting wise: Sir Anthony Hopkins is just right. Chris Rock is loud. The actor is ought to keep a check on his expressions and his voice. Peter Stormare is wasted. Garcelle Beauvais looks alluring.On the whole, 'Bad Company' is strictly an average fare.

missrljane Officer Seale (Gabriel Macht) is handsome, brave, intelligent, an ace biker, skilled in gun duels and at dodging bullets, and can even survive being shot in the back at close range. He's great! Unfortunately, he's not the focus of the film. That is shared by street-wise scalp Jake (an irritating Chris Rock who is followed everywhere by blaring rap music) who has to pretend to be his undercover CIA agent brother and dull (not to mention elderly and overweight) Officer Oakes (an unconvincing Anthony Hopkins sleeping through his lines) who has to train Jake to save the world from a nuclear bomb.Bad Company starts with a clichéd poetic action scene in which Kevin Pope is killed. Enter exposition overload to explain who Jake is and why he has to cover for Kevin. This gets all the information across in a short space, but is so obvious and clumsy, only a child wouldn't be irritated. However, the plot itself is pleasingly straight-forward and sense-making, which isn't often the case in action films, but it does all rest on how lucky the CIA are that Jake is basically a receptive genius. But it can't be that hard for Jake to pretend to be Kevin, since Rock's Kevin acting involves using a quiet monotone and nothing else. This touches on a vague plot hole of the film, in that why does the CIA bother training Jake to act like Kevin, and then training him to act like Kevin acting like Michael Turner (Kevin's alias)? Why not go straight from Jake to Michael, especially since they are not supposed to give Jake any extraneous information that could pop out at the wrong time? Other plot holes include why in the lengthy car chase in which baddies want the bomb that Jake and Oakes have, do they not kill Jake and Oakes when they get the bomb, and undercover agents like Oakes probably shouldn't run around as CIA officers in the middle of undercover operations. Also, there is something extremely tacky about the style in which the diffusing the bomb scene is edited, with lots of random close ups.All that aside, this is an inoffensive action film, fine for passing the time, although thanks to the two flat leads, probably not one to seek out.