Bad Company (2002)
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10% of critics liked it
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41% of users liked it
(56,176 ratings)
Dignified Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins tries the buddy action-comedy on for size with this typically slick and bombastic offering from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Hopkins stars as Gaylord Oakes, a CIA spy attempting -- along with his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) -- to secure a suitcase-sized… More Dignified Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins tries the buddy action-comedy on for size with this typically slick and bombastic offering from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Hopkins stars as Gaylord Oakes, a CIA spy attempting -- along with his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) -- to secure a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb in Prague from a Russian black marketer (Peter Stormare). Just as the partners discover that another bidder for the device exists, they are ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect Oakes. Desperate for the bomb's owners and their attackers to believe that Pope is still alive so that the deal can commence in ten days time, Oakes recruits his late partner's long-lost twin, ticket-scalping chess hustler Jake Hayes (also played by Rock), a small-time criminal who never knew he had a brother. Offered a sizable payday and the admiration of his student nurse girlfriend, Hayes agrees to undergo vigorous training and dangerous situations as he impersonates his brother and helps Oakes to remove the nuclear threat, but the new partners clash in every way possible, from personal discipline to musical taste. Meanwhile, the assassin of the real Kevin Pope sends another cadre of killers after the agent he believes is still alive. Bad Company co-stars Kerry Washington, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Gabriel Macht, and Matthew Marsh. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joel Schumacher
- Written By
- Michael Browning, Jason Richman
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jun 7, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Hank Sartin, Chicago Reader
Director Joel Schumacher does a fair job of managing the chaos, but after a while you get tired of being dragged from setup to setup.
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
If you've seen the trailer, you've seen almost everything good in Bad Company.
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
Rock doesn't really act with the other performers; he stands next to them and buzzes in his own orbit.
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Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Despite its cliché-ridden premise, Bad Company often works simply because there's so much talent on the screen.
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Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Predictably soulless techno-tripe.
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Cast
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Anthony Hopkins
as Gaylord Oakes
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Chris Rock
as Jake Hayes, Kevin Pope
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Matthew Marsh
as Dragan Adjanic
- Brooke Smith
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Peter Stormare
as Adrik Vas
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John Slattery
as Roland Yates
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Garcelle Beauvais
as Nicole
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Dragan Micanovic
as Michelle Petrov
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Gabriel Macht
as Seale
- Shea Whigham
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Kerry Washington
as Julie
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Peter Macdissi
as Rami
- Adoni Maropis