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 Bad Company (DVD)
 Bad Company (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 28 April, 2003 at Touchstone Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / A preposterous espionage thriller starring the unlikely pairing of Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, Bad Company is a prime example of brash, mainstream filmmaking. The plot premise says it all: with its separated identical twins, Russian terrorists, stolen nuclear weapons and high-tech gadgetry, it's an attempt to tie up elements of Lethal Weapon, Bond and The Matrix in one semi-coherent whole, although director Joel Shumacher never really pulls it off. The main fault lies with the relationship between Hopkins and Rock--the former looking increasingly uncomfortable in leather jacket and baseball cap. Rock, meanwhile, has the potential to be a fine actor (demonstrated by his fine turn in the Dogma) but is given very little to work with here aside from a weak, Eddie Murphy-style comedy stereotype. Despite all its shortcomings, however, Bad Company manages to build up to a fairly diverting, reasonably exciting conclusion. On the DVD: Bad Company's DVD release is totally in keeping with the film itself: brash and showy, certainly, but lacking in real content. The gadgets, guns, explosions and chases all come up well in the digital format, as does the extensive use of the breathtaking Prague backdrop to the action. There are virtually no extras, however, with the package limited purely to a behind-the-scenes feature where everybody involved maintains what a great piece of work this film is, how wonderful the rest of the cast were and how much fun they had making it. --Phil UdellNewest Review: ... agent trying to buy a deadly explosive device on the black market. Their only hope is the identical twin brother that didn't ... more ... even know that Kevin ever existed. They must train him and turn him from a smart mouth con man to a well-spoken, educated CIA operative and they have just two weeks to do it.
Without wanting to give too much away, the whole movie is filled with great action scenes, some great (and some not so great)one liners.
The setting and backdrops are brilliant as much of it is set in The Czech Republic, which makes a fantastic contrast to the cold clinical C.I.A headquarters.
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Bad Company (DVD): Bad Company, Great movie! (289 words)
by - written on 13/12/09 (Useful, 2 readings)
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f you told me that you had seen a brilliant action film starring Chris Rock as a secret agent and Anthony Hopkins as his boss, I would have laughed I your face! But this turned out to be one of the best films I have ever seen. The plot The plot centres around the death of Kevin Pope, an undercover CIA agent trying to buy a deadly explosive device on the black market. Their only hope is the identical twin brother that didn't even know that Kevin ever existed. They must train him and turn him from a smart mouth con man to a well-spoken, educated CIA operative and they have just two weeks to do it. Without wanting to give too much ... Read the complete review
A More Exciting Team-Up Than Pacino & De Niro- Chris Rock & ... (526 words)
by - written on 27/04/05 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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They say they don't make 'em like they used to, but High Concept Overlord Jerry Bruckheimer does. Here he comes then, regular as fries, with another vac-pack of identikit summer junk. If Bruckheimer movies were burgers, they'd be Big Macs: formula-made, low on nourishment, ideal for hangovers and easy to forget you ever had one an hour after consumption. Granted, we need junk to remind us of the finer things in life, but what if you order a Big Mac and get a turkey leg instead? Actually, a quick amendment. Bruckheimer "remakes" them like he used to. So, just as "Coyote Ugly" is really "Flashdance" and "Days Of Thunder" ... Read the complete review
Bad Company (DVD): Bad Company (1539 words)
by - written on 03/10/02 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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Sometimes its damning enough to simply state that a new movie is a 'distinctly average' example of its genre, especially when that particular genre is so overflowing with other better movies or other distinctly average movies. Bad Company, directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, fits into the brainless summer action movie genre and is, at best, a distinctly average example of it. Those 4 names combined ought to give you an idea of the potential mess here. Jerry Bruckheimer will never have the word 'intelligent' applied to any movie he gets involved with, but it has to be said this is one of ... Read the complete review
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