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Excellent but underrated film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is one of the best action comedy thrillers I have seen in a very very long time.The film is just flowing from one action scene to another , with a very clear pattern of what the problem is and how it is to be solved. Anthony Hopkins is the best the actor I know (Except Morgan Freeman) to play Officer Oakes .As for Chris Rock he is the right man at the right place at the right time. The bad guys are bad!Peter Stormare is the eternal Russian bad guy, doing a good job as such!John Slattery as Roland Yates head of the CIA task force has really nothing else in mind except getting the job done no matter what it takes. Filming on location in Prague adds another taste of the X- "cold war" taste to the movie.All in all: fun,action packed,fast pacing,

Take a talented comic, put him in an old plot, and you've got "Bad Company," a 2002 film also starring Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare, and Gabriel Macht. This film was scheduled for release in late 2001, and because some of it was filled at the World Trade Center, the release was delayed until June of 2002.Officer Oakes (Hopkins) of the CIA is involved in an undercover job dealing with the purchase of nuclear arms when his partner (Rock), who was the man inside, is killed. Operatives find a lookalike, Jake Hayes, a guy who scalps tickets and does about anything he can to make a living. He couldn't be more different from his lookalike, who turns out to be his twin. They were separated in order to be adopted more easily.Jake accepts the assignment to become "Michael Turner" for a lot of money, because he's just been dumped by his girlfriend (Kerry Washington) who is moving away, since Jake hasn't made it so they can get married. He has nine days to become Harvard graduate Kevin Pope, who worked undercover Michael Turner. Problems ensue, one of whom is his brother's girlfriend, Nicole (Garcelle Beauvais).We've seen this film in one form or another a million times. Chris Rock is so talented and funny, however, that he makes it very enjoyable. Anthony Hopkins is completely wasted. Not only that, but he seems to know it.This is a good rental, light, and fun.

I enjoyed it and in the end that's what counts. Whenever I write one of these it is to give people an idea of what I thought of the film in question. Not to tell them what they should think. I often get the impression a film needs to meet so many artistic, filmographic and whatever other criteria before I am allowed to enjoy it. Or so I have to believe from some of the reviews about Bad Company. If you are going to watch a film then read the back cover, do some internet research, read some magazines or ask your buddies and you will find out what a film is about. Then decide if you want to watch it or not. And then accept it for what it is without feeling the need to preach about it. I know this sounds like a rant but it isn't. It is merely my opinion and that's all it is worth. I did the research, decided I wanted to watch it tonight, did so and enjoyed it. Because I took it in at face value. I was entertained by Rock and Hopkins, the story and the action. It is fiction, sells itself as that and delivers. If you like either actor and want some light action entertainment for 2 hours, Bad Company will not disappoint. It didn't for me anyway.

BAD COMPANY is probably the worst spy thriller I have ever seen, and I've seen hundreds of them as a former film reviewer and lifelong movie nut. A CIA veteran played by a sleepwalking Anthony Hopkins must train a schlub played by a very unfunny Chris Rock to pose as an illegal arms buyer in just a few days, and don't ask why. Rock is to purchase a "thermonuclear device in a briefcase." Everything that can go wrong does, but mainly the film is a series of short scenes depicting an aging Hopkins and his crew running around interspersed with scenes of a seemingly endless army of black-garbed assassins trying to rub out Rock -- again, don't ask why. It's simply lazy writing. To give you an idea of how bad this movie is, there is a prolonged fight between one of Hopkins' agents and one of these black-garbed assassins. Problem is, we barely know the agent and have no feeling for him, but the fight goes on at great length as if this CIA guy were the second coming of James Bond. And decent supporting players like Brooke "Crossing Jordan" Smith and Peter "Fargo" Stormare are utterly wasted. What could Joel Schumacher have been thinking? I confess I fell asleep before the big finale. One firefight too many, methinks. I can only hope everyone was blown to kingdom come in the end.