Bad Company

Plot synopsis:
When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes bad, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Kevin Pope (Rock) is killed. Pope was working undercover as an antiquities dealer under the name Michael Turner. The CIA, which is desperate to complete the mission, discovers that Agent Pope had a twin brother, Jake Hayes (also Rock), from whom he was separated at birth; their mother died giving birth and Hayes suffered from a severe lung infection that prompted the doctors to separate them because they felt that Hayes was unlikely to live for very long. Hayes hustles chess games, scalps tickets and works at small clubs in Jersey City, New Jersey to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Hayes's girlfriend, Julie (Kerry Washington) grows tired of waiting for him to grow up and decides to move to Seattle, Washington.
After the CIA successfully persuades Hayes to participate and begins to train Hayes for a mission that is to take place in Prague, Czech Republic, they are initially dismayed by his lack of refinement. Agent Oakes (Hopkins) confronts Hayes, telling him he doesn't trust him. When Hayes begins paying attention, the CIA sets him up in his brother's old apartment in Manhattan to test him and try to bait the men who killed his brother. Hayes is attacked, but escapes unharmed. Looking for a way out, Hayes goes to his foster mother only to be found by Oakes, who persuades him to finish the mission.
After arriving in Prague, Hayes - posing as his dead brother - meets with the men selling the suitcase bomb. The seller, Adrik Vas, is an ex-Russian Army Colonel with ties to the Russian Mafia. When they return to their hotel, Hayes is greeted by his brother's ex-girlfriend Nicole (Garcelle Beauvais). Believing Hayes is his brother, she dines with him and returns to his hotel, where the couple is ambushed by rival buyers. Nicole figures out that Hayes isn't his brother and returns to her assignment covering the Balkans for CNN.
Moving forward with the plans, Hayes and Oakes meet up with Vas and are able to steal the arming codes. Just as they close the deal, Vas' men double cross them with the rival buyer. When the rival dealers, who are part of a multi-national terrorist organization, learn they can't detonate the bomb because of the missing codes, they kidnap Julie. Hayes gives himself up trying to save his girlfriend, and the terrorists get the codes back and arm the bomb.
Now the race begins to find Hayes and the bomb. After interrogating one of the captured terrorists, they track the bomb to Grand Central Station. With the clock ticking, they locate the bomb and the terrorist leader Dragan Adjanic (Matthew Marsh), who has started the countdown. Oakes rescues Hayes by killing two terrorists. As Hayes starts to enter the codes to disarm the bomb, Adjanic holds Julie hostage. In order to distract Adjanic, Hayes pretends to shoot Oakes, and they kill Adjanic by shooting him repeatedly. Hayes is able to disarm the bomb just prior to detonation.
At the ending of the film, Hayes visits the memorial for deceased secret agents to visit his brother's grave. Later on, Oakes comes up to Hayes at Hayes's wedding and warns him that a dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge upon Kevin Pope, but since Kevin is dead and Hayes was impersonating him, the criminal thinks Hayes is Kevin. Hayes begins to panic and demand that Oakes has to protect him, but Oakes starts laughing as he reveals that it was just a joke and he really just came for the wedding and also giving him a honey moon trip as a wedding gift.

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Review:
Some of it is funny, but to be honest, if you dislike Chris Rock then there will be practically nothing for you.The plot brings the bomb back to the US towards the end in an effort to inject tension and urgency into the action, but it doesn't really work.
Chris Rock also played his role as it should have been played and restrained himself from his usual antics, as in "Lethal Weapon 4."  Not a great movie but much better than the awful "The Sum Of All Fears.".
I think Chris Rock gave a great performance and Anthony Hopkins is always wonderful.
When he acts benightedly in a cliched spy thriller that is a virtual textbook of Hollywood expectations, right down to the scruffy mid-eastern terrorists and the oversized red digital readout on a nuclear bomb.Anthony Hopkins plays a CIA veteran who must train a streetwise kid, played by Chris Rock, how to act like a real agent in 9 days.
The bad side of `Bad Company' is the bug-eyed, monotone, hysterical Chris Rock, who may have been medicated for this role because I didn't have to cover my ears this time-I just bore up under his boring delivery.Brooke Smith, who was the captured girl in `Silence of the Lambs', plays Hopkins' partner.
It's like he polished of his cameo character from Mission Impossible 2 and set it to work for a whole film.The movie is supposed to be an action comedy but the action scenes are limited to a few machine gun firefights conducted by people who can't hit targets 10 feet away, and a single car chase.The comedy is limited to hearing Hopkins use the phrase "get in the car, b*tch" and some Chris Rock moments.
In Prague, the CIA secret agent Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) is killed in a mission with Oakes (Anthony Hopkins).
When the more successful brother, Kevin (ironically the one who got his act together and made a life for himself, yet also the one who got himself killed) is shot escaping a touchy sting operation in which he and his team try to buy a stolen nuclear weapon with cyber money that doesn't exist in real life, the CIA are faced with abandoning a 2 year project and risking themselves because their new enemies are going to want to know what happened to their deal or seeking out Kevin's twin brother Jake, who makes a living whipping the crap out of unsuspecting chess players in Central Park and selling scalped tickets to just about any event you can imagine.At this point in the film, it's clear that the premise is a remarkably strong one for an action comedy - the irony of having a street hustler suddenly thrown into a top secret CIA operation.
Unfortunately, the movie seems to lose track of the fact that it is a comedy, and in more ways that just forgetting to throw in some good one-liners.Bad Company was made and scheduled to be released before September 11th, but was then delayed for obvious reasons (similar to the obvious reasons that delayed the release of the much more incendiary Collateral Damage, given its subject matter).
When are we going to see some good action movies that are about something other than one guy who has to save a whole city from terrorists with big bombs?There are points in the movie where it seems that the writers stopped and said, `Oh wait, this is supposed to be a comedy,' and threw in a few completely unamusing jokes here and there, mostly in the form of totally inappropriate one-liners from Rock that almost invariably fall completely flat.
Then at the end of the movie, just as the bad guy is about to get killed, he says something about how we Americans think we're so great but we just sit here while people all over the world suffer and die, and we just watch it on our televisions and grab another burger.
If you like either actor and want some light action entertainment for 2 hours, Bad Company will not disappoint.
Now people complaining need to realize1) Chris Rock is a commedian 2) Anthony Hopkins is the "straight man" 3) Chris Rock's main character (the bookie / scalper) is a realistic cynic who has no "faith" in the system (much of the humor is derived from this)One person gives the sarcastic remark where he goes on about how Chris Rock said "big deal" when he was told he had an identical twin brother.Yeah, this is on par, because he doesn't believe them (after all, identical twins seperated at birth is pretty cliche')  this not only shows realistic attitude on the main role but pokes fun at the movie (and thus lends the plot a little more credit)In my humble opinion, this is typical Chris Rock humor (which IS over the top for him if you've ever watched him)Chris Rock is on par for his usual style.
Hopkins brings the refinement and grace you expect of him (think Hannibal in Silence and Red Dragon)The spy v/s spy - cloak and dagger theme is on par for Hollywood...What you get is a good Chris Rock comedy with the spy theme...
I saw this film the other day, I thought after reading reviews here it was going to be one of the worst movies I ever saw, I was mistaken, I found the film very entertaining, Hopkins and Rock worked well together, the general idea of the movie was sound and I thourougly enjoyed every minute of the film, maybe it was saved by the actors for me but I really did enjoy it worth seeing so you can judge for yourself..
Why do people like Chris Rock feel the need to play in movies.
It's not only a "Bad Company", it's also a very bad movie.I didn't know what to expect, but I feared it would be like it actually was - a bad movie.The acting was done alright by Hopkins and was as you expected from Chris Rock.
Anthony Hopkins, the poor man, sleepwalks through this movie often looking tired and bored as he is forced to perform these drawn out tired monologues and terrible stunts while acting alongside Rock who can barely act.
I don't like Chris Rock usually, but in this movie he really impressed me with his ability to be serious and at the same time funny.
This movie was believable, even the bad guy at the end who made a strong statement about "why" there is terror in the world.But Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins really were the heroes here because what movie really was about was people and what was really important about living.
Commendations go to the Director, Chris Rock, and Anthony Hopkins for making a movie, getting out of the box and pushing the envelope by making something real, not superficially dumb.
This is an entertaining movie, Chris Rock delivers on the comedy aspect with some funny one-liners, and he can also pull off the serious acting, the rest of the cast are also good in their roles.
Professional Critics criticised Anthony Hopkins' performance by saying he seemed "bored" and that his character is "bland", but this could be how Director Joel Schumacher wanted this character, plus Hopkins' character is a good match with Rock's character, one lively character and one chilled character - a perfect match.There's some decent action scenes, and the thriller aspect is clearly there.
Bad Company lives up to it's genre of being an Action Comedy Thriller.As a Christian, there is something that I dislike about this flick and that is a disrespectful statue of Jesus in a few scenes, they could have edited those scenes out as well as some of the trashy clips of Chris Rock and the glamorous woman "Nicole"..
The first thing to know about "Bad Company" is that the producer is Jerry Bruckheimer (who produced a couple of Michael Bay's explosion-laden movies) and the director is Joel Schumacher (who brought the Batman franchise to its nadir in the late 1990s).
That, plus the casting of Chris Rock in his usual sort of role, tells you pretty much everything that there is to know about this movie.
I will say that I liked the interactions between Chris Rock's and Anthony Hopkins's characters, and also when Rock BSes the villain.Basically, it's not any sort of movie to take seriously.
Cheesy lines from funny man Chris Rock make this a hard film to take seriously.Chris Rock should not have been cast if they were trying to make a serious thriller, and although I like Anthony Hopkins, the guy has got to learn to say no.Say no to scripts that involve running, fighting or anything physical.
The fight scene in the car is simply ridiculous, as is seeing Hopkins with a gun or trying to look cool chewing gum.If you want to watch a comedy, don't watch this movie.If you want to watch a thriller, don't watch this movie.If you want to watch a suspenseful, intelligent and cleverly scripted action movie, don't watch it.It's not Bad Company it's just bad!.
The other his unknown twin brother who is a ticket scalper and part time DJ growing up in the wrong side of the city without the breaks and money that the other brother had.He is approached by Anthony Hopkins to be trained by the CIA quickly to finish the deal his brother started as they have nine days to buy a nuclear bomb in the black market in Europe.
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.
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 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..
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.
Ive read the people's comments before my own here and I have to say I dont agree with all of them.The story is very close to real life: russia has fallen apart and the russian mafia is selling out including weapons that are very much wanted by all sorts of terrorist organisations that have the money to now simply buy these devices on the black market.Even though the basic outline of the story may be a tad standard you can still create an enjoyable movie but putting in details that make the film more unique.I think that Anthony Hopkins played his role very well except for a few small places where he didnt send out the correct emotion (like when Chris Rock and the girlfriend of his brother are being chased down the hall and Anthony Hopkins very calmly says "Ok lets join the party" or the scene where he shoots a badguy in the back and then very calmly looks down the laundrychute while Chris Rock is falling down to a possible death).
Apart from these 2 or 3 total scenes in all he does a good job portraying an elder operative who has the experience and starts to question the way things are a done.Chris Rock plays his role of streetpunk convincingly.
I thought Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock did a great job of acting which carried the movie.
He has the Chris Tucker type of humour but he is far less successful.Bottom line is: the movie's plot is a stretch, it is not a comedy (not a good one, at least), but it is far from drama or even action, too.
Under the watchful eye of C.I.A. agent Gaylord Oakes (Anthony Hopkins), Jake Hayes is soon transformed in true Pygmalion-style from a hip-hop loving petty criminal to an urbane super-spy, whose responsibility it is to save New York City from nuclear annihilation.The ever-so predictable antics that ensue, make Bad Company an excruciatingly tedious 116 minutes.
And I have such respect for the actor Anthony Hopkins; but I believe he'd be better off with serious roles in a small movie or tiny but important roles in a big-budget one just like he did in "MI:2" with Tom Cruise..
Some of the other actors dialogue is a bit weak, but Chris rock has a lot of funny lines, and as long as You dont go expecting A serious Film you will be surprised.
Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock delivers an okay performance in this movie even though it is not as funny as one would have hoped.
Chris Rock is very funny as his streetwise lifestyle in this movie makes him a very nice character which you immediately like.
well i sat down to watch this film the other night not really expecting much from it but to my surprise it was actually very good i am not a fan of chris rock at all, but he played a good role in this film along with Anthony hopkins who once again shows what a great actor he is.all in all this is a good film which is easy to watch, dont have to think to much when watching it :) a fair amount of action and some good laughs in it, i didn't get bored watching this movie at alli gave it 7/10.
I went to see this movie primarily because I have been a fan of Anthony Hopkins and Jerry Bruckheimer for a while, but, having never been a fan of Chris Rock it was a little hard to watch the movie without wondering when he was going to make me wish I hadn't come.
Although Chris Rock ain't a great actor I think he did a good job in this movie.
I think if critics would have viewed this movie for what it was...and not what they expect of Anthony Hopkins...it would have been a more favorable review.I thought the pairing of these two actors was a brilliant move!!
This is a forgettable and boring movie, a film you will forget by the time the end of June comes around.This film stars Anthony Hopkins as a old and withered CIA agent, on a mission to buy a Nuculear bomb off a terriost named Adrik Vas(Peter Stormare), until after the first meeting, Hopkins and Chris Rock now in the CIA brother, gets chased and ends up getting killed because he saved Hopkins life.
The other preformance that is nice to watch is Gabriel Macht(Agent Seal), he is a straight arrow and is smooth, he looks and acts like he should be in the CIA, makes it fun to watch him in action.The movie just falls apart, I saw this movie two weeks before it came out(a screening) and then saw it again few nights ago with some friends, but as I watched it again, i got bored very easily with the film, and couldn't wait until the credits began to roll.
BAD COMPANY  +___  Action Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Gabriel MachtThe CIA attempts to purchase a Nuclear bomb to prevent it being detonated on US soil (see the subtle difference?).
There is virtually no story line, but lots of machine-gun fire and explosions.Hard to believe Anthony Hopkins or Chris Rock would have become involved in a turkey like this.
Then, when I saw the preview for "Bad Company," starring Chris Rock and Sir Anthony Hopkins, I thought to myself, "This is gonna be a big hit!
To all who like smart, witty, brilliant movies, Bad Company is your film..
Chris Rock as Kevin Pope was very believable, and as Jake Hayes, the streetwise ticket seller, even more so.I would (and have!) recommend this movie to anyone looking for a great laugh!
moving on, anthony hopkins was good in this flick and this is the first film i've seen with him were he is an action hero.
Overall: Bad Company is pure Energy, plenty of action and humor to keep you from walking out of this movie.Acting: These two mismatched actors (Hopkins - Rock) are perfect for this kind of movie.
Chris Rock gives some unbelievably bad lines in this movie, and poor Anthony Hopkins is half asleep the entire film.
Chris Rock gives some unbelievably bad lines in this movie, and poor Anthony Hopkins is half asleep the entire film.
Bad Company is certainly not the same kind of movie, but worth checking out in it's own right.Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins perform well as counter-points to each other, although Hopkins' character is rather understated.
I like Anthony Hopkins and I'm not so crazy about Chris Rock as an actor.
It looked like another bad buddy movie, and I hated to see Anthony Hopkins, one of my favorite actors, make a fool of himself in such a film.
Chris Rock (playing duel roles) and Anthony Hopkins are perfect as the two leads.
I just wonder why sir Anthony Hopkins will go into trash like this..This was the first film I saw where Chris Rock is acting and I don't think I will ever want to see another one.