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NUMBERS
Box Office: $30,128,152
VHS Rentals: $9,030,000
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CONSENSUS
Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins fail to generate the sparks necessary to save the movie from a generic and utterly predictable script.
CAST & CREW
Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon
Directed by Joel Schumacher
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SYNOPSIS
Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock join up in the action-packed buddy movie BAD COMPANY. When CIA undercover operative Kevin Pope is killed during tense negotiations for a nuclear weapon, agent Gaylord Oakes (Hopkins) recruits the man's twin brother, Jake Hayes (Rock), to take his place and prevent the bomb from getting into the wrong hands. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality, and language
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 7, 2002
Video: Nov 12, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Touchstone Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Comedies, Action, Los Angeles, California, Terrorists
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Bad Company Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "The movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable. I tried to read the time on my watch."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Rock's stand-up magic wanes. Hopkins, squarely fills the screen. Action - mechanical."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"'[Hopkins]doesn’t so much phone in his performance as fax it. No, even that’s too committed. He gets his secretary to fax it.""
-- Paul Arendt, TELETEXT (UK)
"The film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles: wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one (and no one)."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"...plays like somebody spliced random moments of a Chris Rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"...[a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for Rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"The pairing does sound promising in theory...but their lack of chemistry makes Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
 "Never really funny and falling just short of exciting, Bad Company is just ok for an action flick."
-- Chuck the Movieguy, THEMOVIEGUY.COM
"While there's something intrinsically funny about Sir Anthony Hopkins saying 'Get in the car, bitch,' this Jerry Bruckheimer production has little else to offer"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...its stupidities wind up sticking in one’s mind a lot more than the cool bits."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on. The movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like Chris Rock."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Scores no points for originality, wit, or intelligence. It’s a cookie-cutter movie, a cut-and-paste job."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"It stars schticky Chris Rock and stolid Anthony Hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie. Their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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"The film is really not so much bad as bland."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Terminally brain dead production."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"We started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'Chris Rock,' 'Anthony Hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some Univac-like script machine."
-- Catherine Cantieri, HOLECITY.COM
"If routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea, then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear. This is one baaaaaaaaad movie."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"“Bad” is the operative word for “Bad Company,” and I don’t mean that in a good way."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Bad company. Bad movie. Just plain bad."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"An easy watch, except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character."
-- Ryan Cracknell, APOLLO GUIDE
"In this film we at least see a study in contrasts; the wide range of one actor, and the limited range of a comedian."
-- Michael Drakulich, STAR NEWSPAPERS (CHICAGO, IL)
"You can sip your vintage wines and watch your Merchant Ivory productions; I'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a Jerry Bruckheimer flick any day of the week."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"A momentary escape from the summer heat and the sedentary doldrums that set in at this time of year."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
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ROTTEN 14%
Avg. Rating: 4/10 |
"The first question to ask about Bad Company is why Anthony Hopkins is in it. We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce, because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low."
-- Sam Allis, BOSTON GLOBE
"Predictably soulless techno-tripe."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Bad Company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year, full of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Bad Company leaves a bad taste, not only because of its bad-luck timing, but also the staleness of its script."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"This film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock, is your typical 'fish out of water' story. You've seen them a million times. Just one problem: Fish out of water usually die. This one does."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"One problem with the movie, directed by Joel Schumacher, is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"A long-winded, predictable scenario."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"It's got all the familiar Bruckheimer elements, and Schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the Hopkins/Rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"More a gunfest than a Rock concert."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
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"This film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what Christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow: a poor -- if durable -- imitation."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
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* Certain "Bad Company" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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