Anyone knows that while a Jerry Bruckheimer/Joel Shumacher film will probably never be nominated for a Best Picture award, at least their films are able to entertain you for about two hours while you munch on popcorn and drink $10 sodas. This is not the case in “Bad Company,” a film so great in plot holes, overdone ideas and one-liners that even those not looking for the mistakes will find them.
Anthony Hopkins stars as Gaylord Oakes, a down-to-business CIA-agent working with Kevin Pope (Chris Rock), an agent who has been undercover for the past two years in order to get close to the head of the Russian Mafia, Adrik Vas (Peter Stormare). The reason: to purchase a highly enhanced nuclear bomb so small it fits into a suitcase. But when a rivaling buyer attempts to kill Pope in order to steal the bid, the mission is in breach.
The CIA soon discovers, though, that not only do the assaulters think that Pope made it out alive, but that he has a twin brother, Jake Hayes. Hayes is a poor, ticket-scalping chess-hustler in the midst of saving his own relationship when Oakes arrives with an offer to fill in for his brother. He has only nine days, the time left between the last meeting and the exchange date to be trained to look like his brother, act like his brother, and most importantly not get killed like his brother. The whole premise of the film is lame. This twins separated at birth crap is getting a little annoying. It should have stopped with DeVito and Schwarzenegger.
“Bad Company” falls short in about every aspect of the film world. Rock is more serious than Hopkins, and vice-versa. Aside from Sir Anthony Hopkins saying “Get in the car, bitch,” this Bruckheimer overproduction has nothing to offer and is just a “Bad Movie.”
2.5 / 5 Stars
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare
Director: Joel Schumacher
