Bad Company Reviews

Bad Company Review
by Ram Samudrala
On the surface, /Bad Company/ is a film where American government agents recruit a unusual candidate to thwart a terrorist plot. But it really is about the relationship between the agent in charge of the recruitment and the iconoclastic saviour of the...more

Bad Company Review
by Eugene Novikov (Rating: C-)
Bad Company is a lame, trite buddy cop action comedy, worse even than Bait, the pretty-bad movie to which it is identical. Here, Chris Rock replaces Jamie Foxx as the urban crook who suddenly has to save the world, and the never boring Anthony Hopkins...more

Bad Company Review
by Rose 'Bams' Cooper
BAD COMPANY (2002) Rated PG-13; running time 117 minutes Studio: Touchstone Pictures Genre: "Action" Seen at: Celebration Cinema (Lansing, Michigan) Official site: http://badcompany.movies.com/ IMDB site: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0280486 Written by:...more

Bad Company Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 3/10)
Susan Granger's review of "BAD COMPANY" (Touchstone Pictures) So how bad is this spy thriller? Bad enough to rank as a waste of time and money. Which is really a shame because one expects so much more of actors Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock...more

Bad Company Review
by Robin Clifford (Rating: D+)
A suitcase-sized nuclear bomb is up for sale by a renegade Russian arms dealer and undercover CIA agent Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) has to get the device before fanatical Afghani terrorists can lay their hands on it. When Kevin is killed saving the life of...more

Bad Company Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: D+)
Just as CIA agents Oakes (Anthony Hopkins) and Pope (Chris Rock, "Nurse Betty") are on the verge of nabbing nuclear arms black marketer Adrik Vas (Peter Stormare, "Chocolat"), rival bidders kill Pope. The CIA uncover Pope's twin brother Jake Hayes...more

Bad Company Review
by Jon Popick (Rating: 4/10)
A few years back, producer Jerry Bruckheimer made a film (Enemy of the State) in which a sassy Negro (Will Smith) became entangled in a harebrained government operation and prevailed only with the help of a cranky middle-aged cracker (Gene Hackman)....more

Bad Company Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 4/10)
PLOT: The CIA recruits a down-and-out ticket scalper to help them foil some international arms dealers, after the scalper's twin brother (whom he didn't know existed) gets killed in the line of duty. It's the job of an older, wiser agent to turn this...more

Bad Company Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 2.5/4)
Rating out of 4 stars: 2.5 Reviewed by Harvey Karten Touchstone Films Director: Joel Schumacher Writer: Jason Richman, Michael Browning, story by Gary Goodman, David Himmelstein Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Matthew Marsh, Gabriel Macht, Kerry...more

Bad Company Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4)
So are you ready to laugh at a movie about nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists in the United States? Disney apparently thought you would be, so they made not one but two films about the subject. The latest, BAD COMPANY, directed by Joel...more

Bad Company Review
by Norm Schrager (Rating: 2.5/5)
For the second consecutive weekend, the movie industry's biggest release involves the CIA dealing with a rogue nuclear weapon that's landed in the U.S. via American-hating zealots. Is Hollywood tapping into our worst terrors or distancing us from them...more