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Bad Company (2002)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 120

Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins fail to generate the sparks necessary to save the movie from a generic and utterly predictable script.

16

Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 26

Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins fail to generate the sparks necessary to save the movie from a generic and utterly predictable script.

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Movie Info

Dignified Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins tries the buddy action-comedy on for size with this typically slick and bombastic offering from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Hopkins stars as Gaylord Oakes, a CIA spy attempting -- along with his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) -- to secure a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb in Prague from a Russian black marketer (Peter Stormare). Just as the partners discover that another bidder for the device exists, they are ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect

PG-13, 1 hr. 56 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Michael Browning, Jason Richman

Nov 12, 2002

$30.1M

Touchstone Pictures

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All Critics (152) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (122) | DVD (22)

Director Joel Schumacher does a fair job of managing the chaos, but after a while you get tired of being dragged from setup to setup.

February 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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If you've seen the trailer, you've seen almost everything good in Bad Company.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Rock doesn't really act with the other performers; he stands next to them and buzzes in his own orbit.

June 16, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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Despite its cliché-ridden premise, Bad Company often works simply because there's so much talent on the screen.

June 13, 2002 Comment
Arizona Republic
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Predictably soulless techno-tripe.

June 11, 2002 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer demands the kind of formula action that leaves director Joel Schumacher no space to let characters breathe.

June 10, 2002 Comment
Rolling Stone
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Nuclear-bomb-in-NYC plot leaves sour aftertaste.

September 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Everything about has been done and seen before--even right down to the title, which the very same studio used as the moniker for a Laurence Fishburne/Ellen Barkin thriller.

January 12, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

The action fails to cause any excitement, and most of the characters are paper-thin.

January 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Comment
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

O roteiro é absurdo, a direção de Schumacher é fraca e o filme, em si, é simplesmente ridículo.

July 25, 2003 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Rock is trying too hard, and Hopkins isn't trying at all.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment
Film Quips Online

The funniest thing about Bad Company is that Hopkins actually agreed to star in it.

January 30, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

An easy watch, except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character.

December 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
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Not a great one, but it has its moments.

April 23, 2007
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Stupid and awful.

September 24, 2009
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