Bad Company Reviews
January 3, 2020
A pleasant enough film, but taken as a whole it has about as much cohesion as a Bob Hope monologue.
January 29, 2010
A highly engaging sleeper.
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| Original Score: 4/4
March 26, 2009
Bad Company is an excellent film which combines wry humor and gritty action with in-depth characterizations of two youths on the lam in the Civil War west.
August 5, 2008
The ironic comical Western prides itself in taking on the Horatio Alger myth.
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| Original Score: B
October 6, 2007
[A] smart, character-driven Western that plays a little like the undercover cop genre.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
January 26, 2006
Benton's first film, a Western good enough to make everything he has done since seem disappointing by comparison.
June 27, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
May 21, 2005
A naturalistic, irreverent and sometimes broadly comic view of a largely ignored aspect of the Civil War gives Bad Company a refreshingly good name.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
February 18, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
October 23, 2004
The movie is built as a series of more-or-less self-contained episodes, and the episodes that work are worth the effort.
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| Original Score: 3/4
March 16, 2004
An easy watch, except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character.
Original Score: 67/100
May 24, 2003
Western addicts will find it refreshingly different from the norm, while its quirky comedy should attract non-fans of the genre.