Bad Company
A Film Review By Paul Perkins
An Average Film
Well one of the last of the film that got pushed back
because of Sep 11 is out. It is called. Bad Company and like the film
that came out last week called The Sum of all Fears it deals with a
touchy subject: Terrorists. But the film is not as serious as Fears was Bad
Company is more on the action/ comedy side of the ladder.
It stars Anthony Hopkins as a veteran CIA agent Gaylord
Oakes who is undercover with his top agent but. The agent is killed while in
duties and the mission is not finish yet. So Gaylord must find a replacement to
look and fit the part. He has to look like the last agent.
Here comes a streetwise punk Jake Hayes (Chris Rock) who is
the identical twin brother of the agent Kevin Pope. So Gaylord has only 9 days
to change Jake into Kevin and accomplish this mission improbable before having
to negotiate a sensitive nuclear weapon deal.
Bad Company won’t have you talking about the film
like you did in Sum of all Fears. But in some scene you will laugh at
some of the things Chris Rock says. Hopkins and Rock was ok not as great some
other action/comedy team like Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who was perfect in
The Rush Hour films.
In Bad Company you know why each of the characters
is in the film; Anthony is for the drama side of it and has the older audience,
Chris is in for the comedy parts in the film and for the younger audience. Some
screen it works and in some scenes it does not.
Bad Company on a whole is an ok movie it does drag a little
mostly in the first 60 mins; when Chris character is being trained. For the
action fans it mostly the last hour when you see a typical Jerry Bruckheimer
produce movie. You can expect cars blowing up, gunfights and mayhem on the
screen, and if you are into these kinds of films the last hour you will get your
money worth.
© 2002 Paul Perkins