Konterr Brilliant and touching

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

SnoopyStyle Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) was an undercover CIA agent who sacrifice himself for his fellow spy Gaylord Oakes (Anthony Hopkins). In order to maintain the cover identity Michael Turner, Oakes has to recruit Kevin's twin Jake Hayes to pretend to be his brother. Jake is a street smart hustler and very different from his brother. Jake doesn't even know he had a brother and they only have 9 days to negotiate a nuclear weapon deal with villain Adrik Vas (Peter Stormare). There is a terrorist group competing for Vas' nuke and trying to kill him. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Julie (Kerry Washington) is leaving him for Seattle.My one big problem is that this is not funny. It's either a waste of Chris Rock or a miscast for this character. Joel Schumacher just doesn't know how to make funny jokes and Rock can't do it by himself. The movie is better off getting a tough guy to play this seriously. It's an almost functional spy thriller with some passable action. Hopkins and Rock have no chemistry at all. Sometimes the movie has good moments but overall it is not really that good.

blanche-2 Take a talented comic, put him in an old plot, and you've got "Bad Company," a 2002 film also starring Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare, and Gabriel Macht. This film was scheduled for release in late 2001, and because some of it was filled at the World Trade Center, the release was delayed until June of 2002.Officer Oakes (Hopkins) of the CIA is involved in an undercover job dealing with the purchase of nuclear arms when his partner (Rock), who was the man inside, is killed. Operatives find a lookalike, Jake Hayes, a guy who scalps tickets and does about anything he can to make a living. He couldn't be more different from his lookalike, who turns out to be his twin. They were separated in order to be adopted more easily.Jake accepts the assignment to become "Michael Turner" for a lot of money, because he's just been dumped by his girlfriend (Kerry Washington) who is moving away, since Jake hasn't made it so they can get married. He has nine days to become Harvard graduate Kevin Pope, who worked undercover Michael Turner. Problems ensue, one of whom is his brother's girlfriend, Nicole (Garcelle Beauvais).We've seen this film in one form or another a million times. Chris Rock is so talented and funny, however, that he makes it very enjoyable. Anthony Hopkins is completely wasted. Not only that, but he seems to know it.This is a good rental, light, and fun.

xepem-1 Beware, spoilers! Lots of them!Tourist movie, where behind patching with money, all you can really see is lame producer stitches. Then nasty scars too. Story from Peacemaker transferred in Prague, and spiced with initial death of CIA agent who is shot by Serbs. Without him, purchase of post-soviet A-bomb can't be achieved.That agent (Chris Rock) had a twin-brother. They are adopted separately long time ago, so the other rose only to a level of scalper. Then agency (Hopkins) makes copy of a dead brother from a street bum, with all comic twists which that process bears.Dragan Michanovich (Michelle in movie) shows unbelievable hypocrisy, by accepting to pose Rade Sherbegia in this vomit; while in movie Night is dark (from his native Serbian cinematography - Tamna je noc) he sought maximum of pacifism and humanity. Here, he play's French who swindle Russian, and than he himself is played out by Serbs. Ironic, isn't it?Serbs are lead by some Dragan Adyanich, wanted for war crimes. For what else Serb can be wanted?. He dislike USA so much, that for 20 million$ he doesn't open bar, gas station, or warehouse. Like costume is. Instead of silicone boobies or Merk, he buy's a nuke! Then surrender himself to adventure, which is about to change political scene of today…But the most pervert stupidity is final intrusion of that that person (temporarily absent from ICTY in Hague). Scene is so copied from Peacemaker, that is surprise how they are not sued. Reason why they aren't, is only because Peacemaker is also washout photocopy. Whose original is lost, because it is used as toilet paper by critique of 80's. Climax of perversion is smooth flatulence, which is gushing out when Adyanich holding his funeral oration. That is stylistic figure, in capital-realism (opposition to social-realism) known as: psychopathic anti-American sermon of terrorist unaware that he will soon be dead. I quote: Your country grows fat, while people all over the world starve. You stay at home, you watch our blood spilled on television. War reduced to video game. You take sides in conflicts you know nothing about, dictating to other people how they should live…This is supposed to make Pavlov-like synapse, in every kid who hears this or similar speech, automatically branding speaker as Adyanich's clone. (Type of person known to conduct cannibalism of exhausted grannies, rape of pets, etc.).That's why is in vain to impute Hopkins (and alike) as a great actors and persons. They are just incorrigible, unintellectual, covetous droppings. Chauvinistic farce. There is no need to exhaust yourself with thought that you will ever drink coffee with them, so opinion like this can bring you to unpleasant situation.Black for me, please.

xredgarnetx BAD COMPANY is probably the worst spy thriller I have ever seen, and I've seen hundreds of them as a former film reviewer and lifelong movie nut. A CIA veteran played by a sleepwalking Anthony Hopkins must train a schlub played by a very unfunny Chris Rock to pose as an illegal arms buyer in just a few days, and don't ask why. Rock is to purchase a "thermonuclear device in a briefcase." Everything that can go wrong does, but mainly the film is a series of short scenes depicting an aging Hopkins and his crew running around interspersed with scenes of a seemingly endless army of black-garbed assassins trying to rub out Rock -- again, don't ask why. It's simply lazy writing. To give you an idea of how bad this movie is, there is a prolonged fight between one of Hopkins' agents and one of these black-garbed assassins. Problem is, we barely know the agent and have no feeling for him, but the fight goes on at great length as if this CIA guy were the second coming of James Bond. And decent supporting players like Brooke "Crossing Jordan" Smith and Peter "Fargo" Stormare are utterly wasted. What could Joel Schumacher have been thinking? I confess I fell asleep before the big finale. One firefight too many, methinks. I can only hope everyone was blown to kingdom come in the end.