Bad Company (2002)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Joel Schumacher

Writers (WGA):

Gary M. Goodman (story) and
David Himmelstein (story) ...

Release Date:

7 June 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller

Tagline:

Two Mismatched Partners. One Messed Up Case!

Plot:

When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Twin Brother | CIA Agent | Terrorist | Train

Cast

Anthony Hopkins	...	Officer Oakes
Chris Rock	...	Jake Hayes / Kevin Pope / Michael Turner
Peter Stormare	...	Adrik Vas
Gabriel Macht	...	Officer Seale
Kerry Washington	...	Julie
Adoni Maropis	...	Jarma / Dragan Henchman #1
Garcelle Beauvais	...	Nicole (as Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon)
Matthew Marsh	...	Dragan Adjanic
Dragan Micanovic	...	Michelle 'The Hammer' Petrov
John Slattery	...	Roland Yates
Brooke Smith	...	Officer Swanson
Daniel Sunjata	...	Officer Carew
DeVone Lawson Jr.	...	Officer Parish
Wills Robbins	...	Officer McCain
Marek Vasut	...	Andre

Also Known As:

Black Sheep (USA) (working title)
Ceská spojka (Czech Republic)
Czech Mate (USA) (working title)
The Double (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality and language.

Runtime:

116 min | Spain:125 min

Country:

USA | Czech Republic

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Malaysia:U | Canada:A (Ontario) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | New Zealand:M | Brazil:12 | Argentina:13 | Peru:14 | Australia:M | Austria:16 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:16 | Mexico:B | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39081) | Iceland:14

Filming Locations:

Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Touchstone Pictures

Trivia:

Originally titled "Black Sheep" until it was discovered that there was already a film with that title, Black Sheep (1996). That film starred David Spade and the late Chris Farley, who both co-starred with Chris Rock on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). Ironically, the new title "Bad Company," is also the name of a 1995 film, Bad Company (1995/I).

Goofs:

Factual errors: The language of the timer of the bomb as well as that of the terrorists at the scene of the countdown is Greek and not Russian.

Quotes:

[playing chess in the park]
Jake Hayes: I'm going to do this. Then you're going to do this. Then I'm going to do this. Now you're going to want to do this, but I'm going to do this. And when you're thinking about doing this, I'm going to do this. And then the game is over. So what say you give me twenty dollars and we save twenty minutes?

Movie Connections:

References Pretty Woman (1990)

Soundtrack:

To Keep This Life

Entertaining but not great!

Chris Rock is hilarious in this film. Anthony Hopkins is good too.

It includes many funny scenes and the action is also good. But the plot it's nothing special at all and the film is not very bad but not very good either. If Chris Rock were not in it, it would be bad. I would rate it a 6/10