Quotes
[
first lines]
Adrik Vas:
Your friend is late.
Michael Turner:
He'll be here.
Adrik Vas:
Yeah, I *do* have other bidders.
Michael Turner:
I personally vouch for this man.
Adrik Vas:
Oh, well I trust you Michael. You see, each degree of separation comes with a degree of uncertainty.
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Soundtracks
"Anything For You (Divine Mill Film Re-Mix)"
Written by Kier Gist, Daguan Youngblood, Jaheim Hoagland, Norman J. Whitfield
Produced by KayGee
Performed by Jaheim featuring Duganz
Jaheim and Duganz appear courtesy of Divine Mill / Warner Bros. Records
Contains a sample of "Let Your Hair Down"
Written by Norman J. Whitfield
Performed by Yvonne Fair
Courtesy of Motown Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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When does a knighted actor collect a paycheck? When he acts benightedly in a cliched spy thriller that is a virtual textbook of Hollywood expectations, right down to the scruffy mid-eastern terrorists and the oversized red digital readout on a nuclear bomb.
Anthony Hopkins plays a CIA veteran who must train a streetwise kid, played by Chris Rock, how to act like a real agent in 9 days. You can guess the outcome; in fact you can guess every scene before it unfolds. Movies like this make me know I couldn't do reviewing for a day job-I'd have to see bombs like this everyday. Did I say bomb again? Did we just have one come to America in `Sum of All Fears'?
I am committed to saying something favorable for all movies if I can. Hopkins is always interesting to watch: he underplays here with a `sang froid' that would make Hannibal Lecter proud. The bad side of `Bad Company' is the bug-eyed, monotone, hysterical Chris Rock, who may have been medicated for this role because I didn't have to cover my ears this time-I just bore up under his boring delivery.
Brooke Smith, who was the captured girl in `Silence of the Lambs', plays Hopkins' partner. `Lambs' this is not.
The film moves rapidly enough for espionage junkies. There, I said 2 good things. The movie still is `bad' company for the serious filmgoer.