Bad Company (2002)

Bad Company (2002, USA/CZE) C-116m. SCOPE ** D: Joel Schumacher. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Matthew Marsh, Gabriel Macht, Peter Stormare. Another lame-brained Hollywood concoction that somehow stays afloat because of competent direction. After losing his CIA colleague in a shoot-out, Hopkins turns to that man's twin brother (Rock), who has to function as a stand-in to make a major weapons deal (and subsequent bust) work. The problem is that the twins are completely different, and Hopkins has nine days to transform a street-smart hustler into an educated upper-class gentleman. Rock has some very funny lines, but script is improbable (to say the least) and action thriller becomes ludicrously overlong.


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