
Bad Company IMDB
- Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Matthew Marsh
Director:
Joel Schumacher
Categories: Spy Film, Action, Comedy
Rated: PG13
Running Time: 116 minutes
Synopsis
Dignified Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins tries the buddy action-comedy
on for size with this typically slick and bombastic offering from producer
Jerry Bruckheimer. Hopkins stars as Gaylord Oakes, a CIA spy attempting --
along with his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) -- to secure a suitcase-sized
nuclear bomb in Prague from a Russian black marketer (Peter Stormare). Just as
the partners discover that another bidder for the device exists, they are
ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect Oakes. Desperate for the bomb's
owners and their attackers to believe that Pope is still alive so that the deal
can commence in ten days time, Oakes recruits his late partner's long-lost
twin, ticket-scalping chess hustler Jake Hayes (also played by Rock), a
small-time criminal who never knew he had a brother. Offered a sizable payday
and the admiration of his student nurse girlfriend, Hayes agrees to undergo
vigorous training and dangerous situations as he impersonates his brother and
helps Oakes to remove the nuclear threat, but the new partners clash in every
way possible, from personal discipline to musical taste. Meanwhile, the
assassin of the real Kevin Pope sends another cadre of killers after the agent
he believes is still alive. Bad Company co-stars Kerry Washington, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Gabriel
Macht, and Matthew Marsh. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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