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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 2002 DVD Release: 11/12/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 57 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Total Copies: 37 Genres: Action, Action Comedy, Odd Couple Film, Spy Comedy

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

Anthony Hopkins - Gaylord Oakes
Chris Rock - Jake Hayes
Chris Rock - Kevin Pope

Joel Schumacher directs Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock in the action comedy Bad Company, which comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in DTS 5.1, while English and French soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital 5.1. Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a making-of featurette that consists primarily of interviews with the cast. This is a decent release from Disney/Buena Vista that will appeal primarily to genre enthusiasts and fans of the two lead actors. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide