Bad Company
TV ClubHouse: archive: Movies Feb-Aug 2002:
Bad Company
Webkitty | Sunday, June 30, 2002 - 09:17 am     Here ya go Owl........ This stared Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock, two unlikly co-stars. (but it works) It starts off in Prague. (beautiful visuals!) The tone of the movie is serious. Chris Rock's character has a twin brother that he doesn't know about, their mother died at birth and they were adopted out to different families and were brought up very differently. His brother is a CIA opprative and his partner is Anthony Hopkins. They are working on a top secret mission to recover a stolen "portible" nuclear weapon that is being sold by a russian mafia guy. The Russian mafia guy sold it from leading terrorist guy who wants to blow up NYC. They need to buy it to keep it out of the hands of the terrorist guy. They give the Russian guy a 1 million down payment, and he will deliver the bomb in 10 days, then he will get another 19 million. Note: I'm bad on details so I might have a few things wrong, anyone else feel free to correct me. Anyway, when they go to leave the meeting, Chris Rock's brother gets killed, but the bad guys don't know it. The CIA finds out about Chris Rock, and they send Antony Hopkins to recruit him to stand in on the final deal. This is were Chris Rock's humor comes in. He is indignant, and he doesn't "try" to be funny, but he is in his own way. The movie doesn't fall apart into a comedy, it keeps to the original story line, but like I said, Chris Rock IS funny in his "indignacy" (that is probably not a word!) if anyone knows what I am trying to say. It follows him in his quest to try and be as much like his brother that he never met so he can complete the mission. There is suspense and action. I haven't seen or read any reviews on this but I think it got overlooked, worth seeing. (I'm terrible at movie reviews, sorry!) |
Theowl | Sunday, June 30, 2002 - 09:27 am     Thanks WK. It sound like a very interesting movie. Wow!! Russian terrorist, what an original concept!! j/k That was a good review WK, I got the gest of the movie. I'll wait for PPV.  |
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