Unlikely pairing makes for Bad Company

What sells Bad Company is undoubtedly the novelty pairing of distinguished Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins with motor-mouthed comic Chris Rock. Sadly, the duo fail to generate the sparks needed to rescue the lame and predictable plot.

Hopkins plays CIA sophisticate Gaylord Oakes. He is forced to recruit his partner’s twin brother Jake Hayes (Chris Rock) when the former perishes during negotiations for a nuclear weapon.

The problem is that Hayes, a streetwise ticket scalper and hustler, doesn’t even know he has a twin. And now he only has nine days to learn to impersonate his brother and prevent the bomb from falling into the wrong hands.

Being a Jerry Bruckheimer production (Armageddon and Con Air), you can expect the usual high-speed car chases, extensive pyrotechnics and underworld double crosses.

Most likely, you will also experience a sense of déjà vu. I mean, hasn’t the whole chalk and cheese buddy premise been done countless times? And in a far superior fashion, I might add.

Hopkins and Rock share zero chemistry. Their scenes together lack fire and the miscasting is the film’s biggest flaw.