Bad company 19957/7/2023 That first 45-minutes is heavy on exposition with twists that feel very obvious. If the movie was just that, it would be a big disappointment. What would constitute a "twist" doesn't come off and just looks stylish with good actors slipping out clever dialogue. A lot of the movie seems very one note, on the nose and basic. The film tries to keep its secrets by showing its hold cards at the same time. Perhaps that's the biggest issue with Bad Company. Without these two actors in the lead, I have a hard time imagining folks seeing the film through to the twisty turn ending that makes the film worthwhile. Much of the strength of the film comes from the interplay and chemistry between Fishburne and Barkin. Not bad enough to immediately turn off and keep channel surfing, not amazing enough to be the movie you would immediately recommend to friends, but good enough to leave on with the lights off. Through bouts of insomnia, Bad Company was a frequent midnight companion. But when everyone is betraying one another, it's impossible to know who to trust.īad Company was the sort of middling, better than average espionage thriller that one would find on a premium movie channel late at night. As Crowe and Wells find themselves in bed together in more ways than one, the pair share visions of double-crossing Grimes and running the Toolshed themselves. Shadowed by fellow operative Margaret Wells (Ellen Barkin), Crowe is tasked with any number of illegal activities - including bribing Supreme Court Justice Beach (David Ogden Stiers) into changing his opinion about a case. Blackballed for supposedly failing to deliver a $50,000 bribe in gold, Crowe finds himself in the fringe outskirts of the intelligence community known as the Toolshed lead by the enigmatic Vic Grimes (Frank Langella). Part erotic thriller, part film noir, part spy thriller, Bad Company plays things deceptively simple as it builds towards a fitting conclusion without blowing the game.ĬIA black ops agent Nelson Crowe (Laurence Fishburne) is on the outs with the agency. 1995's Bad Company from director Damian Harris and starring Laurence Fishburne, Ellen Barking, with Frank Langella and Michael Beach is the sort of high-concept material that actually pulls it off. Today - it's a passé and could kill your script before it's even read. Right away it was supposed to put them in a place of anticipation and excitement about what genre crossovers your little yarn would knit together. High-concept used to be the "it" phrase to describe your pitch to any producer.
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