Bad Company is a 2002 American action-comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins.

When a mission to retrieve a stolen suitcase bomb goes awry, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Kevin Pope is killed.

When the rival dealers, who are part of a multi-national terrorist organization, learn they cannot detonate the bomb because of the missing codes, they kidnap Julie.

In September 2000, it was announced action-comedy then titled Black Sheep had been greenlit with Jerry Bruckheimer to produce and the script written by professional musician turned screenwrtier Jason Richman in his first studio job.

[4] When questioned about the unusual pairing of leads Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, Bruckheimer stated: We always try and have an interesting and unusual pairing of actors, and this is about as creative as you can get[5]In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Rock said the title change from Black Sheep to Bad Company was to avoid confusion with the 1996 film of the same name.

[9] Bad Company only collected a total of $11 million at the box office in its opening weekend, putting the film in fourth place below The Sum of All Fears, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.

[10] In the United Kingdom, the film made an opening weekend gross of just $593,059, ranking in sixth place behind Scooby-Doo, Minority Report, Spider-Man, Resident Evil and Devdas.

The site's critical consensus states: "Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins fail to generate the sparks necessary to save the movie from a generic and utterly predictable script.

"[19] Roger Ebert remarks in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film "jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time.

"[20] On their review show, Ebert and Richard Roeper gave it two thumbs down,[21] arguing it "might have been considered original, had it been made before 48 Hrs., Lethal Weapon and Rush Hour and every other action movie about a racially mixed pair of partners who initially despise each other, but learn to, well, you know the whole drill.

"[23] David Hunter of The Hollywood Reporter noted the film as having "all the familiar Bruckheimer elements, and Schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the Hopkins/Rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas.