With Bad Company, a comedy thriller that stars the unlikely duo of Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, you takes your critic and you makes your choice. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post observes: "Though not great, it's actually a little better than the dim Sum of All Fears currently flattening Baltimore in theaters across the nation." "Bad Company is often hilarious, thanks to Chris Rock working at full tilt and his odd-couple chemistry with Anthony Hopkins," writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post. Across town, Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News comments: "The title gets it half right: Bad Company is bad, as well as boring, botched and other B-words." And, noting that the film had been postponed following the Sept. 11 attacks, Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times, observes that the film "has the whiff of something gone stale. Though it may have sat on the shelf for a while, this project had gone bad long before it was released." Many of the critical naysayers raise the question, why would Anthony Hopkins have agreed to appear in it? Sam Allis of the Boston Globe is one of them. "We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce," he writes, "because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low. This is an uncommonly bad movie." And if you really want to read a review that represents the sum of all jeers, try this one from Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star: "Bad Company feels like the kind of movie that might have been designed by a marketing software program for MBA studio executives. All concept and no content, overly art directed and artlessly rendered, brilliantly cast and terribly performed, it's the kind of movie that might make you angry if it wasn't so deeply inconsequential."