The Movie: Another day, another formulaic, Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action-comedy. Too-talented-for-this Anthony Hopkins is a CIA agent who must buddy up with a New York street hustler (Chris Rock, whose trademark improvisations have been muzzled and rendered humorless), in hopes of recovering a nuclear device in time for the feel-good ending. The protagonists' Men in Black dynamic is so overworked that it barely deserves mentioning, as is the by-the-book direction of Joel Schumacher, who manages to capture every explosion, chase, and ubiquitous crane shot as if he were distracted by a shiny object.

The Disc: One run-through of this DVD and you'll be as bored as Sir Anthony looks throughout. The absence of a commentary track leads one to believe that Schumacher had nothing more to say about his work, perhaps because he's already forgotten this lemon. A bit sweeter are the couple of movie trailers that lead way to a self-congratulatory, behind-the-scenes featurette, In Bad Company: An Inside Look, in which Rock goofily owns up to the fact that this project was attractive largely because of the financial rewards it offers.

-A.H.