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Company Business (1991)

Action | 99 minutes
2,74 57 votes

Genre: Action / Thriller

Duration: 99 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Nicholas Meyer

Stars: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Kurtwood Smith

IMDb score: 5,7 (3.858)

Releasedate: 6 September 1991

Company Business plot

"You can't judge a man by the company that keeps him!"

The cold war is over. Ex-CIA agent Sam Boyd (Hackman) joins a cosmetics company. There he focuses - thanks to his practical knowledge - on industrial espionage. He is approached by the CIA. A KGB agent must be accompanied. He also receives 2 million dollars for the ransom of a U2 pilot. The two spies develop sympathy for each other. When they find out they're part of a deadly conspiracy, it's the start of a killer cat-and-mouse game.

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Hackman as a secret agent.

It's as if the role was tailor-made for him, so believably and smoothly it all flows. While the plot is strung together with clichés, following the time-honored traditions of Cold War spy films—naturally, there are scenes in East Berlin, a train escape, the German police officers shouting "Aufmachen" in unison as they climb the stairs, and the denouement in Paris. The Eiffel Tower, of course, overlooking the city.

Besides Hackman, who is truly adept in his role, the rest of the cast is incredibly strong. Kurtwood Smith returns to his familiar role as the bad guy, and the acclaimed dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov unexpectedly delivers a superb performance and provides a fine foil to Hackman. Géraldine Danon adds the necessary local color.

Apparently, director Meyer was utterly dissatisfied with the final result—even to the point of using a word like "catastrophe." This was partly because the script wasn't finished when he began filming, but also because the collaboration between him, Hackman, and Baryshnikov wasn't working. Baryshnikov was equally dissatisfied, refusing to even participate in the film's promotion. Hackman tried to get out of his contract, but served it out anyway, fearing lawsuits. And the film turned out to be one of the studio's biggest flops of 1991.

It's all the more surprising, then, that it turns out to be such a good film after all.

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