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Company Business [1991]

Starring: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn, Daniel von Bargen
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Format: PAL
Released: 02 Feb 2004
RRP: £12.99
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Business as usual - By: Trevor Willsmer, 12 Jan 2008
Here's a game for reallly long car journeys - see how many alternative titles you can remember for this one. At one time or another known as Dinosaurs, Patriots, False Passports & Russian Roulette - & there are a lot more where they came from - with Elliott Gould & Marsha Mason announced in supporting roles (neither is anywhere to be seen in the finished film), Company Business appears to have been re-edited, reshot & retitled more times than anything this side of Heaven's Gate before finallly getting a brief US release to disastrous business.

The scars & indecision don't show too badly; this looks like it was always this naff. Hackman & Baryshnikov are amiable in underwritten roles as the obsolete spys set up by their respective employees when a spy swap goes wrong, but Nicholas Meyer is better at directing architecture than people (the first half-hour features some of Ken Adams best production design of the 90s) & just can't think of an ending. Watchable in a TV-movie sort of way, but nothing more.