Bad Eggs

2003

Action / Comedy / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 1818 1.8K

corruption undercover agent police

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Plot summary

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.

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Tony Martin

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by stevewest-1

Light hearted tale of police corruption

I watched Bad Eggs with the preconception that it was a mix of serious cop drama and comedy. After watching The Late Show and listening to Martin/Molloy, Tony Martin has come to my attention again through his return to the airwaves on MMM. I am catching up on the self-confessed movie buff's interim works by watching Bad Eggs and reading his book Lolly Scramble.Bob Franklin and Mick Molloy didn't strike me as the two best leading actors for a film, but they perform respectably within the low budget Australian comedy format. The comedy and drama are better integrated than I was expecting, Bad Eggs is basically a tale of two detectives with a capacity for ineptness and clumsiness, who get mixed up in corruption in their own department, the fictional Zero Tolerance Unit of Victoria. There probably actually are individual agencies like this now with a similar lack of transparency, with ASIO recently being expanded and given increased powers. The film gets serious when the two detectives get deeper and deeper in the poo, but the comedic elements return when they strike back with the help of Northey, played by Alan Borough. On the whole Bad Eggs is akin to a film like True Lies on the comedy scale, it is primarily a drama with comedy arising from storyline elements rather than from deliberately inserted jokes. It never manages to excel in any particular area but what was achieved was a film with a professional look, a storyline that maintains interest for the first 90 minutes, and a cast of fairly decent Australian actors and comedians.
Reviewed by refsp 5 / 10

Saaaad

Ok. Sad. Predictable. Not funny. Australian action. I dunno... These are minutes of my life which I will never ever get back.... ever...

sorry.

Reviewed by SootyGrunter 4 / 10

Very Disappointing

[Minor spoilers!!]

I have much respect for Tony Martin, Mick Molloy and Bob Franklin. Tony Martin and Bob Franklin especially so, being, in my opinion, two of the funniest men alive. However, I thought that Bad Eggs was terrible. It had several gags that were extremely funny (Australia's Most Wanted and the 4 colour pen come to mind immediately). But on the whole the movie was not funny and the plot wasn't interesting or clever.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't "understand" this brand of comedy. Bob Franklin's work on Jimeon, Tony Martin's on the Late Show, and even Mick Molloy's "The Mick Molloy Show" were all Australian television moments that I thoroughly enjoyed. Bad Eggs contained only glimpses of this humor and I didn't care for the plot. I guess I was expecting it to be a whole lot funnier than it actually was. I felt this movie didn't carry enough humour to be a comedy, nor was it successful as a crime/thriller/drama. It did neither well, falling somewhere in the middle . . . . mediocrity.

Cmon guys. You should have done much better than that! I was expecting Tony Martin's writing combined with Bob and Mick as the main characters to produce something much better.

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