As part of its Big Two initiative Star Movies will air two action movies X2: X-Men United and the Anthony Hopkins starrer Bad Company on 20 November and 21 November at 9 pm.
Directed by Bryan Singer and starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellan, X2: X-Men United is the sequel to X- Men. On the other hand, Bad Company tells the story of Veteran CIA agent who must transform sarcastic, street-wise punk Jake Hayes into a sophisticated and savvy spy to replace his murdered identical twin brother.
In X2: X-Men United, when a failed assassination attempt on the life of the President of the United States. Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School is targeted for the crime.
While Jean Grey and Storm try to locate the assassin, Cyclops and Professor X seek answers from their old foe Magneto (Ian McKellan) in his glass cell... Little do they know they're walking into a trap set by the villainous William Stryker, a mysterious governmental figure that figures into Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) secretive past, along with information about the X-Men's operation, supplied by Magneto through a mind-controlling agent.
Bad Company sees Anthony Hopkins playing Gaylord Oakes, a CIA spy attempting along with his partner, Kevin Pope (Chris Rock) trying to secure a suitcase sized with nuclear bomb in Prague from a Russian black marketer.