The myth of the American West was mostly invented long after the West itself had been settled, civilized and made fit for Disneyland. Movie Westerns are usually romantic fantasies with no connection to a real West that ever existed; we know that, but we like them anyway because the escapism is fun. Sometimes, though, a Western comes along that pretends to be about the West as it really was (…) “Bad Company” is a Western like that (…) The movie is built as a series of more-or-less self-contained episodes, and the episodes that work are worth the effort. — Roger Ebert