Criminal is a convoluted and messy film that rips off Face/Off and The Bourne Identity type of movies.
Young CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is tortured and electrocuted to death in London by a Spanish anarchist who is after a Dutch hacker that Bill is protecting.
The CIA operative Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman) keeps Bill from being brain dead and asks Dr Franks (Tommy Lee Jones) to do an experimental procedure to transfer Bill's memories to a dangerous and violent top security prisoner Jerico Stewart (Kevin Costner) qualified for this medical procedure as he has an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
Jerico seeks out Bill's widow Jillian (Gal Gadot) and his daughter and slowly he gains Bill's memories as well as skills.
There is an all star cast but they are manly wasted. Ryan Reynolds is killed off early into the film. Oldman shouts a lot, Lee Jones just makes a wasted cameo. Costner plays his gruff, unsympathetic character which he has been playing for the last quarter of a century.
The film is really a B film with some naff special effects, choppy editing and sloppy writing.
Young CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is tortured and electrocuted to death in London by a Spanish anarchist who is after a Dutch hacker that Bill is protecting.
The CIA operative Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman) keeps Bill from being brain dead and asks Dr Franks (Tommy Lee Jones) to do an experimental procedure to transfer Bill's memories to a dangerous and violent top security prisoner Jerico Stewart (Kevin Costner) qualified for this medical procedure as he has an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
Jerico seeks out Bill's widow Jillian (Gal Gadot) and his daughter and slowly he gains Bill's memories as well as skills.
There is an all star cast but they are manly wasted. Ryan Reynolds is killed off early into the film. Oldman shouts a lot, Lee Jones just makes a wasted cameo. Costner plays his gruff, unsympathetic character which he has been playing for the last quarter of a century.
The film is really a B film with some naff special effects, choppy editing and sloppy writing.