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Despite the valiant efforts of a game and talented cast, Criminal has little to offer beyond the bare minimum expected by the most undemanding of genre enthusiasts. Read critic reviews
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CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) dies while traveling to a secret location to meet a hacker who can launch missiles at will. Desperate to find his whereabouts, officials turn to an experimental neurosurgeon who can transfer memories from one brain to another. The guinea pig for the procedure is Jerico Stewart (Kevin Costner), a violent and dangerous death-row inmate. Now gifted with Pope's skills and knowledge, Stewart must race against time to stop a sinister international conspiracy.
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Rating: R (Strong Violence|Language Throughout)
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Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller, Sci-fi
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Original Language: English
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Director: Ariel Vromen
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Producer: J.C. Spink, Jake Weiner, Matthew O'Toole, Mark Gill, Christa Campbell
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Writer: Douglas Cook, David Weisberg
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $14.7M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Lionsgate Films
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Production Co: Summit Entertainment, Campbell Grobman Films, Benderspink
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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Criminal is a gritty spy thriller with a sci-fi edge. When a CIA agent is killed during an op to stop a terrorist from getting a computer program that can hack a country's nuclear defense codes an experimental procedure is done to transfer his memories to someone else; a medically compatible death-row inmate who begins to integrate the memories and eventual attempts to complete the mission. Featuring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, the film has an impressive cast. And the action scenes are intense and exciting. But the writing is rather weak, and doesn't do a very good job at selling the believability of the concept or the plot. Also, the characters are all pretty much generic stereotypes. Yet for a formulaic action-film, Criminal is entertaining and provides a number of thrilling fight and chase sequences.
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moments of goodness mostly washed out by poor execution
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http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/criminal-dir-ariel-vromen-2016-i-loved.html
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Despite some glaring inaccuracies about how British people speak I actually enjoyed this solely to see Kevin Costner be the bad guy. Sadly though, something of a waste of the talented cast on offer.
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