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- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 53 m
- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 53 m
Summary In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate (Kevin Costner) in hopes that he will complete the operative’s mission.
Directed By: Ariel Vromen
Written By: Douglas Cook, David Weisberg
- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 53 m
- 2016
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 53 m
Criminal
36
7.9
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Summary In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate (Kevin Costner) in hopes that he will complete the operative’s mission.
Directed By: Ariel Vromen
Written By: Douglas Cook, David Weisberg
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
36
11% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
56% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
36
11% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
56% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
As a race-against-time, Jason Bourne-inspired adrenaline cocktail, Criminal offers a couple of hours of popcorn-munching entertainment.
Half science-fiction tale, half espionage thriller, it's a pleasantly far-fetched endeavor that moves along so briskly that it leaves no time to consider its implausibilities, which are many.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 267 User Ratings
7.9
72% Positive
192 Ratings
192 Ratings
19% Mixed
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
9% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 267 User Ratings
7.9
72% Positive
192 Ratings
192 Ratings
19% Mixed
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
9% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
This movie was way better than the critics are saying! I don't know what movie they are watching but it's definitely not the one I just watched. After the movie was over I literally jumped online to see if there was going to be a Criminal 2, that's how much I liked it. And that's when I saw that it didn't do so well in theaters and it's probably cause of these stupid critic's telling people not to go watch it. That's why I NEVER even look at the critics scores or what they are saying about a movie, cause they are all crap! The ONLY reason that I'm writing a review on this one is to get the ratings up, hoping that they do a sequel. I know that probably won't happen, but at least I tried. I think Kevin Costner was great in this film. He played that role perfectly, and he made me laugh several times. They should really make a Criminal 2.....
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There is a reason why the "professional" reviews are so low and the userscore is so high. Watched this movie and I honestly got emotional, never happens to me. This movis is 10/10 without a doubt. The only stupid thing is the chose a poor "bad hacker" actor. That is all. This is Kevin Costner's best movie since Dances with Wolves, without a doubt.
By the way, I feel so strongly about what I just said that this is my first review ever.
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Criminal, with its criminally lazy title, is mostly Costner's to growl and scowl his way through.
Quick, what do you call it when a movie takes both of the year’s biggest breakout action stars and wastes them in a bad Kevin Costner movie? Criminal.
Criminal’s story moves like a fat cow. Costner and Oldman’s characters are sluggishly chasing after — irony alert! — a big black duffel back full of $100 bills, hidden behind a stack of George Orwell books.
When great actors meet a misguided script, the results can be hilarious. And so it proves with Criminal, a nutso mash-up of The Bourne Identity and The Man with Two Brains which, despite a laughable plot and ridiculous dialogue, somehow managed to attract Kevin Costner to the lead role, with support from Ryan Reynolds, Tommy Lee Jones, new Wonder Woman Gal Gadot and even Gary Oldman (who really needs to have a word with his agent after this and Child 44).
This is a pretty decent sci-fi thriller film with a good cast, set in London. There are some scenes with quite bloody violence and the suspense is pretty good. The plot is a little unlikely, suffice to say but there are some interesting parts to it. Its a reasonably good watch, a mix of sci-fi and thriller, with action elements too. There are worse films, there are better. It's not something likely to stay with you for any particular length of time, so I wouldn't recommend it as such, no.
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A man with the two minds!
This is a very familiar theme, but a different format and gives a different scientific excuse to execute the story. It is kind of 'Face/off' and 'Self/less' meets the 'Hardcore Henry'. It has some decent stunt sequences, but most of the film was just running and chasing around. And then there's a youngster whose involvement was the centre of the narration.
It all begins when an American secret agent was killed before completing his mission in the London. The important data from his brain were transmitted to a prison serving convict and then after the surgery he goes loose. So the man hunt begins against the running out of the time where the original mission needs to be accomplished. How the rest of the story shapes up were a fast paced action-thriller.
Something I don't like in the todays films are the open ending keeping in mind a sequel. This was an average box office film, but they might make another film. Wonderful cast, though. There are too many big names and everybody did the brief roles, except Kevin Costner in the main character, a tough one. But I did not know it was his film till I watch. In the poster he looked like somebody else. Though he did well along with the others, particularly Gal Gadot who I saw recently as Wonder Woman and now as an ordinary wife. A swift pace, but the story was nothing, overly depended on the star value as well as the stunts and the technical quality. Overall film was okay kind, partially entertaining, because of the performances.
6/10
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Incredibly predictable movie complete with Hollywood version of annoying, cloying little girl pleading to the better nature of the murderous beast.. barf
The only thing good about it and what I suspect is why the critics disliked it, is that the extreme leftist globalist terrorist gets defeated and gets his comeuppance . Funny how I'm beginning to see a pattern if when there is a huge disparity between what critics think is so wonderful and what the actual public despises. Just look at the Cuties reviews and that should tell you all you need to know. It was a terrible movie in spite of all of the wasted talent on the screen. Ryan Reynolds did well to die early in this polished turd of a movie. Critics are really showing how politicized their reviews have become. It's a wonder that anyone listens to them anymore because all they are in present day is an extension of the public relations arm of Chinese Communist China and the cowering sycophants of Hollywood.
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Wow what a opportunity missed. This movie had a lot going for it from its cast and a interesting story which was kinda like "Face Off". But the script was absolutely dreadful. The performances are the only reason why this movie wasn't absolutely terrible.
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Production Company
Summit Entertainment,
BenderSpink,
Campbell Grobman Films,
Criminal Productions,
Fipex Holding,
Millennium Films
Release Date Apr 15, 2016
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating R
Tagline The CIA's last hope is in the mind of a criminal
