Criminal

Criminal

Rating 5 out of 10

Seeing the preview I thought this movie looked interesting.  It's getting pounded by the critics (26% on www.rottentomatoes.com), but critics rarely like action movies like this.  That's what I told myself.  It has an A+ cast.  Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Gal Gadot (the new Wonder Woman) and even that Mexican guy I like from the Prison Break tv series.  It has to be good with that cast.  That's what I told myself.  It is better than the critics gave it but should be left alone until it hits Red Box.

As the movie starts we are following CIA agent Bill Pope (Pretty boy Ryan Reynolds).  He is in downtown London and realizes as he is talking to his lovely wife (Gadot) that he is being followed by bad people and is in trouble.  He is in charge of a computer nerd that has figured out how to control all of the US weapons and want's to sell it to us before those bad guys get to him.  When Pope is killed before he can let his CIA bosses know where he stashed the guy they call in the experimental Dr Franks who can merge his still warm brain cells with the right guy so he can tell them where he is before he blows up the world with our own nukes.  The problem is the only guy it will work on is Jericho (Costner), a worst of the worst criminal in a deep dark prison.

When the brains are merged Jericho does get some of Popes thoughts but he also has many of his own bad thoughts.  Everyone is now after him.  The movie has some decent action yet suffers from too many movie cliches. Jericho only has 48 hours before Popes memories disappear.  The probably should have gone a little lighter on the star power and spent some of that money punching up the script.

I was mildly entertained but would wait for a rental on this one.