As long as you're willing to check your brain at the door, this action-thriller starring Kevin Costner is pretty good. "Criminal" opens as London-based CIA operative Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is killed before he can reveal where he as hidden an important asset. CIA head honcho, Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman), approves an experimental medical procedure in which the dead man's memories will be implanted in the brain of hardened convict Jericho Stewart (Costner). Of course, things don't go as planned. Costner, in full bad-ass mode, makes this crackpot premise work, assisted by Tommy Lee Jones as the pioneering surgeon, who's concerned only with the patient's welfare and Gal Gadot as Pope's wife. The dialogue is less than scintillating, but what do you expect from a solid action flick? It's best not to think too hard about what's happening. Just hang on and go along for the ride.
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