Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

glassgoddess What a GREAT movie! I think these days movie critics are idiots. They gave this movie a terrible rating. I believe their awful comments were at least partially responsible for the movie's poor box office perforance. Me? I don't think I even blinked from the first scene through the last. I don't care if it was "impossible or "improbable" I was completely entertained. Not to mention an all star cast, that performed to the top of their game. Obviously, I loved it.

Michael Ledo Ryan Reynolds is an over billed CIA wuss who gets killed in the first scene. However his mind is the only one that can save the world from Michael Pitt, "The Dutchman" who has that proverbial Internet thing to launch missiles that has become far too cliché in films. Ryan worked for Zorg (Gary Oldman) who doesn't care if he is dead, he is still going to make him do his job. Bring in Dr. Tommy Lee Jones in not his most convincing role (Oldman and Lee seriously needed to swap roles as did Costner and anybody else). It seems our doctor has never heard of Frankenstein as he puts Reynolds memory into Costner sporting a new Mohawk, who is also the world's biggest sociopath. He is in a penitentiary, and not a CEO.At this point we resort to the standard spy film formula and not so much the Frankenstein formula, although I would have really enjoyed just one "fire bad." In spite of my review, I did find the film mildly entertaining as I do when people get killed by a tough guy.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Martin Bradley A cross between a sci-fi movie and a convoluted CIA thriller, "Criminal" is neither fish nor fowl but a better than average cast, (Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Pitt and an underused Ryan Reynolds), and some first-rate action sequences do go some way towards making up for the huge lapses in credibility; some way, but not enough to make this feel like something out of the Jason Bourne franchise. It's also a bit of a stretch to accept Costner, now 62, as a no-holds-barred action hero even if his over-the-top, cast-against-type performance is hugely entertaining. Also on the plus side, director Ariel Vromen makes excellent use of his London locations though to be fair, this could have been filmed anywhere. It's certainly watchable and Douglas Cook and David Weisberg's script does play on the comic potentials of the situation, though you get the impression that Oldman, Jones and especially Reynolds are only in it for the money.

FilmBuff1994 Criminal is a good movie with a well developed plot and a stellar cast. It's a really interesting story that is almost immediately grabbing as you will find yourself curious as to what will happen next. The all star cast is phenomenal, particularly Kevin Costner in one of his best roles in years. He delivers a very believable, dedicated performance that had me from start to finish. It can be quite cheesy at times, which would be the biggest reason as to why it falls flat. There is a lot of one on one dialogue, particularly between Costner and Gal Gadot, that is clear that the writers went over it once and just left it as it was, never looking back over and trying to make it more real, less cringe inducing. It is also very slow moving. Running at about twenty minutes longer than is necessary, what starts off as a very intriguing plot goes on to become tedious, as it lingers on a lot of plot points and gives more development than we as an audience really wanted. It's entertaining, but in no way groundbreaking. A great cast and thrilling moments, Criminal is riddled with flaws, but it is worth the watch if you are looking for a good crime drama, just do not go out of your way to see it. A murdered operative's memory is implanted in to a criminal in hopes that he will complete his mission. Best Performance: Gary Oldman