10 Movies From 2016 That Really Shouldn’t Have Been Boring

The pitch meeting for Criminal was presumably the writer sitting down with producers and stating “The story has Ryan Reynolds brain being transplanted into Kevin Costner. Also, Gary Oldman occasionally shows up to yell at him.” The only logical reaction to a pitch like that is to hand the writer a blank cheque, but despite such a fertile b-movie concept, Criminal failed to steal our hearts.

There are occasional chuckles to be had, but most of the movie is a routine thriller with uninspired twists and flat shootouts. Costner is fun, but the rest of the cast are in payday mode – Tommy Lee Jones is all but napping in his scenes – and the Gal Gadot subplot brings everything screeching to a halt in the name of "character development."

For a movie with such a wacky idea, Criminal makes the grave tactical error of trying to keep things grounded, when it should have gone full tilt crazy.