12 Biggest Guilty Pleasure Movies Of 2016

2. Criminal

Inferno Tom Hanks Felicity Jones
Summit Entertainment

Criminal's plot sees a CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) killed in the opening minutes, causing the agency to transplant his memories into a brain damanged death row inmate (Kevin Costner), because brain damage apparently makes it easier to transplant memories. Really.

This sci-fi thriller is totally bonkers yet takes itself dead seriously throughout, and is thoroughly watchable trash as a result.

The sequence in which Costner's character visits a London kebab shop, takes a bite out of someone's food and starts a fight, is a masterwork of surreal beauty and ensures Criminal is ultimately too weird to be irredeemably bad.

In all seriousness, nonsense plotting aside, Costner is actually rather good in this, and puts far more effort in than he probably should have. Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman co-star in slumming paycheck roles to add to the hilarity.

Contributor
Contributor

Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes). General video game, TV and film nut. Occasional sports fan. Full time loon.