Bad Guy Kevin Costner Gets a Good-Guy Brain Implant in Action ThrillerCriminal

When traditional law enforcement tactics break , why not move around to delirious skill ? In Criminal , a vicious sociopath ( played by Kevin Costner ) undergoes a procedure that implants a recently at peace CIA agents ’s skill and at least one very of import retentiveness into his brainpower . Sure , that sounds totally reasonable .

Nah . It really sounds totally ridiculous ( and more than a bit Demolition Man - y , as my workfellow Germain Lussier pointed out ) . But sometimes ridiculous is awesome , especially when it comes packaged as an action moving picture starring not just Costner but also Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman ( the JFK reunion I ’ve been dream of ! What , no role for Kevin Bacon ? ) , as well as moonlighting superheroes Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds .

Ariel Vromen , who made well - received Michael Shannon crime drama The Iceman , directs from a script by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg — the duo who daydream up The Rock , another preposterous ( but also awesome ) natural process film with a heavily - hitting hurl . Criminal is due out April 15 .