With a cast that includes Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones and Gal Gadot, Criminal could overcome its ridiculous premise: that a dead CIA operative’s memories are implanted into an unpredictable and dangerous death-row inmate so a mission can be completed.
How’s that for a ringing endorsement of the movie opening today at the theater near you?
But even if the flick blows (wonder if it’s based on a true story?), at least its promoters have still given us something of value to take away from the project:
Knowledge about whether we, the viewers, are psychopaths.
How do we gain said knowledge? By taking the psychopath quiz.
I can’t wait for the results. A different online quiz informs my IQ surpasses Einstein’s. Of course, he probably lacked conscience and empathy, too.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.