The mission is in the memories.|Apr. 07, 2016|United Kingdom|113 Min.|R
Genre: Action;Crime;Science;Fiction
Description: In the 2016 movie *Criminal*, Xavier Heimdahl, a Spanish industrialist turned anarchist, enlists his associate, Jan Strook, also known as “the Dutchman,” to develop a wormhole program capable of bypassing all computer codes protecting the world’s nuclear defense systems. Panicked, the Dutchman attempts to hand over this secret to CIA agent Bill Pope. Despite Pope successfully securing the Dutchman in a safe house and retrieving the payment, Heimdahl’s men capture and torture Pope to death before he can reveal the Dutchman’s location.
Desperate to locate the Dutchman, Pope’s supervisor, Quaker Wells, reaches out to Dr. Micah Franks, who has pioneered an experimental procedure to transfer the memories of a deceased person into a living individual. Dr. Franks suggests implanting Pope’s memories into Jerico Stewart, a convicted criminal with frontal lobe damage caused by childhood abuse, rendering him a sociopath.
Following the procedure, Jerico escapes custody, fakes his death, and heads to Pope’s house, where he takes Pope’s widow, Jillian, hostage while searching for the money. Over time, Jerico begins experiencing fragmented memories of Pope’s past but only uncovers that the money was hidden behind a bookshelf, leaving the Dutchman’s location still unknown.
Meanwhile, the CIA discovers that the Dutchman plans to sell the program to the Russians, believing the CIA has betrayed him. They track down Jerico after he uses Pope’s CIA codes to contact Dr. Franks for medication. As Jerico starts developing emotions and drawing on Pope’s memories, he retraces Pope’s steps to find the Dutchman. Meanwhile, Heimdahl sets a distraction at the airport, drawing Wells’ attention, while his accomplice, Elsa, attempts to capture Jerico. She kills his CIA guards, but Jerico escapes by driving a taxi off a bridge.
The film weaves a thrilling narrative of suspense, memory, and moral transformation as Jerico navigates the dangerous world of espionage and nuclear warfare.
Cast director: Ariel Vromen
Cast actor: Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Gal Gadot, Alice Eve, Michael Pitt, Jordi Mollà, Antje Traue, Scott Adkins
Original name: Criminal