History Film / Criminal2016

* MultiEthnicName: "Xavier" is a believable Spanish name, as it is the Galician form of the name Javier, but "Heimdahl" is not, instead sounding vaguely Northern European, like a modified version of the Norse deity Heimdall. Whether the man is multi-ethnic himself or simply chose an edgy artistic name for his terrorist activities is never revealed.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Spanish government outlawed Heimdahl because he exposed their corruption, but they are seemingly not working with CIA, and there is virtually no Spanish presence in the film other than Heimdahl himself. This might imply that they are really ineffectual as well as corrupt, but it could also be that they know or expect that Heimdahl will not choose a diminished country like Spain as a target for his nuclear anarchism (maybe wrongfully or maybe not, as he isn't mentioned to have committed any big scale terrorism in his homeland other than leaking info), and are just callously allowing him to ravage the world's major countries because it isn't their problem.

[[caption-width-right:350:''“You hurt me, '''I hurt you worse”''' ''- Jericho]]

''Criminal'' is a 2016 {{Science Fiction}} {{Action|Genre}} {{Thriller}} film directed by Ariel Vromen, and written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg. It stars Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/GalGadot, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/RyanReynolds, Creator/AliceEve, Creator/AntjeTraue and Creator/JordiMolla.

Jericho Stewart (Costner) is an imprisoned criminal whose childhood brain trauma left him with an inability to feel emotions or control his impulses. However, he's taken from custody when London-based CIA agent Bill Pope (Reynolds) is killed in action, as the CIA, led by Quaker Wells (Oldman) needs to find a hacker known as the “Dutchman” who created a wormhole program that would gain access to the worlds nuclear arsenal that he hid, pre-mortem. Jericho is to be the subject of a CIA experiment to graft Pope's brainwaves onto his own. Only his new memories can save the world from Spanish anarchist Xavier Heimdahl (Mollà), who plans to bring destruction to the world.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Spanish government outlawed Heimdahl because he exposed their corruption, but they are seemingly not working with CIA, and there is virtually no Spanish presence in the film other than Heimdahl himself. This might imply they are really ineffectual aside from corrupt, but it could also be that they know or expect that Heimdahl will not choose a diminished country like Spain as a target for his nuclear anarchism (maybe wrongfully or maybe not, as he isn't mentioned to have committed any big scale terrorism in his homeland other than leaking info), and are just callously allowing him to ravage the world's major countries because it isn't their problem.
* {{AntiHero}}: Jericho is a violent criminal who doesn’t have an allegiance to either the CIA or Xavier and will retaliate if either attacks him first, however after getting Bill Pope’s memories and bonding with Jill and Emma he grows to care for them and goes after Xavier and his men when they attack him, abduct them and threaten the world.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Xavier is shown to be a ruthless anarchist who wants to gain control of the United States nuclear arsenal to cause mass destruction. Quaker and the CIA who are trying to get back control of the nukes are not saints either, as they are willing to experiment on people and allow innocent civilians to die in order to get what they want, but they are obviously still heroic in comparison.
* BombThrowingAnarchist: Xavier Heimdahl, who's trying to obtain the Wormhole program, which will give him control of the US's nuclear arsenal to destroy every government in the world.
* ElectricTorture: What Xavier uses on Bill.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Although most of the main characters are American the film is set in London.
* HappilyMarried: Bill and Jill.
* HeelFaceTurn: Jericho makes his complete turn when he's told Jill and Emma's lives aren't important. His response?
-->'''Jericho''': They're important to ''me''.
* HeroAntagonist: Quaker Wells goal is to find the Dutchman’s location before Xavier in order to stop him from getting control of the nuclear codes, but to accomplish that he approves of experimenting on a prisoner and later he deems that Jill and Emma ''his own agent’s widow and daughter'' are expendable when they are being held hostage by Xavier as bait for Jericho.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Bill/Jericho has The Dutchman fix the Wormhole program so that any missile Xavier fired would turn back and target him instead.

* IdiotBall: When Quaker manages to make a deal with Jericho to get him to lead the CIA to the Dutchman, on-route to the safe-house he gets word that the Dutchman may have been sighted at a airport (which is actually a distraction by Heimdahl), instead of pursuing both leads he goes back on the deal and tells his agents to send Jericho back to jail while he pursues the false lead, this backfires when it turns out that it wasn’t the Dutchman and Heimdahl’s goons almost manage to capture Jericho before he escapes again.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Bill gets tortured with a cattle prod by Xavier, then killed after he refused to give up The Dutchman.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Jericho does this first to the guys whose van he steals, later to Xavier’s number one Elsa, beating her to death with a lamp and does this again to one of Xavier’s soldiers using an axe.
* TheSociopath: Jericho, due to brain damage suffered as a child. He doesn't feel hate, love or empathy, leading him to commit a long string of senseless crimes. By the time he gets used as a guinea pig in the film's experiment, he's spent most of his life in prison.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Jericho does this first to the guys whose van he steals, later to Xavier’s number one Elsa, beating her to death with a lamp and does this again to one of Xavier’s soldiers using a hammer.

''Criminal'' is a 2016 {{Science Fiction}} {{Action|Genre}} {{Thriller}} film directed by Ariel Vromen, and written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg. It stars Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/GalGadot, Creator/GaryOldman, Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/RyanReynolds, Creator/AliceEve, Creator/AntjeTraue and Jordi Mollà.

* AdultFear: A stranger coming in your bedroom, restraining you, and then going into your daughter's room, with of course the fear that he'll rape you both. Luckily it turns out he "just" wants money.

* IdiotBall: When Quaker manages to make a deal with Jericho to get him to lead the CIA to the Dutchman, on-route to the safe-house he gets word that the Dutchman may have been sighted at a airport (which is actually a distraction by Heimdahl), instead of pursuing both leads he backs out of the deal and tells his agents to send Jericho back to jail while he pursues the false lead, this backfires when it turns out that it wasn’t the Dutchman and Heimdahl’s goons almost manage to capture Jericho before he escapes.

* IdiotBall: When Quaker manages to make a deal with Jericho to get him to lead the CIA to the Dutchman, on-route to the safe-house he gets word that the Dutchman may have been sighted at a airport (which is actually a distraction by Heimdahl), instead of pursuing both leads he stops retracing Pope’s route via Jericho, backs out of the deal and tells his agents to send Jericho back to jail while he pursues the false lead, this backfires when it turns out that it wasn’t the Dutchman and Heimdahl’s goons almost manage to capture Jericho before he escapes.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Spanish government outlawed Heimdahl because he exposed their corruption, but they are seemingly not working with CIA, and there is virtually no Spanish presence in the film other than Heimdahl himself. This might imply they are really ineffectual aside from corrupt... but it could also be that they know or expect that Heimdahl will not choose a diminished country like Spain as a target for his nuclear anarchism (certainly, he isn't mentioned to have committed any big scale terrorism in his homeland other than leaking info), and are just callously allowing him to ravage the rest of the world because it isn't their problem anymore.

* AdultFear: A stranger coming in your bedroom, restraining you, and then going into your daughter's room, with of course the fear that he'll rape you both. Luckily it turns out he just wants money.
* {{AntiHero}}: Jericho is a violent Criminal who doesn’t have an allegiance to either the CIA or Xavier and will retaliate if either attacks him first, however after getting Bill Pope’s memories and bonding with Jill and Emma he grows to care for them and goes after Xavier and his men when they attack him, abduct them and threaten the world.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Xavier is shown to be a ruthless anarchist who wants to gain control of the United States nuclear Arsenal to cause mass destruction. Quaker and the CIA who are trying to get back control of the nukes are shown to be almost no better than Xavier, as they are willing to experiment on people and allow innocent civilians to die in order to get what they want.

* MultiEthnicName: "Xavier" could be believably Spanish (it is the Galician form of the Castillian name Javier), but "Heimdahl" is not, instead seeming to be a modified version of the Norse deity Heimdall.

* MultiEthnicName: "Xavier" could be believably Spanish (it is the Galician form of the Castillian name Javier), but "Heimdahl" is not, instead sounding vaguely Nordic.

* HeroAntagonist: Quaker Wells goal is to find the Dutchman’s location before Xavier in order to stop him from getting control of the nuclear codes, but to accomplish that he approves of experimenting on a prisoner and later he deems that two innocent civilians, Jill and Emma ''his own agent’s widow and daughter'' as expendable when they are being held hostage by Xavier as bait for Jericho.

* HeroAntagonist: Quaker Wells goal is to find the Dutchman’s location before Xavier in order to stop him from getting control of the nuclear codes, but to accomplish that he approves of experimenting on a prisoner and later he deems that two innocent people, Jill and Emma''his own agent’s widow and daughter'' as expendable when they are being held hostage by Xavier as bait for Jericho.

* HeroAntagonist: Quaker Wells goal is to find the Dutchman’s location before Xavier in order to stop him from getting control of the nuclear codes, but to accomplish that he approves of experimenting on a prisoner and later he deems that two innocent people, Jill and Emma (''his own agent’s widow and daughter'') as expendable when they are being held hostage by Xavier as bait for Jericho.

* TheSociopath: Jericho, due to brain damage suffered as a child. He doesn't feel hate, love and empathy, leading him to commit a long string of senseless crimes. By the time he gets used as a guinea pig in the film's experiment, he's spent most of his life in prison.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Xavier is shown to be a ruthless anarchist who wants to gain control of the United States nuclear Arsenal to cause mass destruction. Quaker and the CIA who are trying to get back control of the nukes are shown to be almost no better than Xavier, as they are willing to experiment on people and allow innocent people to be killed in order to get what they want.

* HeroAntagonist: Quaker Wells goal is to find the Dutchman’s location before Xavier in order to stop him from getting control of the nuclear codes, but to accomplish that he approves of experimenting on a prisoner and later he deems that Jill and Emma’s lives don’t matter when they are being held hostage by Xavier as bait for Jericho (who has a flash drive containing the wormhole program).

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Xavier is shown to be a ruthless anarchist who wants to gain control of the United States nuclear arsenal. Quaker and the CIA who are trying to get back control of the nukes are shown to be almost no better than Xavier, as they are willing to experiment on people and allow innocent people to be killed in order to get what they want.