Criminal
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.
Our read · Criminal (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal action · crime · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Criminal
What watching it is actually like.
“You want pulpy sci-fi action with Costner as a violent antihero.”
Skip it tonight — You need coherent plotting or hate memory-swap B-movie premises.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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