At the beginning of 1993, there was no more bankable movie star than Kevin Costner. Dating back to “Les Intouchables” by Brian de Palma “ In 1987, Costner had played in at least a blockbuster each year. He had a serious and a practical installation that remembered Gary Cooper, but he could place a sexy and disturbing turn on the ball if necessary (especially as a receiver of the minor league, Crash Davis in the magistrate of Ron Shelton “Bull Durham”). He was such a winning presence on the screen and as a Hollywood concept in general that his Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences enthusiastically declared his “Dances with the Wolves” the best film of 1990 on the undeniable “Goodfellas” of Martin Scorsese. He also hung the trophy for the best director, which looked like a declaration of principle of the Oscars: let’s make great and refined and morally moral films.

After the success of “The Bodyguard” In the fall of 1992, Costner had everything, and he had reached everything by never walking too far from his wheelhouse. Hollywood and the moviegoers knew what they wanted to cost, and he seemed to give them. It was at this time that we learned that his next film would be “A Perfect World” by Clint Eastwood. The best director of 1990 would be to play for the best director of 1992. Two American icons. Perfect, indeed.

Except that the Eastwood film does not concern exceptionalism; It is a melancholic road film which deals in dark shades of gray. Costner plays a killer who gradually returns to contact with humanity that has been beaten by him by his father or his prison. There is something slowdown and sad in his character, who was quite far from what he had done before at the time that the moviegoers remained away. They didn’t like Costner the Killer.

Costner was reprimanded in the moment, but once he spent the age of 50, he decided to come back on the undesely side. It was not a bad impulse, but in a case, the equipment was horribly unfit for him and the distribution of the stars that joined him in what is now a fortunately forgotten bomb of a film.

In 2007, Kevin Costner played in A serial killer thriller called “Mr. Brooks ”. Written and directed by the “stand by me” script duo by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon, it is a strangely funny and convincing riff on a genre that is stuck in a hyper-conventional rut since the “silence of the lambs of (Because the history of cinema likes to rhyme, it is the film that won the best film and the director between “Dances with Wolves” and “Unforgiven”.) He did not succeed, but he did not flop.

Ariel Vroman’s “criminal”, which has brought in $ 38.8 million worldwide over a budget of $ 31.5 million, has at least lost a piece of money. Take on incredibly hostile criticism, and I think it qualifies like a flop. He features Costner as a condemned man who, due to a damaged frontal lobe, is considered an ideal candidate to receive the very precious memories of a recently killed CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds). Written by the “The Rock” team from Douglas Cook and David Weisberg, the intrigue is incredibly incredible – who apparently tickled Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman and Gal Gadot because they are all in this ridiculous thing.

What was the Heck owned Costner to connect to what ended up being such an insulting film? He wondered the same several times before signing. In a 2016 interview with the Toronto SunCostner admitted: “I refused it two or three times. I said:” I don’t even know why you would come after me for that. “But, when I looked in the mirror, I said to myself:” You are no longer in “Fandango”. When I watched it, I thought: “I can play this guy.

While Costner was amused by his “Hamburger Patty on the Top” Haircut (his worse doing since he tried wrongly to remove Caesar from Steve McQueen in “The Bodyguard”), he should probably listen to his instinct First, the second, and perhaps the third time, it knocked on him to avoid the “criminal”. But, once again, nobody remembers it, which makes it less embarrassment than “3000 miles to Graceland”.