Kevin Costner rejected this science fiction failure several times (but starred anyway)

At the beginning of 1993, there was no more financing movie star than Kevin Costner. Returning to “The Untouchables” by Brian de Palma in 1987, Costner had starred at least one box office success every year. He had a seriousness and practical installation that remembered Gary Cooper, but could take a sexy and Orner turn in the ball if necessary (particularly when the minor leagues Davis’s league receptor in the masterful “Bull Durham” by Ron Shelton). It was such a winning presence on the screen and as a concept of Hollywood in general that its academy of arts and scientific sciences classmate its “dances with wolves” the best image of 1990 about the undeniable “Goodfellas” of Martin Scorsese. He also hooked the trophy of the best director, who felt a statement of Oscar’s principle: let’s make the movies be large, sweep and morally vertical.

After the success of “The Bodyguard” in the fall of 1992, Costner had everything, and he had achieved everything by never getting too far from his timonera. Hollywood and the spectators knew what they wanted from Costner, and seemed forced to give it to him. It was just at this time that we knew that his next movie would be “A Perfect World” by Clint Eastwood. The best 1990 director would act for the best director of 1992. Two American icons. Perfect, in fact.

Except that Eastwood’s film is not exceptionalism; It is a Melancholy Road movie that deals with Dark Shades of Gray. Costner plays a murderer who gradually contacts humanity who was defeated by his father or prison. There is something stunted and sad in his character, who was far enough from what he had done before at the time the spectators remained away. They did not like the murderer.

Costner was punished at the time, but once he spent 50 years, he decided to review his non -Cooper side. This was not a bad impulse, but in one case the material was horribly not suitable for him and the cast of stars that joined him in what is now a mercifully forgotten bomb of a film.

In 2007, Kevin Costner starred in a serial killer thriller called “Mr. Brooks.” Written and directed by the Duo of Command Sequences “Stand By Me” by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon, it is a strangely fun and convincing riff in a genre that has been stuck in a hyperconventional routine from Jonathan Demme “The Silence of the LAMBS

“Criminal” by Ariel Vroman, who raised $ 38.8 million worldwide with a budget of $ 31.5 million, at least lost a part of money. Take into account some incredibly hostile criticisms, and I think it qualifies as a failure. It stars Costner as a convict that, because it has a damaged frontal lobe, is considered an ideal candidate to receive highly valuable memories of a recently dead CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds). Written by the “The Rock” team by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg, the plot is surprisingly unlikely, which apparently tickles like Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman and Gal Gadot because everyone is in this ridiculous thing.

What devils did Costner have to sign what ended up being such a vilified film? He wondered the same several times before signing. In a 2016 interview with Toronto SunCostner admitted: “I rejected it two or three times. I said: ‘I don’t even know why you would come after me for this.’ But, when I looked in the mirror, I thought: ‘You are no longer in’ Fandango ‘. When I looked at him , I thought: ‘I can interpret this guy.

While Costner had fun by his hamburger haircut at the top “(his worst” since he was mistakenly tried to achieve Steve’s Caesar McQueen in “The Bodyguard”), he should probably have heard his instinct the first, second , second, second and maybe for the third time he complained to him to avoid “criminal.”