“Criminal Network” (** out of four) was a stylish but empty action melodrama about two brothers (Adam Stars and Joshua Copeland) who take very different paths in life but find themselves bounded by loyalty even as it takes them through the violent underbelly of the London underworld. Co-star Starks also wrote and directed and knows where to position his camera and move his story but it’s a story we have seen numerous and multiple times over the years and is overly derivative. This type of fare was already beginning to show its ware with “Lock, Stock, And 2 Smoking Barrels” over 25 years ago.

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