Simon West is the director behind action hits like Con-Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and The Expendables 2. In 2025, he returns with Old Guy, an action comedy about an aging hitman portrayed by Christoph Waltz.
What could have been a smart, witty and timely exploration of middle-class desire and consumerism, ideas of utopia, environmentalism and our impact on the earth, turned out to be the fatigued and dull journey of a guy finding enlightenment via the oppression of others.
