Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
"Redemption" doesn't have the chutzpah to let loose and be as dumb as it needs to be, so it instead bores the audience comatose with long stretches of sad-face Statham putzing around an apartment to justify the too-brief bursts of giddy bone-breaking.
– Barbara VanDenburgh,
Arizona Republic,
27 Jun 2013
fresh:
A flawed but still solid debut. And another strong step forward for Jason Statham, the man who won't stay still.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
28 Jun 2013
rotten:
Knight seems to want to say something, but it comes out pretty garbled.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
28 Jun 2013
rotten:
Nothing in "Redemption" quite adds up, including the paranoid hero's insistence that he's being watched by drones.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
28 Jun 2013
fresh:
Look beyond the generic shell, and this wildly imperfect movie appears to have a rare soul lurking inside it.