...progresses into an increasingly involving midsection anchored by Statham’s commanding, engrossing performance...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2024

[The film is] incongruous, blending moral soul-searching with Statham’s usual martial arts-laden action.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022

This is a film that wants to be more than a mindless action flick and it tries, desperately, but just can't deliver. A pity, although it does prove your first instinct was right: a British thriller starring Jason Statham is all you need to know.

| Sep 5, 2018

Redemption [is] at once so funny and so profoundly sad.

| Nov 14, 2017

The result is a somewhat messy, solid piece of storytelling that may very well mark a turning point for Jason Statham.

| Original Score: B | Aug 8, 2016

What could have been a film that advances Statham's career proves to be simply more of the same

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2013

One of these days Statham is going to realize that he needs to change things up a bit or get someone to start choosing better material for him. Until then, it seems he's doomed to be stuck in the rut he's dug for himself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2013

When it comes to playing impossibly lethal flint-eyed loners, no one can match Statham. Besides, who else could pull off, when confronted with a blade-wielding assailant, a surreal one-liner like this:'You've got a knife. I've got a spoon.'

| Aug 5, 2013

Jason Statham breaks away only somewhat from his action-hero comfort zone.

| Jul 22, 2013

The main achievement of this joyless mood piece is gutting a Jason Statham potboiler of anything resembling fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 11, 2013

Doesn't quite come together, mashing a variety of plots and issue-based themes into a story that, while pointed, ultimately feels rather pointless.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2013

Testing even my love of Jason Statham, Hummingbird is a fairly terrible showcase for the chrome-domed action star's brand of mayhem.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2013

[A] flawed but ambitious (and rather peculiar) London-set thriller ...

| Jun 30, 2013

Redemption fights against the conventions of the average revenge thriller and thanks to Statham and writer-director Knight, it wins more often than not.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 30, 2013

Has a little more on its mind than a simple serving of beatings. Visually striking and marked by unexpected characterizations, the movie isn't perfect, but it's unusual, acting as a career multivitamin for Statham.

| Original Score: B | Jun 30, 2013

Compelling, if never entirely convincing.

| Jun 30, 2013

...it's when he's quiet that Statham is the most powerfully devastating, like an undetonated bomb in a church square. The promise of violence is its own kind of allure.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 28, 2013

Jason Statham is arguably the leading action star of his generation, but with Redemption, the feature directorial debut from talented screenwriter Steven Knight, he attempts to expand his range for the first time since The Bank Job.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2013

Some of it is hilariously awful, and some is just plain awful. But Statham's attempt to be taken seriously as an actor is honest, at least.

| Jun 28, 2013

Jason Statham takes a darker role than usual in a gritty London drama that never quite seems sure of itself, as writer-turned-director Knight mashes several huge social issues with a hint of action and a rather awkward romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2013