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

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

| Jun 30, 2013

It's really just an over-blown fashion shoot. Let's hope Jason got to keep the clothes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 28, 2013

This is the film that introduces us to the Stath's sensitive side. If that hasn't put you off, it should.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 28, 2013

Redemption nearly works. It's one of those truly frustrating films in that there are numerous scenes & moments that work but Knight can't quite fashion them into a whole that's not a disappointment. But he comes damn close.

| Original Score: 3.0/5.0 | Jun 28, 2013

Look beyond the generic shell, and this wildly imperfect movie appears to have a rare soul lurking inside it.

| Jun 28, 2013

Nothing in "Redemption" quite adds up, including the paranoid hero's insistence that he's being watched by drones.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 28, 2013

Knight seems to want to say something, but it comes out pretty garbled.

| Original Score: D | Jun 28, 2013

"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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2013

Its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn't add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2013

Like Joey, audiences may suffer post-traumatic stress after this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2013

Statham uses his steely watchfulness and grim demeanor to draw us in. He and the film wind up engaging, even as the script stretches credibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2013

[Knight] fills his story with too many contrivances - not to mention narrative strands ...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 27, 2013

Hummingbird's richly nutty premise grips from moment to moment, and Statham bolsters his reputation as master of the absurdist threat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2013

A meandering collection of narrative threads tied together by little more than a vague notion of atonement.

| Original Score: C | Jun 27, 2013

Jason Statham clearly doesn't just want to be a guy who cracks skulls, but his restrained, grizzled performance isn't enough on its own to justify this moody misfire.

| Jun 27, 2013

'Hummingbird' doesn't always work but wins points for originality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2013

There's a need for redemption here, to be certain, and it has nothing to do with the narrative.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2013

Puts an intriguing, intermittently successful spin on the sort of loner Statham so often embodies.

| Jun 24, 2013

"Redemption" repeatedly looks like it's headed toward one kind of movie -- a "Rambo"-like tale of post-traumatic rage embodied by a muscular anti-hero -- and yet constantly refuses to get there.

| Original Score: B | Jun 24, 2013