JASON STATHMAN SHINES AGAIN IN REDEMPTION

 

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RELEASE DATE.: 28TH JUNE 2013 

Can a saintly nun save the soul of a macho thug? Will their mutual 
attraction be consummated? And if it is, will we get to watch? Such 
questions are toyed with clumsily in “Redemption,”
the splashy, scatterbrained directorial debut of Steven Knight, the 
screenwriter of David Cronenberg’s acclaimed crime thriller “Eastern Promises.”

Because that thug is played by the British action automaton Jason Statham, the movie is obliged to include a fair amount of ultraviolence to satisfy that star’s carnivorous fan base. The camera slavers over several gory scuffles in which Mr. Statham’s character, Joey Jones, a homeless drunken lout in London’s neo-Dickensian netherworld, dispatches his enemies three or four at time, using only his fists.

Shortly after returning to London from Afghanistan, where his misadventures as a special forces soldier left him traumatized and subject to hallucinatory flashbacks, he stumbles into a piece of luck. After a street fight he breaks into the elegant apartment of a photographer who he discovers is away for the summer and makes it his temporary home. Assuming the photographer’s identity, Joey dresses in his fancy clothes, cleans up his act and takes a job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant.

His street-fighting skills soon come to light, and he is promoted to a lucrative job as enforcer for a Chinese mobster. Playing Robin Hood, he lavishes Sister Cristina (Agata Buzek), a Polish nun who operates a neighborhood soup kitchen, with ill-gotten riches. Cristina is one of three women who obsess him. The others, barely seen, include the bitterly angry mother of his 9-year-old daughter and a murdered prostitute and friend from the streets whose killer he tracks down.

With its gorgeous panoramic shots of contemporary London and an upscale orchestral soundtrack by Dario Marianelli, “Redemption” is a lot like its antihero in his borrowed wardrobe. But 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.

“Redemption” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for extreme violence, graphic nudity and language.

Redemption

Opens on Friday nationwide.

Written and directed by Steven Knight; director of photography, Chris Menges; edited by Valerio Bonelli; music by Dario Marianelli; production design by Michael Carlin; costumes by Louise Stjernsward; produced by Paul Webster and Guy Heeley; released by Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions and IM Global. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

WITH: Jason Statham (Joey), Agata Buzek (Cristina), Vicky McClure (Dawn), Benedict Wong (Mr. Choy), Ger Ryan (Mother Superior) and Dai Bradley (Billy). 

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