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Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Look beyond the generic shell, and this wildly imperfect movie appears to have a rare soul lurking inside it. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: 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. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: Puts an intriguing, intermittently successful spin on the sort of loner Statham so often embodies. Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: A meandering collection of narrative threads tied together by little more than a vague notion of atonement. Read more
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: "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. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Knight seems to want to say something, but it comes out pretty garbled. Read more
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: [Knight] fills his story with too many contrivances - not to mention narrative strands ... Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A flawed but still solid debut. And another strong step forward for Jason Statham, the man who won't stay still. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: 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. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Nothing in "Redemption" quite adds up, including the paranoid hero's insistence that he's being watched by drones. Read more