Redemption [Includes Digital Copy]

Director: Steven Knight, Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill, Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Joseph Paul Stachura, Steven Night, Paul Webster, Guy Heeley

Overview

Writer/director Steven Knight's Redemption stars Jason Statham as a British Special Forces veteran named Smith who has fallen on very hard times. He's an alcoholic homeless man huddling inside a box on a dingy London alley with a fellow homeless woman when a couple of criminals start harassing the junkies and the destitute. He reverts to his training, subdues the baddies, and makes a run for it, ending up in the home of a wealthy creative type who happens to be in New York for the next eight months. Smith movies in, cleans himself up, and gets a job as a toughman for a local Asian gangster. Haunted by horrific acts he committed while serving in Afghanistan, he spends much of the money he makes now to help fund a local soup kitchen run by Sister Cristina (Agata Buzek). When the woman he was with at the beginning of the movie turns up dead, Smith decides to hunt down the man responsible. Meanwhile, Cristina questions her own faith, confronts her haunted past, and makes Smith contemplate his own violent nature. Redemption is the feature directorial debut for Knight, who had previously scripted Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/2013
UPC:	0031398169734
Original Release:	2013
Rating:	R
Source:	LIONS GAT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	26,020

Special Features

Closed Caption; Redemption: behind the scenes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jason Statham	Joey Jones
Christian Brassington	Actor
Benedict Wong	Actor,Chinese Guy
Vicky McClure	Actor
Agata Buzek	Actor
Siobhan Hewlett	Actor
Ian Pirie	Actor
Dario Marianelli	Composer
Ger Ryan	Actor
Youssef Kerkour	Actor
Anthony Morris	Actor
Victoria Bewick	Actor
Danny Webb	Actor
David Bradley	Actor
Steven Beard	Actor
Sang Lui	Tony
Bruce Wang	Tim
John Killoran	Cop 1
Lillie Buttery	Young Christina
Ed Gaughan	Stan
Sheng-Chien Tsai	Chinese Waiter
Josef Altin	Pizza Delivery Guy
Christopher Logan	Ticket Clerk
Jeff Mirza	Asian Shop Owner
Michelle Lee	Mrs. Choy
Joseph Long	Italian Restaurant Owner
Anna-Maria Everett	Italian Woman
Cesare Taurasi	Corsican
Andrew Ellis	Football Supporter 1
James Bye	Football Supporter 2
Drama	Actor
Lee Asquith-Coe	Actor
Adam Chambers	Actor
Derek Burke	Actor
Marco Neves	Actor
An?bal Silveyra	Actor
Senem Temiz	Actor
Steven Knight	Actor

Technical Credits

Steven Knight

Steven Night

Steven Knight	Screenwriter
Paul Webster	Producer
Guy Heeley	Producer
Stuart Ford	Executive Producer
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones	Executive Producer,Producer
Deepak Nayar	Executive Producer
Joe Wright	Executive Producer,Producer
Tracy Rector	Producer
Mark Appleby	Sound Effects
Nigel Bennett	Sound Effects
John Casali	Sound Effects
Gary Dodkin	Sound Effects
Paul Hanks	Sound Effects
Steven Night	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Redemption
1. Scene 1 [4:44]
2. Scene 2 [3:58]
3. Scene 3 [3:54]
4. Scene 4 [7:04]
5. Scene 5 [5:04]
6. Scene 6 [3:47]
7. Scene 7 [9:39]
8. Scene 8 [8:45]
9. Scene 9 [4:01]
10. Scene 10 [9:30]
11. Scene 11 [6:19]
12. Scene 12 [6:22]
13. Scene 13 [6:30]
14. Scene 14 [4:48]
15. Scene 15 [8:57]
16. Scene 16 [6:43]

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Special Features
Redemption: Behind the Scenes Featurette
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Editorial Reviews

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. While it's not going to lead to any Oscar or BAFTA recognition, it does give viewers the chance to see the charismatic hero kiss a nun. Statham plays a British Special Forces veteran named Smith who has fallen on very hard times. He's an alcoholic homeless man huddling inside a box on a dingy London alley with a fellow homeless woman when a couple of criminals start harassing the junkies and the destitute. He reverts to his training, subdues the baddies, and makes a run for it, ending up in the home of a wealthy creative type who happens to be in New York for the next eight months. Smith movies in, cleans himself up, and gets a job as a toughman for a local Asian gangster. Haunted by horrific acts he committed while serving in Afghanistan, he spends much of the money he makes now to help fund a local soup kitchen run by Sister Cristina (Agata Buzek). When the woman he was with at the beginning of the movie turns up dead, Smith decides to hunt down the man responsible. Meanwhile, Cristina questions her personal faith, confronts her haunted past, and makes Smith contemplate his own violent nature. While we are used to seeing Statham as a rock hard, remorselessly efficient criminal, we've rarely seen him play characters that have the inclination or capacity to talk about how they feel. At one point, Smith confesses to Cristina that he drinks to slow down the killing machine they made. It's a make-or-break moment for the movie, and while he's not going to be mistaken for Brando or De Niro, Statham can deliver a line like that without triggering a giggle response in viewers or sounding like he's asking them to pity his character. Turns out that in dramatic scenes as well as action ones, he's a no-frills-attached, get-the-job-done kind of performer. Steven Knight has carved out a career crafting urban thrillers that offer subtle but pointed commentary about the hard realities of life for those scraping by in the big city. In his scripts for Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises he gave talented directors the blueprint to keep the tension sustained while also keeping an eye on humanity's occasional inhumanity. All those elements are there in Redemption, and his straightforward directing style hits those notes efficiently. Redemption doesn't stick in the memory as well as his collaborations with better directors, but it does indicate he has a baseline skill as a director and could grow as a filmmaker to the point that he may not need the services of such internationally respected names like Stephen Frears and David Cronenberg to say what he wants to say.