adonis98-743-186503 Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity -- transforming into an avenging angel in the process. Redemption or also known as Hummingbird is a slow and grounded action drama that showcase's Jason Statham acting abilities in a role like you've never seen him before. The rest of the Cast does a great job as well and despite some pacing issues or even a weird mix of different genres this was a better film than i remembered. (8/10)

Finfrosk86 After I saw Wild Card, which has some of the most awesome fight-scenes ever, I thought maybe, just maybe this one too has fighting gold in it. But no. Well, it has some fighting, but not nearly the same caliber as Wild Card. (I knew Corey Yuen wasn't involved so I did not expect the violence to be that good, but I hoped)This more of a drama really, but with some action/violence sprinkled in. Actually it's a pretty decent movie. Jason Statham has this screen presence, he is just entertaining to watch. Also his fighting style is very cool.Hummingbird/Redemption doesn't reinvent anything, but it does what it tries to do, pretty well. It has a couple of great moments, but mostly it's OK, you know? Had IMDb had half stars, this would be a 6.5 for me.Overall the movie is entertaining and kind of interesting, but it just lacks a little something something to make it really good.

Chris Meh First, the TL;DR version (questioning why you read reviews in the first place if you need that) The story of this movie was a cool one, Jason Statham is still a really good actor, but that's about it.To put things in perspective: I have always liked Stathams movies quite a bit. But if you expect action packed Transporter-esque movie you are wrong in this one. This movie has more of a tragic character evolvement associated with it. It's not so much about explosions and the violence that is contained in this movie is kept down to a minimum, yet is enough to accurately depict the protagonists situation. The story-line and everything was great. Up until the point at which the nun took a main role in the movie. She kinda pilled the entire experience down for me. Now this might just hold true for the German synch of this movie as I didn't find any English ones but from what I can tell I was, at no point, convinced by the weird character that is build around her, as well as her acting. She is that annoying character every movie has that you don't even wanna see die because you are so annoyed by it being on the screen. The movie in and of itself is solid, without her it would have been great.

Floated2 Similar to many Jason Statham action thrillers, Redemption/Hummingbird is more loosely a typical action film but nonetheless a solid attention seeking slowly paced drama, with several action fight scenes. Statham is able to showcase his acting skills as he plays a tough homeless man seeking a fresh new start from a messy past. What the audience witnesses and what makes the film work is the character development, as we slowly get attached to his character. Along the way, he finds a few close friends such as a helpful nun whom helps him, as we are also suggested that he finds further proof and much needed information from her. Redemption is not a typical action film, as if those watching it simply based on the trailer are expecting that such, they may be very well disappointed. The film broadens into deep and darker territory and it is a joy and pleasure to watch. Redemption not having a wide US release, due to it being a more so UK film, has brought upon the reason why, however the audience does get to view into its further purposes. Filled with great artwork, dialogue and scenery.