Synopsis
Once a cop... always a cop.
A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
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Redemption
Cast
Don Wilson Chris Penn James Russo Cynthia Rothrock Richard Norton Randy Brooks Carrie Stevens Gerald Okamura Eric Lee Chuck Borden Kevin Knotts Khrystyne Haje Brad Bartram Eddie Mui Peter Cunningham Nikki Bokal David DeFalco Steven Vincent Leigh Dwayne Winstead Philip Ursino Steffiana De La Cruz Jaime Anstead Jeff Centauri Pamela Christie Nicolas Read Michael R. Thayer Edwin Villa Sam J. Jones
Director
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Cinematography
Executive Producers
Art Direction
Stunts
Cole S. McKay Chuck Borden Caryn Mower Michael R. Thayer Jeff Centauri Bret Davidson Kelly Hirano Art Camacho
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Language
Alternative Titles
Super Cop in L.A., Redemption: Un flic en enfer, Al límite de la ley, Возмездие, Vykoupení
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USA
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USA
28 May 2002
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Starring - Female 4 Front: Kickass Rothrock
Not a Cynthia Rothrock film, as she disappears like 15 minutes into the film. Dom Wilson is not particularly terrible, but he is not the most charming or interesting protagonist. I never cared about his struggles or anything. The story is trite and dull. The action is almost non-existent. The hand-held, shaky camerawork got annoying very quickly. It all plays and feels very cheap.
All in all, not worth your time.
Starring - Female 4 Front: Kickass Rothrock
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Redemption opens with Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Richard Norton selling ice cream out of a van, as the most hilariously unprepared undercover cop sits in on a drug deal. That scene is such bizarre gold, and with a cast like this movie has, my hopes were raised.
The dashing of said hopes took a bit longer.
It was during the first major shootout, when I realized that we were apparently in Art Camacho's "shaky-as-fuck-cam" phase, that I realized what this was going to be: a massive amount of wasted potential.
Don's a cop, then he's not a cop, then he's working for Chris Penn who's being squeezed by Eddie Mui's gang. Mui is the best thing in the movie,…
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I know this is an incredibly loaded statement, but from the bottom of my heart, it's genuinely true. This movie contains the worst action scene I've ever witnessed. Ever.
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* Don’t hire DTV action stars and put them in a drama.
* Don’t kill off Cynthia Rothrock 15 minutes into your movie.
* Don’t put one of the worst filmed shootouts I’ve ever seen a few seconds after killing off Cynthia Rothrock.
* Don’t hire a gorgeous Playboy Playmate to play a hooker that doesn’t get naked (unless she just didn’t want to… that’s fine).
* Don’t do any of the numerous other things this colossal disappointment gets wrong. -
Maybe the only movie I've ever seen that has two "You don't have the guts to shoot me! Shoot--BANG!" scenes happen in quick succession.
Bog standard cop drama featuring Don ' The Dragon' Wilson as a disgraced cop who quits the force, dates a stripper, and attempts to buy a house. Cynthia Rothrock and Richard Norton show up, but leave early after a few halfhearted kicks. Chris Penn goes on a long racist rant and is shot in the head. Director Art Camacho is an ace stunt guy that's worked on a lot of great projects, but you wouldn't know it from his "Shake the camera and throw punches!" style here. Comacho's a long way from his solid Gary Daniel's PM join RECOIL. He would go on to direct HALF PAST DEAD 2.
Will I throw this in the GET RID OF/DONATE pile? Yes.
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Hätte der Avengers der B-Movie Klopper Kandidaten werden können. Gereicht hat es aber nur für ein Mittelmäßiges Cop Drama.
Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Chris Penn und Sam J. Jones klingt eigentlich nach einer ordentlichen Darsteller Kombi. Problem ist nur Don Wilson als Hauptdarsteller funktioniert einfach nicht. Die Hälfte von denen kommt aber leider nur selten vor.
Bei der Action oder Kämpfen reicht es nicht über die Durchschnittsware heraus. Auf einen richtigen Knall wartet man vergebens.
Die Story plätschert so vor sich hin wirkliche Höhepunkt gibt es nicht. Muss auch gestehen, dass ich 99 % wieder verdrängt habe.
Tja Fans der Darsteller werden damit wohl noch am meisten anfangen können.
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People like to think that shaky cam wasn’t really a thing until the Bourne films came along. But, as this movie can testify to, shaky cam was alive and well before The Bourne Supremacy came out (there’s an early shootout scene in this that is nearly incomprehensible to watch).
Also, out of all the films I’ve seen of hers thus far, Redemption might take the cake for the most criminal misuse of Cynthia Rothrock yet.
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Never a good sign when a Don "The Dragon" Wilson film is only available on some random person's YouTube channel and not, like, the movie dumps known as Tubi.
This is almost impressively bad! But, then again, nah, it's just really actually bad. The shootout scene with Cynthia Rothrock is, no kidding, one of the worst things I've ever seen and i watch shit movies almost exclusively. the scenes set in the "club" are so clearly just shot in a Methodist church basement. even Don "The Dragon" Wilson taking off his shirt doesn't excite me here like it usually does.
Garbage! this is garbage.
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there's a scene where there's some water stains on an acoustic tile ceiling. this movie is kinda like that: dull and you find yourself staring at it for too long.
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This movie has frequent starring together martial arts star Cynthia Rothrock and Don Wilson, but this time Cynthia brought in her frequent co-star Richard Norton. The is a couple fun action sequences in it but there is quite a bit slow moments in this and an under use of the three martial artists.
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Goddamn, Don "The Dragon" Wilson cannot act. His delivery is always so weird. Everyone's delivery in this film was weird and off as fuck in fact. It's not helped by the script which has some truly bizarre dialogue exchanges. The movie is very bad at showing progression of time, as far as I could tell, Don got framed up, fire from the police force, became and alcoholic, and started hanging out with hookers and working for the mob in the span of 24 hours and became their top enforcer by the end of the week. The camerawork during the gunfights is fucking absurd, tons of quick edits and bad shaky cam for what is just guys shooting from cover and…
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some of the finest background dancing i've ever seen committed to film