Homefront ( Netflix)įor all the flack Sylvester Stallone gets as an actor, a movie star and the headliner of junk like Judge Dredd and Escape Plan, he’s still an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. Steven Knight directs Redemption himself, and it’s a slick production with a handful of fight sequence, but he’s more interested in the characters and their moral quandaries, and Statham acquits himself very well as a dramatic lead who doesn’t (always) rely on his fists. He uses this sudden windfall of shelter and high fashion to enter into a life of crime, pursue justice for past misdeeds, and possibly romance a young nun (Agata Buzek) who isn’t sure what to make of his advances. Statham plays a homeless man who stumbles into a fancy apartment, and discovers that the tenant won’t be back for months. The first two films were the Oscar-nominated Dirty Pretty Things (directed by Stephen Frears) and the Oscar-nominated Eastern Promises (directed by David Cronenberg), and although Redemption is easily the least of this trilogy, it feels like it belongs. It’s the third film from writer Steven Knight to turn London’s criminal element on its ear, and transform obviously commercial genre tropes into serious character-driven stories. Jason Statham took his usual tough guy persona and played it for straight drama in Redemption, an underseen crime thriller that nevertheless represents the best acting (so far) of the actor’s career.
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