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Having just returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Captain Brad Paxton's (Gary Dourdan) wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action for a daring and deadly operation to save the woman he loves.

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Redemption Day | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Christy Lemire RogerEbert.com This would-be action thriller offers awkward action and no real thrills. Rated: 1/4 Jan 8, 2021 Full Review Redemption Day | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Joe Leydon Variety If "Redemption Day" were any more generic, the first thing you'd see on screen would be a bar code in place of opening credits. Jan 8, 2021 Full Review Redemption Day | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter Proves such a wan, ineffective vehicle that it leaves its star all dressed up with nowhere to go. Jan 7, 2021 Full Review Redemption Day | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Rolando Gallego EscribiendoCine Riddled with stereotypes. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 2/10 Nov 16, 2021 Full Review Redemption Day | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Alejandro Lingenti La Nación (Argentina) A routine format starring an indestructible action hero. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 2/5 Nov 16, 2021 Full Review Redemption Day | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Peter Martin ScreenAnarchy Follows a wan path as it endeavors to craft a compelling narrative, which leaves only a few punchy action sequences to redeem the experience. Rated: 2.0/5.0 Feb 5, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Victor M Trust me this is the worse movie ever produced... Bad story, poor editing 😞 Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/25/24 Full Review Otis Avalon R Sure we all wasted our time watching this piece of garbage but the amount of time and money that must have been wasted making it blows my mind. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/09/23 Full Review Hdjd J Creativity is dead!! Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/04/23 Full Review N Fake action Now deep storyBad acting Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/18/23 Full Review Erroneous B Lazy script (gems like "Shut up woman!" and "I owe you my life"). Far fetched screenplay. Mixed acting quality (you could hammer a nail into the POTUS). Stupid scenes abound (watch for the one where they lose their tail in particular). Overall waste of 90 minutes. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/22 Full Review Audience Member They kidnapped the wrong wife. So this is about a Marine Captain (Gary Dourdan). His archeologist wife (Serinda Swan) travels to Africa to excavate a site on the Moroccan-Algerian border only to promptly get snatched up by Algerian insurgents. It's not standard hostage negotiation policy, but who can stop a Marine from trying to save his wife? Now, this was yet another movie that I went into pretty cold. I knew that it had Andy Garcia in the cast list, but after Passengers, that doesn't exactly mean much. I couldn't get a gauge on if this was a war movie or a Taken situation going off of the plot description. Well, the answer falls somewhere in between the two, but unfortunately, it is highly generic. Now I don't have a lot in the way of positive things to say about Redemption Day. If I had to say something nice about it, I would say Gary Dourdan is trying. You can tell that he thought this was going to be a decent-sized break for him, and for what it's worth, it's cool to see a person of color in the role that would traditionally go to a bulky handsome white man. While he may be getting an A for effort, the rest of the cast, not so much. The acting is a bit shaky, and the story had already mostly lost me before I was out of the first half. There's just not that much happening that is engaging. The script is lackluster, the direction is not terribly competent, and there are no new ideas brought to the table. There's sloppy exposition as this is getting set up, like making Ernie Hudson say, "Look, I'm your father." Not to be insensitive, but the insurgents are just the standard brown villains that you get in every one of these movies of this type, only this time they are from northern Africa instead of the Middle East. They don't have any personality other than to be intimidating, and they don't have an end goal other than to extort money from the U.S. government because a citizen accidentally put a toe on Algerian soil. Redemption Day is not a prime-time film, and it is just barely a B war movie. It is simple enough to follow, but you're not going to care because you have seen it all before. The setup is weak, and when this eventually and inevitably turns into Call of Duty, I was more than ready to cut this off. I do give minor points for Dourdan, but he does not have a lot to work with here. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Hicham Hajji Director Gary Dourdan Brad Paxton Serinda Swan Kate Paxton Martin Donovan Tom Fitzgerald Ernie Hudson Ed Paxton Andy Garcia Ambassador Williams
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Synopsis Having just returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Captain Brad Paxton's (Gary Dourdan) wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action for a daring and deadly operation to save the woman he loves.

Director
Hicham Hajji

Producer
Hicham Hajji, David Zilberberg

Screenwriter
Hicham Hajji, Sam Chouia

Distributor
Saban Films

Production Co
LineDrive Studio, H Films, Redemption Film, Buffalo 8 Productions

Rating
R (Violence and Language)

Genre
Action, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 8, 2021, Limited

Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 12, 2021

Runtime
1h 40m

Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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