Il redentore - Redeemer

(2014) Redeemer (In Spanish with English subtitles) ACTION

Co-written, edited and directed by Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, starring Marko Zaror, he plays the title character "Redeemer" coming to the aid of a local community fisherman, Agustin (Mauricio Diocares) in Chile. As gangsters are after him, we find out later, when they learned he found a bagful of money while he was fishing. At the same time, Agustin's sister, Antonia want to use the money to pay for his son's expensive heart operation, putting the Redeemer's plans on hold. The Redeemer of course, used to have a shady past as viewers see in brief flashbacks shown throughout the movie, as he used to have a proper name as Nicky Pardo and how he got to be called "Redeemer" in the first place. As it is somehow connected to another deadly, ruthless killer, Alacrán nicknamed as "Scorpion" played by José Luís Mósca.

Because the star Marko Zaror, himself is 6'2 that it can be hard to accept him as an actual fighter on film, but there are nicely staged fight scenes mixed with some gun battles.

Ok, first of all: this is big nonsense(!) movie made just for entertaining and I spent 4Eur on prime to see people get beaten and killed by other :)

3 * for that! -1 for cutting best scenes Review: Marko Zaror looks great, he's not Scott Adkins and there is no reach for undisputed series. 2 * for him.

Plot: There is no plot.

Film: Film is quite straight and nothing really happens. Unfortunately Zaror wasn't allowed to say more than like 3 words for 90 min.

Next time: more Zaror, less nothing. +1 * to save this chance

How does one rate this movie...based on choreography and the fight scemes 8.....based on acting 3, script 5, production and cinematography 6, and add that up, it gets a solid 5.....still barely watchable. Oh well

Since Boondock Saints this isn't the first attempt to capture that formula. But this Spanish effort does have something in or rather up its sleeves that other knockoffs probably didn't have: decent stunts and action sequences to support the rather predictable story. Though it does surprise in the end I reckon.

Whatever you think about redemption or if you're religious or not, the movie tries to cover a lot of bases. But never loses focus of what makes it great or at least good. The main actor may not have so say much with words, which may play in his favor, letting his actions speak louder than words. Whether you see him as anti-hero or something of a saint is up to you as the viewer. It's not the only challenge the movie gives you ... the humor is questionable for some I guess, but I did like it

It is what it is.

An action flick, with some backstory.

If you enjoy martial arts, kick some ass, don't worry about the names, style of movies, you'll enjoy this.

The religious element is heavy-handed at times, but, no problem, that's the conflict element of the plot.

Worth the 99 minutes, which is more than I can say for many movies in this vein, or other, more self-righteous, holier-than-thou releases. (See what I did there?)