Redemption Day

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.

Creativity is dead!!

Fake action Now deep story Bad acting

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.

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.

No amount of money ever bought a second of time and good Lord I have just wasted 90 minutes of my life on possibly the worst movie I have seen in years.Do yourself a favor and don't bother.

Very very basic movie. Full of plot holes, and ridiculous things that make no sense. For example, dragging a body from behind a vehicle into the line of fire. He was very obvious they did not have a single military liaison to help with this movie. Don't waste your time watching this movie.

Terrible writing, acting, directing. Funny to watch because of how bad it is.

Unfortunately a dumb story. cliched. Dedicated to Islamophobia. Bad representation. How long will these films be shown and money spent on them? Its time is over.

Simply rotten. Too many known actors that are no substitute for good story telling, consistency of the story, useless moralizing, and a mezcla of disconnected story lines. Think of Gigli the flop except this one has shootings left and right. Just Awful.