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Redemption Day is a 2021 American action thriller film directed and co-written by Hicham Hajji. The film stars Gary Dourdan, Serinda Swan, Andy García, Martin Donovan, Robert Knepper and Samy Naceri and follows the U.S. Marine who travels to Morocco to rescue his kidnapped wife. [1]
Redemption Day is clearly trying to be something more than the anonymous potboiler that many may initially dismiss it as being -- the problem is that it just doesn't try hard enough to...
Apr 1, 2022 · A potboiler is a literary or artistic work created to be sold, one intended to appeal to the masses or to a patron rather than for higher or ennobling purposes. The underlying metaphor is providing for sustenance, doing what needs to be done to make a living.
Jan 8, 2021 · Time may feel like a flat circle, but the calendar says it’s January, so that means we get shoddy, dumping-ground dreck like the generically titled “Redemption Day.” This would-be action thriller offers awkward action and no real thrills.
A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", [1] which means "to provide one's livelihood." [2]
Jan 23, 2021 · Gary Dourdan (CSI, The First Wives Club) talks about his action film Redemption Day for Saban Films in the exclusive Bleeding Cool interview.
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Jan 23, 2021 · Saban Films' Redemption Day, which stars Gary Dourdan (CSI) checks every box for action war movie cliches, but the occasional one-liners.
