Hummingbird 2013

Critics score:
48 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Look beyond the generic shell, and this wildly imperfect movie appears to have a rare soul lurking inside it. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn't add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Puts an intriguing, intermittently successful spin on the sort of loner Statham so often embodies. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: A meandering collection of narrative threads tied together by little more than a vague notion of atonement. Read more

Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: "Redemption" doesn't have the chutzpah to let loose and be as dumb as it needs to be, so it instead bores the audience comatose with long stretches of sad-face Statham putzing around an apartment to justify the too-brief bursts of giddy bone-breaking. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Knight seems to want to say something, but it comes out pretty garbled. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: [Knight] fills his story with too many contrivances - not to mention narrative strands ... Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A flawed but still solid debut. And another strong step forward for Jason Statham, the man who won't stay still. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Statham uses his steely watchfulness and grim demeanor to draw us in. He and the film wind up engaging, even as the script stretches credibility. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Nothing in "Redemption" quite adds up, including the paranoid hero's insistence that he's being watched by drones. Read more

Catherine Bray, Time Out: 'Hummingbird' doesn't always work but wins points for originality. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: There's a need for redemption here, to be certain, and it has nothing to do with the narrative. Read more