Detective Knight: Redemption

Detective Knight: Redemption is a good follow-up to the first entry but it's good as a standalone film as well.

The returning characters provide the requisite hooks.

This second in the trilogy is more violent than the first, and they they all seem to get progressively better.

Leaving aside all the shooting, bombing and fighting, Detective Knight: Redemption is a story about channelizing your rage and put it to good use. About characters from both sides of the spectrum pushed over the limit but still not backing up an inch.

A suitably entertaining crime caper, as long as you know what to expect going in.

Again, Willis is the action hero in Detective Knight: Redemption, which should be reason enough for his fans to see it.

The second movie in Willis' farewell action trilogy features even less of its star player this time, and while the tricks and cheats used to film around him sometimes work, they too often don't.

"Redemption” is just as dull and pointless as “Rogue,” adding another chapter to a shapeless, directionless saga jammed through the production process to take advantage of Willis’s diminishing marquee value.

One just hopes The Once and Future John McClane was well-compensated, and that his retirement is as comfortable as he’s earned, even if this is nobody’s idea of “Redemption.”