The fights ... become a bit repetitive. These wouldn't matter as much if "Redeemer" had a distinct personality beyond the occasional flash from the villains.

Unfortunately for English speakers, nothing here is lost in translation. Everything is exactly as lame as it sounds.

Though Chilean western/martial-arts hybrid Redeemer may stall whenever it's not in ass-kicking gear, leading man Marko Zaror is charming enough to make you want to overlook his latest vehicle's humorless posturing.

This is a standard action/martial arts film with some good choreography and cinematography, surrounded and packaged in a barebones weak storyline. Still, it’s better than more ambitious fiction films.