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Tony Bogard
Greg Ellwand
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Review 1DiscussionA review by John Chard
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Written by John Chard on Sun Apr 05 2015
Red Light - Green Light
If solely judged on Tookie Williams during his prison years, Redemption is a cracker-jack piece of film. It drives from the heart a sincerity that here was a man, that basically unleashed gangland hell on America, who desperately craved redemption from his prison cell. He strives to do good, to help communities by way of education in book and oration form, but is the film heavily biased towards the redemptive angle? Is the monster side of Williams soft soaped? Sadly yes it is.
We don't need to see continual violence thrust in our faces to know Williams was a very b...
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