Hummingbird - `Statham lite'

If you know your Jason Statham films, you'll know that he generally runs round either shooting or punching a seemingly never-ending stream of baddies for the entire ninety minutes.

Here, however, he goes for a different approach. `Hummingbird' is the `diet' version of his films. Instead of the whole ninety minutes being taken up with him whacking people, the violence only lasts for a few (well dispersed) minutes throughout the whole film. For the rest of it, it does his best at acting.

And, whether he succeeds or not will largely depend on how much you like him in the first place. He's not going to win any Oscars, but he does his best to portray a bad man who's doing the only thing he knows while, at the same time, trying to make amends. If you like him, you'll probably like this. If you don't like him, this won't go far to win you over to his way of film-making.

Also, know what you're getting. Like I say, the action isn't really there, so, if you're a fan of his action movies and are expecting something like Crank or the Transporter here, you'll leave disappointed.

However, as a fan of `The Stath' I thought he was pretty good in this. He plays a gangster who falls in love with a nun (yes, seriously) and I found their relationship pretty compelling (and their relationship is basically what this whole film is about). So, I was left happy at the end of the movie.
So, know what you're getting - no electrocuting tongue or wiping out hordes of bad guys, just a film about redemption (which I believe is the movie's other title in America).

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that