Fresh
Redemption is at its best when it focuses on action, not the after-action reports, and its best is awfully good.
Alessandra Stanley, New York Times
Overview
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Director and cast
- Jon Cassar Director
- Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
- Cherry Jones as President Elect Allison Taylor
- Bob Gunton as Ethan Kanin
- Colm Feore as Henry Taylor
- Jon Voight as Jonas Hodges
- Powers Boothe as President Noah Daniels
- Robert Carlyle as Carl Benton
- Peter MacNicol as Tom Lennox
- Gil Bellows as Frank Tramell
- Hakeem Kae-Kazim as Colonel Ike Dubaku
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Redemption does set some nice, bouncy balls rolling for January.
Gillian Flynn, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
A serviceable although not exceptional place-setter.
Ed Bark, Uncle Barky
Fresh
Redemption didn't so much whet my appetite for the show's full-time return in January as it did remind me of the many problems I had with it the last time it was on the air.
Alan Sepinwall, Newark Star-Ledger
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