don ( the dragon ) wilson and cynthia rothrock and sam j. jones and richard norton and chris penn and james russo be ultimately waste in this failed cop drama which find wilson a a disgraced cop who end up switch alliance to a mobster ( play well by penn ) after wilson be out of work due to a mission that go awry and cost the life of one of his teammate . redemption prove that don wilson be no longer the fierce martial artist that rule the low budget martial art scene in the bloodfist movie and in fact wilson have soften his approach and have try to use his typically wooden presence to make the stretch a a corrupt cop . wilson be somewhat effective in his performance although he end up be too sympathetic and the movie need an actor who isn not so goody goody . chris penn and james russo bring credibility to their performance and come off rather likable . the problem be that penn and russo have such little screen time that the movie have no impact outside of their sequence . richard norton and cynthia rothrock and sam j. jones be completely waste in role that could have be populate with wallpaper for all the affect they have . plus there be hardly any martial art fireworks one would expect from such an ensemble . indeed one question the approach take with redemption and since it aim for a police drama like cop land but end up more like a hack version of clichés that repeat over and over again . the action sequence which would normally bail out the movie and be unexciting and stilted . also the movie have a deadly dull subplot involve wilson and a high class call girl which just consistently slow the movie down and movie like redemption need first of all flesh out character and lot of screen time for the important character to the plot and however because the movie treat the main story like an afterthought the movie fail on it own ambition and satisfy no one in the process . half out of 4 ( poor ) .