Hummingbird (film)


Hummingbird released as Redemption in the U.S. is a 2013 British action drama film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Jason Statham.

Joey is friends with Sister Cristina Agata Buzek, a Polish nun who runs the local soup kitchen, and she helps him with antibiotics for the wounds he received in the fight with the thugs and information on Isabels whereabouts. To deflect suspicion of Damons neighbors he tells them that he is Damons boyfriend. To avoid using any more of Damons money from the debit card Joey gets a job in a Chinese restaurant kitchen. One night at work the management call upon him to help deal with some rowdy diners, his fighting skills bring him to the attention of Mr. Choy Benedict Wong, a senior manager in a London Chinese organized crime syndicate, who hire him as a driver and enforcer, collecting extortion payments and delivering drugs. He saves some of the money he receives and begins to do charitable work, ordering pizzas for the homeless at the soup kitchen and buying gifts for Cristina. The homeless begin calling him Crazy Joe. He finds Dawn Vicky McClure, his ex and mother of his young daughter, and starts giving her money.Joey invites Cristina to dinner at a barbecue in the street behind the Chinese restaurant. Cristina attends, but only to show him a police photo of Isabel, who had been beaten to death and thrown in the river. Joey is enraged, but Cristina is able to calm him, and encourages him to start an honest life. He finds the street thugs who chased him away from Isabel and viciously beats them, interrogating them about Isabels murder, acquiring a rough description of her killer. Joey meets Cristina at an art gallery showing off Damons work, to give her this information to pass on to the police. She gets a bit tipsy, opens up to Joey, and they kiss. She tells him about a ballet ticket she has for the same date as when Damon is due to return October 1st. ........

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