24: Redemption (2008, TV movie) or, Bauer in Africa!

6/13/2018

24: Redemption (2008, TV movie) or, Bauer in Africa!

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+ Best TV movie of the Year

Beloved TV action hero Jack Bauer finds himself on the dark continent at sundown on this dark and gritty poster for Jon Cassar's 24: Redemption

24: Redemption is a TV movie written by Howard Gordon (Homeland (2014-19)) and Tari (Forsaken (2015)) and directed by Jon Cassar (Nancy Drew (1995, TV-series)), based on the great action TV-series 24 (2001-10) by Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow (La Femme Nikita (1997-01), both). It is the series' only TV movie, set between season 6 and season 7.

Exiled counter-terrorist agent-hero Jack Bauer helps a dear old colleague/friend in an orphanage in an unsettled African country, where an unscrupulous rebel militia is armed from a shady American and stage a coup!

24: Redemption takes a radical step in a new direction from the series' normal battleground by taking place in Africa, (Bauer usually combats terrorism in Southern California), and the team behind the film deserve credit for actually going to Africa to shoot and feature African talent. The film has suspense and emotions rolling, and besides Kiefer Sutherland (Melancholia (2011)), who remains solid as Bauer, Robert Carlyle (Dead Fish (2005)) is a welcome addition; as is an evil Jon Voight (JL Ranch (2016)), cynical Powers Boothe (Deadwood (2004-06)), Cherry Jones (Mother and Child (2009)) as a Hillary Clinton-like newly elected first female US president, and in the Africa scenes Isaach De Bankolé (The Unit (2006, TV-series)) and Tony Todd (Chuck (2007-11)) light up the screen.
There are no major surprises in the content or execution here, but 24: Redemption has a handsome scope for a TV movie, and it wets the audience's appetite for more 24!

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Cost: Unknown
Box office: None - TV movie
= Uncertain - but a ratings hit
[24: Redemption premiered 23 November on Fox in North America (with the DVD release two days later) and runs 89 minutes (an extended 102 minute cut was later released). The film was conceptualized in order for Bauer to stay with his audience despite the 2007-08 writers' strike in the US, which delayed the 7th season. Sutherland has stated that the film is inspired by the Clinton administration's passive reaction to the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Recreating an African environment in California proved too difficult, and therefore shooting was set in Africa: Shooting took place in Cape Town, South Africa and in Los Angeles, California from June - July 2008. The film was Fox's second most viewed show of the week of its release (behind House (2004-12)) and hijacked 12.1 mil. US viewers. It was the night's highest-rated scripted show and the third most viewed of the 8-11 PM spot overall. It was nominated for a Golden Globe and 5 Emmys. Cassar returned to direct several episodes of 24's season 7. Sutherland did voice performances in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) and returned as Bauer in 24 season 7 in January 2009. 24,770 IMDb users have given 24: Redemption a 7.5/10 average rating.]

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