Each talented actor had a potentially interesting arc to work with, but the actual execution of the film gives the audience very little to chew on and they end up coming out as flat, one-dimensional characters. The antagonists in Redeeming Love include Eric Dane’s Duke and Famke Janssen’s Duchess. The way in which this couple’s story unfolds feels incredibly stiff, and it operates in a way that both takes away the power from the female protagonist throughout the film, and also lacks enough depth to allow audiences to buy into why Michael is the one at the center of the narrative and deserves our (and her) attention. This is until she meets Michael Hosea, who falls in love with her at first sight and vows to cherish her for the woman she is and to marry her in a “taking her away from all this”-type gesture. Redeeming Love introduces us to Angel, a woman who was sold into prostitution as a child, and as she has grown into adulthood she has gotten used to be looked at as a commodity. Redeeming Love is not only incredibly boring, it’s void of allure. This is not to say that the director cannot take on a sweeping romance, but Redeeming Love is not anywhere close to one.

Caruso – a surprising voice behind the material given his thriller-heavy filmography including films such as Disturbia, Taking Lives and Eagle Eye.

The screenplay was co-written by Francine Rivers and D.J. Redeeming Love is loosely inspired by The Bible’s Book of Hosea, the narrative transplanted to take place in the 1850s amid the California Gold Rush.

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