---
name: "Roel Reiné"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roel-reine"
fi1m_id: "roel-reine"
imdb_id: "nm0004152"
tmdb_id: 97555
wikidata_id: "Q543733"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 July 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T12:15:35.430984+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Roel Reiné

## Identity

Roel Reiné

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roel-reine
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roel-reine
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004152
- **TMDB ID:** 97555
- **Wikidata ID:** Q543733
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Rein%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97555

Director. Born 15 July 1970 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 July 1970, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- **Also known as:** John Rebel, Roel Reine, Rebel Wan
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roel_Rein%C3%A9, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q543733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97555

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Halo*](https://film.one/tv/halo.md) (52)

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## Fi1m on Roel Reiné

> Roel Reiné is a practical action director, often doing his own camerawork and staging battles on land and sea. We respect that skill; the dramatic scenes give us less reason to recommend his work.

Roel Reiné puts cameras around a fight and often operates one himself. Practical locations and aerial views help him establish the ground, and shooting with several cameras at once is part of his working method. There is useful craft here, particularly for films whose principal obligation is to stage a fight clearly. We take that craft seriously, but it is not enough on its own to make us recommend the work.

The direct-to-video sequels became a substantial part of his work after his theatrical debut, *The Delivery* (1999), with *Death Race 2* (2010) and *Hard Target 2* (2016) among them. The return to Dutch historical films brought *Admiral* (2015) and *Redbad* (2018), both of which he also photographed. *Admiral* offers sea battles staged with scope, alongside dramatic scenes that can be murky or conventional. Taking responsibility for both the direction and the photography gives him considerable control over what we see, though it does not solve the storytelling.

*Halo* (2022) makes the reservation harder to overlook, even though Reiné directed only two episodes and should not be treated as the author of the whole series. We were frustrated because Pablo Schreiber and Yerin Ha gave it enough human interest to make the sluggishness matter. The plotting explains too much, and the action is weak: an awkward result for military science fiction, where movement ought to be one of the pleasures. There is promise here, but our score of 52 reflects how often the programme fails to fulfil it.

What holds our attention in *Halo* is the people, which is worth remembering when considering a director so closely associated with battles and fights. The actors give us a reason to care; the series then makes caring unnecessarily laborious. Its weaknesses do not settle the merits of every Reiné film, but they keep us from recommending his name as a guarantee of a good action evening. Approach the historical work for the battles, with patience for what happens between them.

## Biography

Roel Reiné is a Dutch film director born on 15 July 1970 in Eindhoven. He occasionally works under the alias John Rebel and runs the production company Rebel Film. He is also credited as a cinematographer on many of his projects.

Reiné began his career directing television series in the Netherlands before moving to Los Angeles around 2005. He is known for directing episodes of series including *Black Sails* (2017), *Marvel's Inhumans* (2017), *Knightfall* (2019) and *Halo* (2022), as well as feature films such as *Death Race 2* (2010), *The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption* (2012) and *Fistful of Vengeance* (2022).

His debut theatrical feature *The Delivery* (1999) earned him the Golden Calf for Best Director. He has also directed *The Admiral* (2015) and *Redbad* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, roelreine.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Halo* (2022), Fi1m 52, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/halo.md)

## Complete filmography (51)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Savage Hunt* (2025), Director
- *Classified* (2024), Director, Original Music Composer, Director of Photography
- *Line of Fire* (2023), Director, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
- *Ancient Empires* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Colosseum* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Halo* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/tv/halo.md)
- *Fistful of Vengeance* (2022), Director, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
- *Redbad - The Legend* (2020), series, Director
- *Washington* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
- *Wu Assassins* (2019), series, Director
- *Capsized: Blood in the Water* (2019), Director
- *Redbad* (2018), Director, Director of Photography, Executive Producer
- *Knightfall* (2017), series, Director
- *Marvel's Inhumans* (2017), series, Director
- *Inhumans: The First Chapter* (2017), Director, Executive Producer
- *Dead Again in Tombstone* (2017), Director of Photography, Writer, Director
- *Hard Target 2* (2016), Director, Director of Photography
- *The Condemned 2* (2015), Director, Director of Photography
- *The Man with the Iron Fists 2* (2015), Director, Director of Photography
- *Admiral* (2015), Director, Director of Photography
- *Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines* (2014), Director, Story, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- *Black Sails* (2014), series, Director
- *Dead in Tombstone* (2013), Director of Photography, Director, Camera Operator
- *12 Rounds 2: Reloaded* (2013), Director, Camera Operator
- *Death Race: Inferno* (2013), Director
- *The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption* (2012), Director, Director of Photography
- *Wolf Town* (2011), Producer, Story, Director
- *Death Race 2* (2010), Director
- *Bear* (2010), Editor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Screenplay
- *The Marine 2* (2009), Director, Camera Operator
- *The Lost Tribe* (2009), Director of Photography, Director
- *Deadwater* (2008), Producer, Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
- *Pistol Whipped* (2008), Director, Camera Operator
- *Drifter* (2008), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
- *Brutal* (2007), Producer
- *Adrenaline* (2003), Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
- *Swingers* (2002), Producer
- *Soul Assassin* (2001), Line Producer
- *Aanklacht, De* (2000), series, Director
- *The Delivery* (1999), Director
- *Voor hete vuren* (1995), series, Producer
- *12 steden, 13 ongelukken* (1990), series, Executive Producer, Director, Production Manager
- *Love Hate Hunt Kill*, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- *Moors*, Director
- *The Awakening 2*, Director
- *Deadlocked*, Director
- *The Walk In*, Director, Director of Photography
- *Lunar Colony*, Director
- *The Lost Book of Creation*, Director
- *American Smuggler*, Director
- *The Rest Room*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Roel Reiné](https://film.one/media/person/3784380/gallery-1df7a6f2c303.jpg) Roel Reiné — Marion Golsteijn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Set_Michiel_cast.JPG/1280px-Set_Michiel_cast.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Roel Reiné](https://film.one/media/person/3784380/gallery-501d11d0a15e.jpg) Roel Reiné — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Calf for Best Director 1999: Golden Calf for Best Director (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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