Hardcore Henry

Year:	2015
Country:	International
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	3 Have Seen


Director	Ilya Naishuller
Selected Cast	Sharlto Copley as Jimmy
	Tim Roth as Henry's Father
	Haley Bennett as Estelle

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DVD

Hardcore Henry - Roadshow Entertainment - Australia (2016)

Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 28th Jul 2023		I think I may have attempted to start watching Doom, but got bored, as it was a "Hollywood" idea of what a game conversion should be / star vehicle. (to be honest, I haven't played a video game though, since PS1 days... it all started to get too: "real" looking, whereas I preferred the charm of low-bit graphics games, that looked like games, and didn't try to look real-world-y. - Original GTA was hillarious and cartoonish... later ones self indulgent and disturbing incel fodder to me... do not understand modern gaming culture at all, and have no desire to do so either! :)



alexlincs 26th Jul 2023		@Magic Marmalade I always thought it was an attempt at turning an FPS action videogame into a movie. I've not seen Doom, but I've heard this is better. Really fun popcorn movie.



Magic Marmalade 25th Jul 2023		Rated 9/10 Like John Wick... on crack! In fact, there's plenty of other movies and other stuff that could be mentioned in attempting to convey a sense of, and characterise this absolutely batshit crazy movie... so here goes: It's like a live action, first person shooter sci-fi video game (the gimmick), which moves frenetically with the adrenalin charge of *Crank, with a dash of Robocop* (has a very strong whiff of Verhoven style humour), emitting a Saw like grim / gross graphic disturbing horror aesthetic, along with a Grand Theft Auto style irreverent humour, and all mixed up in a live action *manga* blender, to produce a nutty, almost relentless John Wick style smoothie. Phew! ...And believe me... "Phew!" is is how you feel after watching this absolute banger of a movie. It's taken me almost two years to get around to watching this, on account of I didn't have a blu-ray player, buy found the blu-ray disc at a bootfair last year (I am both cheap... and poor, and if I wasn't poor, I'd still be cheap! :) - finally found a player in the charity shop few weeks back for £2, and set it up, and watched last night - yay! ...During this time, I'd read many a disparaging review that seemed merely to dismiss this as a novelty item, based on the one gimmick, it ostensibly has: The first person shooter, video game idea, which many surely had thought to try sooner or later, but maybe abandoned it themselves due to it being a pretty thin idea on it's own (A fact that critics seemed to hone in on), which you would soon get tired of. And they are right. Except, this has a whole lot more going for it, which seems to have been overlooked, or ignored... ...Principally, it's the humour that sells the idea, and keeps the show on the road, as it has a razor-wire sharp sense of humour, manifest in the gags, both spoken and visual, which even some of the camera movements are funny, in the context of what's being shown on screen, which is mostly horrific, but even that somehow is hilarious - perhaps because it is so over the top, as to be the blackest slap-stick violence you've ever seen. (Basically, every one of the most awful things a person could do to another is done in this movie, and rather than baulk at it - you find yourself erupting with laughter - it ain't right, and I ain't proud of m'self for it, but damn it's funny!) The Sharlto Copley show Then there's the real feature of the movie, given that you never see Henry, from the outside, or hear him speak, even... (Bit like that old Judge Dredd thing of never showing him without the helmet) ...It's up to the other actors, and their characters to convey a sense of Henry by virtue of their relationship to him, which they do with aplomb... none more so than Sharlto Copley, who plays many variations of a character named Jimmy (It becomes clear later why), and is clearly having the time of his life. The guy is known for his somewhat outrageous portrayals in things like District 9, and even the A-Team movie, but here you get Copley-max, hamming it up in his many cartoonish cockney character versions which, if you struggle to key into at first, you will find hilarious pretty soon in. He basically steals the show here, and is performance, coupled with those other comic aspects, makes this a brilliant watch. I can, on reflection, see why initial critic reactions may have been negative for another reason too: As I have found myself, that the old "Cam-corder", "Found-footage" style of movie, as if from first person point of view, when presented on the big screen of the cinema, can be more effective at immersing you in the world than any amount of CGI, chilling, in the case of Blair Witch Project, I felt, but Nauseating, and even mildly Traumatising in the case of Cloverfield, but this uses an almost fish eye style camera (only slightly curved at the edges, so not over done), which when coupled with the frenetic pace of the action, and the wild camera movements, even so well considered, and used as here, may be somewhat vomit inducing at the cinema. But on a home cinema, or the TV in your living room, it's just about right, I'd say, and you can better appreciate the action. The story (yup, there's actually a story here, which is slightly overwhelmed by the action) is actually a good one too, with a few nice twisty turns in there, and even sci-fi concepts of it's own that are interesting ideas in themselves. This, overall, is a great, switch the mind off, Saturday night rollercoaster that you go in one end of, get mercilessly chewed up in, and spat out the other end of with a big fat smile on your face, and no sense of the time having passed at all since you started watching. Brilliant :) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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