Hardcore Henry

Mr E

This looks... exhausting. Out in cinemas on April 8th.

A first-person action film from the eyes of Henry, who's resurrected from death with no memory. He must discover his identity and save his wife from a warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JVgQzBG5Ho

Nervous Wreck

Looks so awful.

Frank O. Pinion

I just love the feeling of motion sickness.

Duggy747

Interesting experiment that'll really divide people, can see this giving a lot of people headaches.

ricero

My head is wrecked watching that trailer. Its a no for me already

TerrorFirmer

There was a low budget movie like that made before, Hotel Inferno.

Overall a bad movie, but some brilliant and intense scenes. This Hardcore Henry is basically a much higher budget attempt, so I would be interested to see it.

DrumSteve

I like the idea of it.

I predict a lot of vomiting in cinemas though.

pixelburp

I don't generally suffer from motion sickness, but holy god that trailer (and the previous, R-rated one) made me want to vomit. A gimmick idea bordering on the obnoxious.

As a 4/5 minute short film the concept would be interesting & ballsy enough, but a 2-hour feature film? No thanks, and I pity the cinema staff that'll have to clean up after showings of this.

AnonoBoy

I can watch the music video version from a few years back but there's no way I'd care enough to watch a full film of it.

NSFW....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY

Carlos Orange

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I can watch the music video version from a few years back but there's no way I'd care enough to watch a full film of it.

I enjoyed that video a few years ago and Hardcore Henry.
They are both directed by the same person.

AnonoBoy

psinno wrote: »

I enjoyed that video a few years ago and Hardcore Henry.
They are both directed by the same person.

Oh yeah I know they're from the same guy. It's just I don't think I could watch a POV feature. I might be wrong but it would probably make me feel ill or bored after about 15 minutes I think.

smash

The idea of a FPS movie might work for a 10 minute short movie but 90 minutes? No thanks...

Dravokivich

I saw it yesterday. Loved it. So... Screw you guys. :cool:

constitutionus

have to admit to being thrown by this.

on the one hand it looks like a bat**** insane russian version of the bionic man or something and its a really interesting idea for shooting a film.

on the other i cant fuking STAND shakey cam so i can see this fecking killing me before the final act finishes.

i do laud the fact is an action film thats only an hour and a half long though. faaaaar to many lately are three hour bum numbing exercises.

one for the DVD later for me methinks and have to give them credit for trying something new.

Liam O

It is exhausting, in a somewhat good way. The action is intense and there is some cringe scenes. The schtick does start to wear thin towards the end and the ending felt very tacked on. Don't be expecting a riveting plot but as a spectacle it certainly feels like a unique action romp with some good one liners (even though our hero is a mute )

Mr E

Saw it last night. Safe to say that it'll be gone on Friday because I was the only one at the screening.

Enjoyed it a lot. Sharlto Copley was having a blast with all his characters. I wonder if non-gamers would have trouble with the perspective - I'm used to first person games, but I can see how others might find it hard to watch.

As an experiment in storytelling, I think it worked really well.... it was an interesting experience.

e_e

This is the movie for people who found Deadpool too highbrow and The Raid too restrained. It's a noble experiment that kinda works but the concept seems wasted on the often annoying and obnoxious writing. Instead of embracing the immersive, spacious, detailed and kinetic aspects of first person shooters it doubles down on tropes and clichés and lazily cuts and shakes the camera too much. There are some pretty impressive set-pieces and some surprisingly witty moments (especially with some brilliant music cues) but I was left wanting more. I just never felt like I was in the character's shoes enough. 5/10

TerrorFirmer

Outrageously good entertainment, with just the right amount of comic relief - Sharlto Copely brings the whole thing together. I was skeptic of sitting through 100 minutes of an FPS, but this really was excellent fun.

Liam McPoyle

Went to see it today with my wife, there was one other person in the screening with us.

Its an awful lot of fun, it can be quite jarring but I settled in after 10 minutes or so and the FPS view enhanced the viewing for me.

Its violent, its funny, its silly, its very enjoyable.

Some of the stunt work in it is mind bending, I haven't read up on it as yet but Im presuming the person playing Henry is an actual free runner (if you dont know what a free runner is, go to Youtube), it looks too real to be fake.

Good, mindless, action packed fun.