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Henry 7/10
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Henry is a super violent movie that is far more complex than I was
giving it credit for. I remember seeing the trailer for this a while
back and kind of forgot about it. The advertising was not that great
and it looked like a fun movie but at the time one of the actors,
Sharlto Copley, was on my shit list for a series of bad films he was
in. This movie was like watching a live action first person video
game which I don't mind since I watch so many games on Youtube. It
took a moment for me to get used to the camera movement but it was
not even close to as nauseating as something like Cloverfield.
This
movie is violent as fuck. Let me get that out the way. The credits
for it are more violent and visceral than a movie like John Wick.
Knives going through throats, grenades blowing up in faces, and guns
into guts. Its nuts. Henry wakes up in a tank and having new parts
screwed on. His arm and leg are being put on by a woman that appears
to be his wife. Suddenly they are attacked and after battling this
crazy asshole with telekinetic powers starts slaughtering folks and
Henry and his lay escape in this cool plane escape pod. It crashes
and a private military starts attacking until Jimmy, played by
Copley, shows up and starts kicking ass. He gets killed quite a few
times which is confusing and I thought I knew the explanation why but
it turns out I was wrong and the films explanation was better than
what I expected.
This
movie has an awesome ass ending that I did not think would happen.
The movie went a tiny bit too long, by maybe ten minutes or so, but
that was just because some fights went on longer than I would have
liked. Tim Roth is advertised as being in this but only for a
combined time of maybe one minute. One thing I would have liked was
for Henry to get a small piece of his true life since everything
seemed to be a weird lie on top of lies. This is on Netflix so you
should check it out. Oh, the soundtrack is cool as fuck. I need to
find out what songs were all on it and get it. Like right now.
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