'Hardcore Henry' is a first person shooter game as motion picture. Ironically it's not based on any existing video game, though it turns out to have a good portion of lore all it's own. In the film you are Henry, recently resurrected as a cyborg and as a consequence temporarly mute. The whole film is your point of view, you are the camera. Your wife, the comely Haley Bennett, is abducted at the start of the picture by a telekinetic bad guy named Akan. You spend the movie traveling through action set piece levels as you try to rescue your beloved, assisted in this by a number of bio-mechanical, avatar clones of Sharlo Copley, who in effect becomes the films lead character, or at least the one with the most screen time.
A movie with this first person conceit was going to be made eventually, and while the film can't sustain its roughly 90 minute running time, parts of this do work rather well and it's fun as a novelty. If they never make another film like this again, I'm fine with that. **1/2
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