Hardcore Henry

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “By allowing viewers to step into the shoes of a wall-climbing Jackie Chan, a parkour-sprinting Daniel Craig or a bullet-spraying Ahnold, it does something that live action has never attempted before. The carnage flies—it’s possible to miss a lot of it. But if action movies are meant to be stunning, Hardcore Henry can proudly take its place among the giants. Even better, it lets you stand with them.”

  Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out · 100

• “The film is an exhilarating and inventive spectacle that makes every other action film from the last 10 years look as obsolete as the Lumière brothers running that train at you back in 1896.”

  Josh Kupecki, Austin Chronicle · 78

• “The film's unbelievably precise choreography of action seeks to tap into a universal feeling of powerlessness.”

  Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine · 75

• “A head-spinning, whirling dervish of an action movie.”

  Stephen Garrett, Observer · 75

• “Is it much of a movie? Not really. It’s more of an experience – a passive sort of virtual reality – that uses a bare-bones narrative as a vehicle for a big-time body count.”

  Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 75