If you go to www.rottentomatoes.com, you will see that the innovative action movie tampers with the first-person POV quite extraordinarily. On the film reviews site of said name, and others such as www.IMDb.com and www.metacritic.com, neither site attributes a score above the 70% mark(1). Could this be an innate prejudice against the possibility of action movies ever acquiring the respect that is commonly paid to dramas? Or perhaps the semantic import and brevity of its story, very strange indeed that it is, totally escaped the conventional eye?
Maybe the movie's low score is for both of those reasons, a meaning inclusive of but not constrained by them.
This little flash of insight came to me last night in the cinema. Without spoiling it for you, let me say that if the facelessness, negation, and nothingness of the main character ever had its own subgenre in storytelling, then the film Hardcore Henry portrays it not only aesthetically pleasing to the filmgoer's perception (the movie is, for me, nothing but an hour and twenty-six minutes of adrenaline; the climax is even induced by adrenaline needles!), but philosophically to the audience's imagination by reflecting through the interdimensional surface of the fourth wall.
If you've seen the movie, I'd enjoy reading your comments about it :)
1. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hardcore_henry/; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3072482/?ref_=nv_sr_1; http://www.metacritic.com/movie/hardcore-henry.
philosophically reflecting through interdimensional walls...
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or they're just doing a first person shooter style movie.
Can you say that again without all the big obscure words?
Also, I didn't see it yet, was it not just a giant action-fest?
I actually wanted to see it, but it's already gone from my local. Puny small screen it is, then.
Yeah big fat flop and a half, and I was mildly curious...