Movie Name: Hardcore Henry (2016)
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Ilya Naishuller, Inga Vainshtein Smith, Ekaterina Kononenko
Writter: Ilya Naishuller
Star: Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Andrei Dementiev, Darya Charusha, Svetlana Ustinova
Music: Darya Charusha
Genre: Science Fiction
Release date: 12 Sep 2015 (TIFF), 8 Apr 2016 (USA)
Country: Russia, United States
Language: English
Story: Hardcore Henry (also known as simply Hardcore) is a 2015 Russian-American science fiction action film written and directed by Ilya Naishuller. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, and Haley Bennett. The film is scheduled to be released theatrically on April 8, 2016, by STX Entertainment.
Hardcore Henry is a first-person perspective action film, in which the audience sees everything through the eyes of Henry, who's resurrected from the brink of death, made into a cybernetic super soldier and remembers nothing about his past. He is trying to save his wife Estelle, who has been kidnapped by Akan, a powerful warlord with a plan for bio-engineering soldiers. In the unfamiliar city of Moscow, Henry tries to avoid being killed while discovering the truth behind his identity.
The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2015. The film became one of the highest-profile at the festival, and led to a bidding war between Lionsgate, Universal, and STX Entertainment. Ultimately, STX acquired worldwide rights to Hardcore, including a wide release commitment, for $10 million, becoming the studio's first festival acquisition. It was retitled Hardcore Henry for its domestic release.
At the Festival, the film won the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. The film is scheduled to be released on April 8, 2016, by STX Entertainment.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 89%, based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. Metacritic gives the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
