If you were ever an avid player of first-person shooter (FPS) games and, at one point, wondered if the console could record all your actions and play your entire run-through like a movie, you may want to see "Hardcore Henry" this April.
This film is not just similar to an FPS but actually plays out the FPS experience with the camera showing only Henry's two hands as he grabs and reloads guns, throws grenades and punches his way out of trouble.
This experimental film, which was originally an Indiegogo project and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), does not only take its audience for a ride because the audience is the main character throughout the entire film. It is as if a GoPro was used to film the entire movie.
Actually, that's not too far off, if you've seen those memes that comment on an FPS' camera placement. Just take a look at the camera set-up for "Henry."
You are Henry and you wake up in a laboratory with no recollection of your past, but you have obviously been in some sort of life-threatening situation because your leg and arm have been replaced with cybernetic ones. The next thing you know, armed men storm the laboratory and a female scientist named Estelle, who is explaining things to you – and who turns out to be your wife – is kidnapped by a man with an army of mercenaries and a delusion for world domination.
You do not know what exactly is going on but you know you have to save your wife since she was taken to get the technology in you and this British guy called Jimmy claims to be on your side and wants to help you rescue your wife from Akan – that guy with an army of mercs.
Actually, just watch the official trailer below so you have a better idea.
"Hardcore Henry" is written and directed by Ilya Naishuller and will arrive in cinemas on April 8.
