Old Henry
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.
- Released: 2021-10-01
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Genre: Action, Thrillers, Western
- Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Stephen Dorff, Trace Adkins, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter, Kent Shelton
- Director: Potsy Ponciroli
Comments
- dinglet - 8 January 2023
Huh?
Take Scott Haze for some diction lessons, then put him in an ADR studio, and you MIGHT be able to understand what he says.
The action of the movie was good, and the visual quality was excellent. The location(s) fit the story well. (Were those fields of Bluestem?) The closing music was some of the most boring, monotonous tripe I've heard in a while.
You have a story oft-told, with a minor twist that wasn't bad. (No spoiler.) I just couldn't find a character that gained my empathy.
This was one of those movies that, when finished, you say to yourself, 'Gee, I wish I had that hour and a half back'. - ledarn-96765 - 23 November 2022
Quality western!
The ghost of The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford hovers over this splendid low -budget western.
Everything is nop-notch, especially Tim Blake Nelson and Stephen Dorff who shines in their roles,the script is great with a nice twist.
What I love most about this movie is the cinematography,bleak and thoughtful with sparsely and carefully lit interiors,it's almost so you believe that they didn't use any artificial lighting at all.
Movies like this one are too few and too far apart, when even a seasoned veteran like Walter Hill manages to screw his latest western up and make it look like it was shot with cellphone,this movie in comparison is a miracle!
And I'm sure that Clint Eastwood would be impressed with Old Henry,in some way it bears a resemblance to The Outlaw Josey Wales,in the cinematography at least in my opinion.
