Henry's Crime (2010)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 32
Supporting actors Vera Farmiga and James Caan give the movie a little heft, but Henry's Crime is an otherwise predictable heist/comedy with slow pacing.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 14
Supporting actors Vera Farmiga and James Caan give the movie a little heft, but Henry's Crime is an otherwise predictable heist/comedy with slow pacing.
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Working the night shift as a toll collector on a lonely stretch of highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry (KEANU REEVES) is a man seemingly without ambition, dreams or purpose; a man sleepwalking his way through life. He gets his wakeup call early one morning when he becomes an unwitting participant in an ill-conceived bank heist. Rather than give up the names of the real culprits, Henry takes the fall and goes to jail. There, he meets the irrepressible Max (JAMES CAAN), a con man who's grown far
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Cast
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Keanu Reeves
Henry Torne -
Vera Farmiga
Julie Ivanova -
James Caan
Max Saltzman -
Peter Stormare
Darek Millodragovic -
Bill Duke
Frank -
Judy Greer
Debbie Torne -
Fisher Stevens
Eddie Vibes -
Danny Hoch
Joe -
Drew McVety
Detective -
Tim Snay
Judge -
Carlos Pizarro
Hector -
Chris Cardona
Prison Guard -
Mark Anthony
Fink -
Brian Rogalski
Other Inmate -
Steve Beauchamp
Other Inmate #2 -
Allel Aimiche
Pierre -
Currie Graham
Simon -
David Costabile
Arnold -
Jordan Gelber
Trofimov -
Audrey Lynn Weston
Dunyasha -
Ken Marks
Gayev -
Gideon Banner
Yasha -
Julie Ordon
Anya -
Paul F. O'Brien
Parole Reviewer -
James Hindman
Mr. Tuttle -
Jason Zone Fisher
Bruce the Dick -
Guy Boyd
Bernie -
Peter Appel
Larry -
David Bishins
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An intermittently entertaining comedy/drama with a funny script and a fatal miscasting.
Go for Caan and Farmiga, and stay to be surprised by Reeves.
What's needed is someone nervous to play Henry. A Steve Buscemi, for example. Reeves maintains a sort of Zen detachment.
A felony of a movie ... tedious and improbable...
If "Henry's Crime'' is occasionally too pleased with itself, it's also pleasantly unpredictable, and it has a trio of sweet hambone performances at its center.
The film's ungainly mix of heist, romance and backstage comedy never jells.
Top CriticThe film feels a bit enervated, even when the script asks it to fly off the rails toward the end.
The screenplay leeches all the fun out of it, and the principals - aside from Caan, who generates his own power - seem lost and abandoned.
... despite some minor grumbles, I was entertained by Henry's Crime.
Ludicrous plot turns makes Reeves' wooden acting the least of the film's issues.
Even as far as low-budget independent films about Buffalo, N.Y., toll booth operators go, "Henry's Crime" is an odd bird.
For a fresher, funnier crime comedy back-dropped by the theater, check out Woody Allen's gem Bullets Over Broadway.
If you had to compare it to a Russian classic, Malcolm Venville's mild comedy about a nobody (Keanu Reeves) who gets busted for a crime he didn't commit might suggest half-baked Dostoevsky or lightweight Gogol. But not Chekhov.
Really entertaining and a lot of fun.
verges on absurdity -- the non-comedic kind
Reeves is fine but not very memorable, much like the movie.
Keanu Reeves sleepwalks through this limp affair, the script is indifferent to the madcap possibilities its conceit engenders, and director Malcolm Venville exhibits no sense of comedic timing or aptitude for building tension.
This shaggy dog story just doesn't hold together, but Reeves charms as the deadpan hub of a wacky wheel...James Caan, as Henry's cellmate Max, is terrifically funny here, and he and Reeves are an unlikely but effective team.
Chekhov does small town USA in this zany, simmering slo-mo character driven retro-crime caper that plays out as a detour to an incidental bank heist, on the way to a softball game. Caan and Keanu are a strangely intoxicating match made in Buffalo.
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Super Reviewer
This is a pretty decent set up, and I really wanted to like this little rom com/hest hybird, but overall, this is just a flat, slow, miosfire that seems mostly devoid of heart and soul. The music, a nice soul score, is at least nice, and the camera work is decent, but the film just doesn't have enough push to make it worthwhile.
James Caan (as the cellmate) and Vera Farmiga (as the female lead) try their best, and do a decent job of giving the film some weight and life, but it's not quite enough. There's also some okay work from Bill Duke and Peter Stormare, but they are also not able to quite save the film. You'd think that given his reputation for being dry, dull, and lifeless that Keanu Reeves would be awesome as Henry, since he, like the character, seems to just sleepwalk through life, but instead he's merely okay, and just more bland. He does try though, or at least it seems that way.
All in all, this started out promising, but really failed to deliver, ending up instead as a generic film with lots of potential going to waste. See it if you want, but only if you feel you must.
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