Henry's Crime Reviews
Hollywood.com
A great cast is wasted on an uninspired script that's frustratingly executed by director Venville.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top CriticWhat's needed is someone nervous to play Henry. A Steve Buscemi, for example. Reeves maintains a sort of Zen detachment.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Radio Times
Henry's Crime is neither enthralling enough as a heist movie, nor amusing enough as a comedy, making it rather less than the sum of its parts.
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| Original Score: 2/5
East Bay Express
The screenplay leeches all the fun out of it, and the principals - aside from Caan, who generates his own power - seem lost and abandoned.
You wish anyone on either side of the camera had a cup of coffee and then the energy to throw out weak scenes and flawed motivations while picking up the pace.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
E! Online
For a fresher, funnier crime comedy back-dropped by the theater, check out Woody Allen's gem Bullets Over Broadway.
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| Original Score: C+
Slant Magazine
The gleam in James Caan's eye is about all that illuminates this moribund comedy about a ring of Buffalo hoods who infiltrate a Buffalo staging of The Cherry Orchard.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Washington City Paper
Ludicrous plot turns makes Reeves' wooden acting the least of the film's issues.
Its mood is so muffled and point so submerged, it's difficult to see why Mr. Reeves and the rest of the cast pooled their talents to make a movie about a nowhere man going no place in particular in Buffalo.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Though the movie has some engagingly quirky moments, everything falls into place far too easily for much suspense to build, and the romance between the two leads seems as contrived as everything else.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Daily Express
There is a lot of plot in Henry's Crime, although there's nothing you couldn't second-guess and while Farmiga is delightful and Caan a joy the end result is unremarkable.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Metromix.com
Reeves is fine but not very memorable, much like the movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Common Sense Media
Aside from language, so-so caper comedy is fine for teens.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Henry's Crime has a little too much in common with its aimless namesake.
Shared Darkness
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
It's a grab bag of comic clichés about bank robberies and regional theater.
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| Original Score: C
"Henry's Crime" is a movie that eschews the details and tries to get by on charm, and it does have charm - just not enough to get by.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Reeves seems more laid-back than loser - it's hard to accept him as someone who has let half of his adult life go to waste without minding, or even noticing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Oregonian
The film feels a bit enervated, even when the script asks it to fly off the rails toward the end.
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| Original Score: C+
Mixing a bank raid with a stage romp becomes just too silly.
