this movie was also one of the first major movie to use blender, a free and open source 3d software at a time when it was basically inferior to the industry standards but also something no one took seriously.
Really! That's crazy! I think I saw Blender pop up in my research (I actually wrote this video months ago) but I never really thought twice about it because Blender is so much more common place now. But yea in 2015 that's actually quite a special usage of it 😅 - Thanks for mentioning this!
I've been using Blender since 2017 initially as a hobby - and now I'm a professional 3D artist, all because of it's free and open source nature!! It really warms my heart to be seeing it pop up in places like this because I remember just a few years ago when it was the runt of the industry and the butt of many jokes. I'm in love with it, and it's amazing community. Wooo go Blender!! :D :))
I went to see HCH in theaters. It was just me and a little old lady who obviously was either tricked by her very young grandson to take him or she was an enabler who took the kid to a movie knowing his parents wouldn't like it. Nobody else. Just us 3 at the showing. I was wondering what the little old lady was thinking as the movie progressed becoming more weird, violent, and over the top. At the climax of the movie I got my answer when lil old granny screamed out "F*cking kill them Henry!"
Wish my Grandma was an enabler, but it sounds like the experience of seeing the old lady be her young spirit must’ve made you laugh, definitely a surprise to hear what you’d thought was a sweet old lady
Same for me, when i was younger in highschool i took lsd and went to a theatre to see it by myself. I really liked the idea of tripping and watching a fully POV movie similar to Enter the Void. Think there was like only 5 other people at the theatre. Being honest, im not surprised the movie didn't get a popular showing. Definitely more of an experimental movie that i imagine most people got turned off from just the trailers.
I was fortunate to have worked on a part of this movie, specifically a handful of shots in the airship. You have described the process almost perfectly, however I need to add some corrections. - The lens distortion on the GoPro was/is very pronounced, but it was the same for every shot - so we created one lens distortion/undistortion profile, and used it for all the shots. The biggest problem was not the time to undistort the footage, but rather it's size after straightening, pixel dimensions were at least 2x from the original (if I recall correctly, this was a long time ago). So with the computers not having a ton of RAM (think it was 32GB at the time) we could work with only a few frames at once, simply because of the size of the undistorted plates. - We did 3d track on most shots, that helped us to retouch things and add new ones, because we could position objects and 3d planes where needed. We then projected the texture onto those 3d planes, receiving basically a stabilized region, super easy to retouch/change, and only put that changed part back in (after re-distorting), to not lose sharpness due to undistort/redistort combo. - The hardest thing to beat was actually the rolling shutter, which was super visible in quick camera motions. That, combined with motion blur, and lack of color definition (like you rightfully mentioned) made some shots extremely hard to track. Luckily, Syntheyes helped there, no shot remained "unsolved". - The shot splicing sometimes could be done with just the optical flow morphing - especially when the ends were quite similar, so that did save a lot of time compared to the full 3d projection workflow you mentioned.
How was it working with the insanely compressed GoPro footage? I'm not a professional VFX artist (a hobbyist who's done like 3 things in blender and after effects, my real job is as a film composer), but in my experience working with compressed phone footage, tracking is a pain because there's less detail for the computer to recognize.
@@TiagoNugentComposer It was surprisingly good. the bitrate was enough to not have macroblocks all the time, maybe only in super-quick movement moments. Also, the footage was shot in Protune "flat" color, which retained a lot more dynamic range than usual. So after converting to Rec709 (we didn't work in linear color back then) we had a pretty good picture to work with. The situation was worse with lowlight scenes, we had to do quite a lot of denoising. But still, it was surprisingly good footage, for the camera it came out of (I might be mistaken, but I think it was only second gen Gopro). Tracking is a whole other question - every shot required creating supervised trackers (semi-manual tracking option in Syntheyes). So no 1-click solution, but after you've got enough trackers going, the solve was usually pretty painless. Sometimes, when the macroblocking got really rough, we would need to guess the movement across several frames - but thankfully this was rarely the case.
_never occurred to me how many hidden cuts they had to create_ That's how we know they did a really, really good job. We don't even stop to ask "Huh, how did they even do that shot?" We just accept it.
I know right! The GoPro footage must be hard to work with! If you like VFX and Blender 3d you may like our UA-cam channel, ua-cam.com/users/lightarchitect
Cheap russian labor + homebrew tech from brillant engineers. Most likely, 2 mils Is what investors spend, but there was alot of product placement that helped to cover some spendings that wasn't added to budget. Its common practice for Bekmambetov producer company.
I would say, For She-Hulk, the mot likely reason for the inflated budget is that the main character is a 7 foot tall green CG woman. Add in the fact of the supporting cast, plus Hollywood taxes being a thing, and most if not entire scenes being completely CG; you get a monster of a Budget. I remember reading an article a while back about the price disparities of Animated Films; The Main Focus Being 'Turning Red.' From Pixar, and 'Nimona' from Blue Sky/Netflix. Nimona costed a fraction of the cost of Turning red, Why? Simple, Pixar, and Disney as a whole, holds them selves to a higher standard and will take the time to individually place hair on a persons head. If you look closely at Pixar's recent catalogue, they do in fact look great, but movies from other companies sometimes makes better looking movies. I suspect that the same thing there, happened with She-Hulk; over reliance on Detail and trying to rove they are better. They would rather pay VFX artists millions of dollars instead of hiring a decent writer, and actually paying that writer. TLDR; Detail = $$$, Goodish story and ingenuity = $.
Most American movies with huge budgets doesn't mean most of the budgets go to effects and etc. The budgets go to there big name actors hard-core Henry had like 4 main actors and 1 of them played like 7 roles
Great video; I think on top of all that, it's Sharlto Copley's phrenetic performance throughout that elevates the entire movie to its "hardcore" status....and what exactly is going on with the "bad guy" having some kind of "super power" like an end-boss to a game, perfect
@@tomaspabon2484 I could have said "frenetic" but I said phrenetic, an adjective meaning "frenzied, filled with extreme excitement; excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion." In your defense, they are synonyms.
@@jonathand.t.5051 Dunno about his comedies. Most of his Russian comedies, unlike more serious or action-packed filmes seemed as filler-cashgrab for me. Maybe they'll treat big budget better.
There's a prequel comic called Hardcore Akan. Are you shtting me? Two million dollars?! That's insane! This is one of my all-time favourites and it kills me that more people haven't seen it, especially my favourite react channels, who I know would love it as it's totally the type of movie they're into.
I'm still planning on watching the movie for the first time soon, but I had no idea there was a prequel comic. You think I should read it before watching Hardcore Henry, or read it after the movie ?
@@johnderat2652 I read it, there's not much in the comic that has anything to do with the movie (other than the fact that Akan exists). It explains how he got his powers what kind of person he is, and what he does with those powers. I think the movie takes place years, or perhaps even a decade or so, after the comic ends. So you don't need to worry about watching or reading them in order or anything like that.
@@chickencurry420 Thanks. Honestly I'm asking mostly to know whether it would add to the overall experience of the movie by knowing more about the story/antagonist _before_ or _after_ watching it. Like, would knowing more about Akan's character add to my enjoyment while watching the movie ?
@@johnderat2652 I think that's a question with too subjective of an answer so I'll say this: Aside from the character himself, the stories have virtually nothing to do with each other. If you've seen the movie, then the comic will be an unnecessary, yet entertaining origin story to see where its villain came from. If you haven't seen the movie, the comic would likely work as a self-contained story about a psychopathic villain character who goes mad with power. They were originally gonna explain Akan's background in the movie but it was cut for time, which was a good move in my opinion. Even though Akan has a cool story, trying to explain it all within the movie itself in any coherent way would've been fatal to its overall pacing, while ultimately adding nothing to Henry's story. Personally, I'd suggest seeing the movie first and then deciding for yourself if you like Akan enough to want to know more about his backstory. Reading the comic will tell you more about the villain, but not so much that you'd be lost without it.
Saw this movie in the theaters when it came out and the intense, immersive fun of the experience truly stuck with me. At least for longer than it took the motion-sickness to wear off.
12:08 My fiend worked on the set, he told me that lady got a broken rib and a head trauma in that shot. Her first words after the fall "Was the take good" she is a stunt actor. And she got hit in the face by accident, she should of just fall, but stuff happens. Also he told me that punches was hard to fake, so crew decided to just go for it. Btw 11:40 bridge is not that scary was running on it myself from police when I was 15
There's a scene in the abandoned apartment block were he shoots a missed shot with an AK. And they still cgi in the impact of the stray bullet around the door frame. The mini gun V van is well done to match the direction of barrels. Great movie. The rooftop fight is insane.
Before I watch the video, I wanna appreciate that you're covering the film as its hidden gem that should be more known. Its a personal fave and one way that I still feel this is John Wick would be in 1st person & how FPS game franchises could adapt the IPs to film. Let alone how Sharlto Copley carried this like I knew he would.
@@sidhantjasrotia7079 not even just references. Jimmy was straight up a character in the game. There were heists that were dedicated to him as well. It was a full on collab!
@@Bat0541 Not True! Dustbus has a brief Cameo during the sniper scene when Punk Jimmy is on screen, My Woman plays during the Chase scene and For the Kill is the credits song All three were done by Biting Elbows (Even if My Woman didnt release until 2020)
The reviews by audiences and critics were both literally as mid as you could get but I guess the people who liked it like the people watching this video (and myself) are just watching a different movie lol
@@Jumzaaa I really have no clue as to how someone could hate this movie, you have to at least respect its goal, and that it hit the nail on the head in that regard
"Nobody" by Naishuller is a great movie too. The Christopher Lloyd's appearance there was really just a cherry on top of all the fun idiotism that happened there. One should check this out too. As for HH, I saw it at the première and get loads of fun. It might be trippy while watching at home though.
i adore this movie. i remember seeing the behind the scenes and i was shocked to see that the posters in that one guy's apartment was fake. it just goes to show how much actual vfx was used for the movie. the minute sharlto copely had a musical number in the middle of the movie, i thought "wow...this movie really does have everything."
I have always always maintained that this film is an utter masterpiece of action, stuntwork, and CGI, and it's nice to see a long video with plenty of views explaining the points I've been telling people already. It's a complete miracle that this film was made on any budget, and an even bigger miracle that it was made on a budget as small as 2 million.
Hardcore Henry is beyond awesome, seeing it in a theater back in 2016 has been one of the most unique movie experiences I've ever had. Thank you for this essay!
Also, Ilya Naishuller, the director, is the guy who's band used this FPS format for two of their music videos. Biting Elbows are very rad, and even made the first song for the credits, "For The Kill". That's Ilya's voice you're hearing there.
This has to be one of my favourite action movies. It is absolutely up there with John Wick and The Raid. The team behind this is absolutely insane to have done it on so little budget as well. I wish this team got a bigger budget to make more of this.
I want to put into perspective (literally) how common the issue is when recording any video from a difficult angle or viewpoint. When recording in vr, the perspective you are recording from is your eyes, and because of this, the game that you are recording has to be from either one lens, otherwise you will have be forced to stitch both lens footages in post because recording only one eye is either too shaky or just too small of a pov. Only when doing this averages and stabilizes the camera and view of the footage (unless the game you’re playing has a built in fov slider).
Trippy, we just watched "Upgrade" tonight (m'lady, our girls, and myself) and while we were watching I thought to myself that it was sorta like Hardcore Henry but from a conventional film perspective, instead of a first-person perspective. Then this pops up!
I still remember seeing their fan funding campaign back in highschool and their test videos, teasers. Man it was a blast seeing the project came into fruition
when you started talking about chaos i realised how much more fun are shooter games when there is chaos, you sometimes dont even understand whats happening on your screen but you still having fun
Although this has little shelf life for me, I heartily reccomend it as a film to see before you die; incredible achievement---this is the sort of movie countless people dream of but don't think is possible. I was a kid when I fancied myself as a badass director who would make a film just like this, a POV movie that was like a first person shooter, and my mates would roll their eyes when I talked about it.
finally someone who talks about this masterpiece of a movie. I rewatched it many, many times and i'm still amazed how they did this. The budget, the story telling, the charcter development, even the smallest details. When i rewatched the movie for the 3rd time i noticed, in the scene on rooftop, when he is in the cabin, out of nowhere he turns around to kill one guy in the window and i never knew how He knew about him until i noticed a small mirror on bottom left corner of the screen.
This is a movie that I love but always forget about til something reminds me of it. Time to go back and watch again. It’s such a ridiculous and fun time.
Great video! You covered a lot of the issues and awesomeness! One comment- the text you put up for quotes from the director/vfx/stunts etc. were very fast. If you're going to use them to support your narrative give them an extra few seconds on screen so we can read them and not have to keep pausing.
One of my favourite movies, insane action, unique, and they are running around my house in Moscow :p. Motorcycle chase sequence and opening shootout sequence under the highway are really great. Also small interactions with cops are very realistic.
I really wish they would have made this in 3d. I was so excited to see this film I went on opening night. I remember it not being loved by critics but I had a blast although I’ve never seen it again. I’m really curious to rewatch this.
I'll never forget the time I would always see the trailer for it during commercial break on Comedy Central. I was watching South Park at the time when this movie came up
Ilya Naishuller is my creative hero. Badass band, badass homemade music videos and of course, this gem of a movie. Everything he does is so unique and so full of passion. Nothing ever gets in his way forever, there is no obstacle too expensive, too time consuming or too never-seen-before that he and his team can't overcome. Thank you for giving Hardcore Henry the love it deserves with this video.
Essentially it's half video game, the "fake stitched footage" is just the same material you could use to make a game, it's the perfect solution. Make a film about a game by making a game and filming some bits to put in it, it reminded me of those old point and click adventure games where it was all using filmed footage and real live actors, it's quite cool how they pulled it off in this film.
Finally, someone talks about this movie, especially in the current day where most movies miss the point of the plot or perspective, i enjoy the GoPro shots and VFX such an underrated masterpiece
Сюжет в Хардкоре? Его там нет, герой буквально делает что ему говорят. Чуть ли не любая игра делает погружение игрока в игру лучше (кроме AAA-projects, которые хотят быть плохими фильмами).Фильм имитирует стрим об игре, а не игру, здесь нет gameplay. Для меня фильм переоценнен, я хочу услышать что делают другие фильмы лучше, что делают игры лучше чем фильмы.
@@GrantSaat "the hero literally does what he's told" Hardcore Henry isn't trying to be an open-world-RPG video game movie, it's an FPS movie. You play any Battlefield, Call of Duty, or Halo game, and that's what you do. Get told where to go and who to kill, and you do it in a spectacular fashion.
Hardcore Henry is genuinely one of my favorite movies I had to jump at the chance to grab it when I saw it in the five dollar value bin at Walmart on a whim. I absolutely love everything about this movie, The music, the actors, the action, the atmosphere. When I found out that the guy who directed this directed Nobody when watching the credits it immediately made why I really loved the movie click together I don't think we'll ever get an actual sequel to Hardcore Henry, but I hope Ilya keeps getting involved with filmmaking
This is honestly one of my favourite films of the last decade! I had the great fortune of seeing in the cinema (unfortunately there was practically no one else there) and have loved it ever since. It’s so much fun, so over the top, so hilariously funny, and so entertaining from start to finish. I always recommend it to people when talking about great action movies and it really deserves more awareness and praise. Sharlto Copley is fantastic in his various guises, and brings great humour, and personality to the film which is much needed when your protagonist is mute. I’ve watched and rewatched it so many times and can’t believe it’s only 9 years old, I feel like I’ve been telling people about it for so long. Great video, really showed just how much effort went into making an honestly amazing film. I hope You create a few more fans of the movie by people watching your vid then going and checking out the film!
It's wrong in 3:11, most of FPS game use upper chest (slightly below the neck) for the camera location. But they also fake the arm location which lower it, to feel the camera is under the chin
One of my friends I marched drum corps with was part of the camera and visual effects crew. Everyone he drummed with over the years were so stoked when this came out.
I stumbled across your video on District 9. Then I was thinking "I hope he did a video on Hardcore Henry" . And now here I am. My favorite action movie of all time. Cheers man.
NGL The whole musical dance sequence with the Doctor dude is the best movie sequence of ALL TIME. It was absolutely magical to see the dude fall and another with the same exact face stand up and move from the otherside of the room, to get that so smoothly is almost impossible.
Hey! Love this movie. I’m from Russia, as Naishuler, so I’ve watched prereliesed version with film crew q&a after. It was amazing, and hardcore still warmly remains in my memories
These were wonderful times, Russian and Hollywood artists created this wonderful work. So sad because it was a period of only 30 years. This director also shoted "Nobody"(2021) and clip Serj Tankian - Elasticity (with russian atress Aleksandra Bortich). Peace everyone.😊
Finally I see someone giving love to a such an underrated movie. For me it was beyond awesome, didn't get the chance to watch it on cinema but watched on netflix a lot of times. I follow Illia's work and he's a mastermind in his craft. He worked on "Nobody" and it was a blast of a movie, directed a the weeknd music video "false alarm" true to his style of filming. Also has a rock band. An awesome guy. Back to the film it was absurdly gruesome, extremily fun and considering the visible low budget it was incredibly well done, not to mention showcased in cinemas around the world. 100/10
Bit of constructive criticism: The text you put on-screen, from explanations to cast/crew quotes and even the chapter titles, are WAY too fast. The video in general seems rather fast-paced, and most moments don't have enough room to breathe.
@@You-Know-Youre-Right There are around 32 text plates in this video. How enjoyable do you think it is to pause a video with a 14-minute (sans ads) runtime thirty-two times?
You'd be surprised how much closer a GoPro is to a cinema camera than it is to a smartphone. Those sensors are a serious piece of tech, I'd never expected to get the colour science that good, with colours and especially the temperature staying consistent throughout the whole ISO range, and footage that retained so much colour information in each frame to make it easily editable.
Don't spend 100 mil on marketing. Don't start filming without a complete script, so you're not doing 3 reshoots. Stop making everything 120 min of CGI.
Hardcore Henry is one of my favourite action movies ever, it has that bit of flavour from the 70s and 80s of whimsical and over the top yet simple/plain plots that just allows you to enjoy them like a little kid without grinding your gears with deep and complex moralities and lessons. I just hope the whole team involved were happy and satisfied with the end product because this is just the type of movie that can only happen once, lightning in a bottle, you need passion, talent, luck and that point of recklessness only people who value the results over the means can get sometimes, i.e. the scene where they run over the bridge with 0 safety measures under them. I'd sure love to see some other good POV movies, but i doubt they'll ever happen unless the right people get together under the perfect circumstances for it again.
Get 4 months extra on a 2 year plan at nordvpn.com/CGY. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! I hope you guys enjoyed watching this video as much as I enjoyed researching it! It was really interesting to see just how much the GoPro affected the VFX process - Especially all the stuff to do with the camera’s lens. Overall I think this is just an absurdly underrated film, but what do you guys think?
Unironically Hardcore Henry is one of my favorite movies of all time. It has its flaws but when you are on its crazy rollercoaster you just enjoy its crazy ride and every second is just fun insanity. Finding out how much blood, sweat and tears went into it only makes me love it more.
I watched this once when it first came out and can't remember anything from it, I only remember that I loved it, when I eventually rewatch it, I'll come back to this video👍
Saw this in theaters one weekend, it was out of theaters next weekend. Then I bought it online and have seen it at least half a dozen times since. It's so unique and super fun and Sharlto Copley makes anything he's in an absolute blast
First youtube video Im seeing where im not skipping the sponsoe part, actually enjoying it (because you are killing it) aaaand for a quick second thought about using your affiliate code.
Back when this came out, I was lucky to see it in a theater (though it still has a vintage JBL sound system that for some reason is cut from like 50 Hz and doesn't play low notes at all!) and it's the most intriguing movie experience I've had. I wish I could see it again from the big screen and with the whole frequency spectrum.
I still remember coming across this movie for the first time and i was so enthralled by it that i watched it again like a week later. There is just no other movie that comes even close to this
I watched this movie by myself in theaters at 15. By that point i had seen the trailer so many times, i was insanely excited. It's on if the few times a movie truly lived up to the hype and fully delivered everything I hungered for. I knew it'd be amazing, and it was. To this day I'm still a huge fan of biting elbows, even had a conversation with Ilya Naishuller about it the day Nobody came out. Hardcore Henry 2 isn't happening, if y'all were wondering. He said he wants to do different stuff, that he's tired of pov.
As a vfx artist, and being a kid in highschool when it was announced, it blew me away, it definitly deserved more praise than what the critics and people have put this down for, it was so insanely amazing and a project I wish I could take on.
I remember seeing this film and just being absolutely mesmerized by the parkour the makings of a indie Video Game that I can see in the story. The lack of dialogue executed by so much visual dialogue instead is just something we will rarely or never get anymore.
this movie was also one of the first major movie to use blender, a free and open source 3d software at a time when it was basically inferior to the industry standards but also something no one took seriously.
Really! That's crazy! I think I saw Blender pop up in my research (I actually wrote this video months ago) but I never really thought twice about it because Blender is so much more common place now.
But yea in 2015 that's actually quite a special usage of it 😅 - Thanks for mentioning this!
I've been using Blender since 2017 initially as a hobby - and now I'm a professional 3D artist, all because of it's free and open source nature!!
It really warms my heart to be seeing it pop up in places like this because I remember just a few years ago when it was the runt of the industry and the butt of many jokes. I'm in love with it, and it's amazing community. Wooo go Blender!! :D :))
And it shows in those bits where the movie looks like a ps2 cinematic but whatever
@@jamief.g It's still bad, you just don't know any better.
Not just blender but Davinci Resolve as well which is another
I went to see HCH in theaters. It was just me and a little old lady who obviously was either tricked by her very young grandson to take him or she was an enabler who took the kid to a movie knowing his parents wouldn't like it. Nobody else. Just us 3 at the showing. I was wondering what the little old lady was thinking as the movie progressed becoming more weird, violent, and over the top.
At the climax of the movie I got my answer when lil old granny screamed out "F*cking kill them Henry!"
You got me in the first half 😆
Why are old people so based? Is like as their time is nearing, they just abandon all morals and formalness and go "Hell yeah"
Amazing
Wish my Grandma was an enabler, but it sounds like the experience of seeing the old lady be her young spirit must’ve made you laugh, definitely a surprise to hear what you’d thought was a sweet old lady
Same for me, when i was younger in highschool i took lsd and went to a theatre to see it by myself. I really liked the idea of tripping and watching a fully POV movie similar to Enter the Void. Think there was like only 5 other people at the theatre. Being honest, im not surprised the movie didn't get a popular showing. Definitely more of an experimental movie that i imagine most people got turned off from just the trailers.
I was fortunate to have worked on a part of this movie, specifically a handful of shots in the airship. You have described the process almost perfectly, however I need to add some corrections.
- The lens distortion on the GoPro was/is very pronounced, but it was the same for every shot - so we created one lens distortion/undistortion profile, and used it for all the shots. The biggest problem was not the time to undistort the footage, but rather it's size after straightening, pixel dimensions were at least 2x from the original (if I recall correctly, this was a long time ago). So with the computers not having a ton of RAM (think it was 32GB at the time) we could work with only a few frames at once, simply because of the size of the undistorted plates.
- We did 3d track on most shots, that helped us to retouch things and add new ones, because we could position objects and 3d planes where needed. We then projected the texture onto those 3d planes, receiving basically a stabilized region, super easy to retouch/change, and only put that changed part back in (after re-distorting), to not lose sharpness due to undistort/redistort combo.
- The hardest thing to beat was actually the rolling shutter, which was super visible in quick camera motions. That, combined with motion blur, and lack of color definition (like you rightfully mentioned) made some shots extremely hard to track. Luckily, Syntheyes helped there, no shot remained "unsolved".
- The shot splicing sometimes could be done with just the optical flow morphing - especially when the ends were quite similar, so that did save a lot of time compared to the full 3d projection workflow you mentioned.
damn bro thats EPIC
That's awesome feed back, thanks>
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How was it working with the insanely compressed GoPro footage? I'm not a professional VFX artist (a hobbyist who's done like 3 things in blender and after effects, my real job is as a film composer), but in my experience working with compressed phone footage, tracking is a pain because there's less detail for the computer to recognize.
@@TiagoNugentComposer It was surprisingly good. the bitrate was enough to not have macroblocks all the time, maybe only in super-quick movement moments. Also, the footage was shot in Protune "flat" color, which retained a lot more dynamic range than usual. So after converting to Rec709 (we didn't work in linear color back then) we had a pretty good picture to work with. The situation was worse with lowlight scenes, we had to do quite a lot of denoising. But still, it was surprisingly good footage, for the camera it came out of (I might be mistaken, but I think it was only second gen Gopro).
Tracking is a whole other question - every shot required creating supervised trackers (semi-manual tracking option in Syntheyes). So no 1-click solution, but after you've got enough trackers going, the solve was usually pretty painless. Sometimes, when the macroblocking got really rough, we would need to guess the movement across several frames - but thankfully this was rarely the case.
I still laugh at the horse scene where he jumps on the horse, and you get that music, and he immediately falls off.
"Quit fucking around Henry" I love that scene 🤣
@@mattsmustang65 Walking dead pilot episode hommage
Love this film, never occurred to me how many hidden cuts they had to create and all the extra challenges of VFX on warped lower res GoPros.
_never occurred to me how many hidden cuts they had to create_
That's how we know they did a really, really good job. We don't even stop to ask "Huh, how did they even do that shot?" We just accept it.
@@harbl99the only VERY obvious shot cuts i remember was when henry was in a car chase with a minigun
I know right! The GoPro footage must be hard to work with! If you like VFX and Blender 3d you may like our UA-cam channel, ua-cam.com/users/lightarchitect
How did they do this for 2 million when a single episode of she hulk cost 25 million.
Cheap russian labor + homebrew tech from brillant engineers. Most likely, 2 mils Is what investors spend, but there was alot of product placement that helped to cover some spendings that wasn't added to budget. Its common practice for Bekmambetov producer company.
I would say, For She-Hulk, the mot likely reason for the inflated budget is that the main character is a 7 foot tall green CG woman. Add in the fact of the supporting cast, plus Hollywood taxes being a thing, and most if not entire scenes being completely CG; you get a monster of a Budget. I remember reading an article a while back about the price disparities of Animated Films; The Main Focus Being 'Turning Red.' From Pixar, and 'Nimona' from Blue Sky/Netflix. Nimona costed a fraction of the cost of Turning red, Why? Simple, Pixar, and Disney as a whole, holds them selves to a higher standard and will take the time to individually place hair on a persons head. If you look closely at Pixar's recent catalogue, they do in fact look great, but movies from other companies sometimes makes better looking movies. I suspect that the same thing there, happened with She-Hulk; over reliance on Detail and trying to rove they are better. They would rather pay VFX artists millions of dollars instead of hiring a decent writer, and actually paying that writer. TLDR; Detail = $$$, Goodish story and ingenuity = $.
They weren't paying D.I E. diversity officers, intimacy coordinators and sensitivity counselors.
They paid cast, crew, and vfx artists
They didn't have a have a an actor twerk thats why . most of that budget went towards she hulk throwing it back 😂
Most American movies with huge budgets doesn't mean most of the budgets go to effects and etc. The budgets go to there big name actors hard-core Henry had like 4 main actors and 1 of them played like 7 roles
Between this and District 9 I think Sherlto Cropley has some sort of x-man like ability that gives low budget movies magically good visual FX
he's also in Elysium which I greatly enjoyed (the movie and his performance in it)
dude, chappie
It's Called Using the Tools at your Disposal well. Knowing it's strengths and Limitations and Working Around said Limitations.
We need more Hardcore Henry video essays.
What more do you want to hear about?
We need more hardcore henry style movies
@@DrEpicPhDThings that have not been formerly discussed.
@@AluminiumFoil Looks like that's already been completed.
The movie director also streams on twitch from time to time his nickname is realnaishuller or something like that
Great video; I think on top of all that, it's Sharlto Copley's phrenetic performance throughout that elevates the entire movie to its "hardcore" status....and what exactly is going on with the "bad guy" having some kind of "super power" like an end-boss to a game, perfect
Yea it's just another one of the many "mind-blowing" parts of this film. That scene where all the different "clones" dance is brilliantly done!
yep, defenetly one of the most amazing character actor
Frenentic*, "Phrenetic" relates to Phrenology, the 19th century pseudoscience
@@tomaspabon2484 I could have said "frenetic" but I said phrenetic, an adjective meaning "frenzied, filled with extreme excitement; excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion." In your defense, they are synonyms.
@@slckb0y65But I heard that he f*cks prawns
the director also made Nobody (2021), kinda baffling to see Hollwood not utilising him more
He's just built different.
He's Russian. It's called xenophobia.
He's working on a big budget action comedy starring Idris Elba, Priyanka Chopra and John Cena so
@@jonathand.t.5051 Dunno about his comedies. Most of his Russian comedies, unlike more serious or action-packed filmes seemed as filler-cashgrab for me. Maybe they'll treat big budget better.
@@v.0190 I mean even his more serious films have a tounge in cheek tone and a decent bit of comedy so
There's a prequel comic called Hardcore Akan.
Are you shtting me? Two million dollars?! That's insane!
This is one of my all-time favourites and it kills me that more people haven't seen it, especially my favourite react channels, who I know would love it as it's totally the type of movie they're into.
I'm still planning on watching the movie for the first time soon, but I had no idea there was a prequel comic. You think I should read it before watching Hardcore Henry, or read it after the movie ?
@@johnderat2652 I couldn't tell ya. I only know of it but have never bought one.
@@johnderat2652 I read it, there's not much in the comic that has anything to do with the movie (other than the fact that Akan exists). It explains how he got his powers what kind of person he is, and what he does with those powers. I think the movie takes place years, or perhaps even a decade or so, after the comic ends.
So you don't need to worry about watching or reading them in order or anything like that.
@@chickencurry420 Thanks. Honestly I'm asking mostly to know whether it would add to the overall experience of the movie by knowing more about the story/antagonist _before_ or _after_ watching it. Like, would knowing more about Akan's character add to my enjoyment while watching the movie ?
@@johnderat2652 I think that's a question with too subjective of an answer so I'll say this: Aside from the character himself, the stories have virtually nothing to do with each other. If you've seen the movie, then the comic will be an unnecessary, yet entertaining origin story to see where its villain came from.
If you haven't seen the movie, the comic would likely work as a self-contained story about a psychopathic villain character who goes mad with power.
They were originally gonna explain Akan's background in the movie but it was cut for time, which was a good move in my opinion. Even though Akan has a cool story, trying to explain it all within the movie itself in any coherent way would've been fatal to its overall pacing, while ultimately adding nothing to Henry's story.
Personally, I'd suggest seeing the movie first and then deciding for yourself if you like Akan enough to want to know more about his backstory. Reading the comic will tell you more about the villain, but not so much that you'd be lost without it.
Saw this movie in the theaters when it came out and the intense, immersive fun of the experience truly stuck with me. At least for longer than it took the motion-sickness to wear off.
Oh man, I know that feel. Saw it in the theater too and when Henry jumped off the plane, I suddenly felt dizzy.
12:08 My fiend worked on the set, he told me that lady got a broken rib and a head trauma in that shot. Her first words after the fall "Was the take good" she is a stunt actor. And she got hit in the face by accident, she should of just fall, but stuff happens. Also he told me that punches was hard to fake, so crew decided to just go for it.
Btw 11:40 bridge is not that scary was running on it myself from police when I was 15
Зарепортил тебя в полицию за побегушки по мостам
@@petrwarthursty2011 🤡🤡🤡
Balance
bro your fiend? Wtf you doing with a fiend out here bro 💀
Ouch
There's a scene in the abandoned apartment block were he shoots a missed shot with an AK. And they still cgi in the impact of the stray bullet around the door frame.
The mini gun V van is well done to match the direction of barrels.
Great movie.
The rooftop fight is insane.
Before I watch the video, I wanna appreciate that you're covering the film as its hidden gem that should be more known. Its a personal fave and one way that I still feel this is John Wick would be in 1st person & how FPS game franchises could adapt the IPs to film. Let alone how Sharlto Copley carried this like I knew he would.
John Wick and Hardcore Henry definitely have the same video game protagonist vibe to them
I love this movie. I watched it 14 times and read the comic a couple of times as well. It's my absolute favourite movie.
I think payday 2 did have some references to Hardcore henry
Fun fact: the movie Nobody has the same director as Hardcore Henry and the same (writer I think) as John Wick, while also starring Saul Goodman.
@@sidhantjasrotia7079 not even just references. Jimmy was straight up a character in the game. There were heists that were dedicated to him as well. It was a full on collab!
Shout out to The Biting Elbows. Wouldn't have even known about Hardcore Henry if I hadn't been following their music and their music videos for years.
same
well, director of the film is one of founders (frontman) of this band, he also shot all their music videos
@@kirdeak Yup! I was actually surprised that they only used one of their songs in the movie.
@@Bat0541love their songs now, haha
@@Bat0541 Not True! Dustbus has a brief Cameo during the sniper scene when Punk Jimmy is on screen, My Woman plays during the Chase scene and For the Kill is the credits song All three were done by Biting Elbows (Even if My Woman didnt release until 2020)
I love this movie and i’m so happy it’s still appreciated even now
The reviews by audiences and critics were both literally as mid as you could get but I guess the people who liked it like the people watching this video (and myself) are just watching a different movie lol
@@Jumzaaa I really have no clue as to how someone could hate this movie, you have to at least respect its goal, and that it hit the nail on the head in that regard
I'd wanna see this at The LasVegas Sphere
Fuck. Yes.
That experience may fry all of my synapses, but it's a risk I'd be willing to take.
"Nobody" by Naishuller is a great movie too. The Christopher Lloyd's appearance there was really just a cherry on top of all the fun idiotism that happened there. One should check this out too.
As for HH, I saw it at the première and get loads of fun. It might be trippy while watching at home though.
Both excellent movies
Love both of these films
Шнура убили и это хорошо
Including the word "hardcore" in the title, voluntarily or not, was the best anti-piracy method a movie could ask for.
I was following the film on Facebook way before it came out. The original name was just "Hardcore", they added "Henry" afterwards.
I still think XxX (2002, Vin Diesel) had the best anti-piracy title. But Hardcore Henry is a better movie.
I literally privated it the day it came out, but okay.
@@meoff7602 good for you
How is it anti piracy? I'm confused by that
i adore this movie. i remember seeing the behind the scenes and i was shocked to see that the posters in that one guy's apartment was fake. it just goes to show how much actual vfx was used for the movie.
the minute sharlto copely had a musical number in the middle of the movie, i thought "wow...this movie really does have everything."
This movie is an underrated gem. You never hear anyone talk about it and it seems no one knows it. Has to be in my top 5 favorite films
Hardcore Henry is one of my 3 favorite movies (having seen thousands), and it’s truly a masterpiece.
what are some others you consider to be your favorites?
Pov corn @@danyukhin
Me too!! The other two are "NOPE" and "Mad Max: Fury Road".
Hardcore Henry is probably my favorite film! thanks for covering it!
I have always always maintained that this film is an utter masterpiece of action, stuntwork, and CGI, and it's nice to see a long video with plenty of views explaining the points I've been telling people already. It's a complete miracle that this film was made on any budget, and an even bigger miracle that it was made on a budget as small as 2 million.
In other words, the CGI in of Hardcore Henry puts Marvels CGI to absolute shame..... I had no idea how much of this movie was CGI, what the hell
and it didn't cost 500 million lmao
To be fair, you're talking about VERY different types of films, there.
@@SynchronizorVideos yeah, Hardcore henry is called a good film, and marvel's are called bad. Very different indeed
It costed that much because actors have huge talennt fee
Hardcore Henry is beyond awesome, seeing it in a theater back in 2016 has been one of the most unique movie experiences I've ever had. Thank you for this essay!
Also, Ilya Naishuller, the director, is the guy who's band used this FPS format for two of their music videos. Biting Elbows are very rad, and even made the first song for the credits, "For The Kill". That's Ilya's voice you're hearing there.
Hardcore Henry needs to be on every gamers bucket list. It really nails the first person film aesthetic.
This has to be one of my favourite action movies. It is absolutely up there with John Wick and The Raid. The team behind this is absolutely insane to have done it on so little budget as well. I wish this team got a bigger budget to make more of this.
I want to put into perspective (literally) how common the issue is when recording any video from a difficult angle or viewpoint. When recording in vr, the perspective you are recording from is your eyes, and because of this, the game that you are recording has to be from either one lens, otherwise you will have be forced to stitch both lens footages in post because recording only one eye is either too shaky or just too small of a pov. Only when doing this averages and stabilizes the camera and view of the footage (unless the game you’re playing has a built in fov slider).
Trippy, we just watched "Upgrade" tonight (m'lady, our girls, and myself) and while we were watching I thought to myself that it was sorta like Hardcore Henry but from a conventional film perspective, instead of a first-person perspective. Then this pops up!
Hardcore Henry, Upgrade, Radius, and Overlord are all very similar films in the way they're all amazing but super underrated.
Bro no one talks about Upgrade! Same with Michael Bay's Ambulance! fantastic hidden gems.
Is upgrade the film with the guy with the crazy cyborg heart? For the longest time I thought that movie and hardcore henry were the same lol.
@@qwertydavid8070I think you're thinking of Crank 2: High Voltage.
The first Crank is an action classic and definitely just like hardcore henry.
I still remember seeing their fan funding campaign back in highschool and their test videos, teasers. Man it was a blast seeing the project came into fruition
when you started talking about chaos i realised how much more fun are shooter games when there is chaos, you sometimes dont even understand whats happening on your screen but you still having fun
Always love to see this movie being talked about, it's criminally underrated.
Although this has little shelf life for me, I heartily reccomend it as a film to see before you die; incredible achievement---this is the sort of movie countless people dream of but don't think is possible. I was a kid when I fancied myself as a badass director who would make a film just like this, a POV movie that was like a first person shooter, and my mates would roll their eyes when I talked about it.
finally someone who talks about this masterpiece of a movie. I rewatched it many, many times and i'm still amazed how they did this. The budget, the story telling, the charcter development, even the smallest details. When i rewatched the movie for the 3rd time i noticed, in the scene on rooftop, when he is in the cabin, out of nowhere he turns around to kill one guy in the window and i never knew how He knew about him until i noticed a small mirror on bottom left corner of the screen.
Ilya Naishuller is something else. Change my mind.
This is a movie that I love but always forget about til something reminds me of it. Time to go back and watch again. It’s such a ridiculous and fun time.
I am yet again reminding you to watch it
Great video! You covered a lot of the issues and awesomeness!
One comment- the text you put up for quotes from the director/vfx/stunts etc. were very fast. If you're going to use them to support your narrative give them an extra few seconds on screen so we can read them and not have to keep pausing.
One of my favourite movies, insane action, unique, and they are running around my house in Moscow :p. Motorcycle chase sequence and opening shootout sequence under the highway are really great. Also small interactions with cops are very realistic.
5:21 you got me so good 😂 😂 😂 😂 I watched the ad just cus it wasn't R lol
Well, I know what film I'm going to watch tonight. Thanks 👍.
I really wish they would have made this in 3d. I was so excited to see this film I went on opening night. I remember it not being loved by critics but I had a blast although I’ve never seen it again. I’m really curious to rewatch this.
I'll never forget the time I would always see the trailer for it during commercial break on Comedy Central. I was watching South Park at the time when this movie came up
I remember randomly going to see this with my best friend when it came out and was so impressed with how well they did
-from the face that inspired a generation
Ilya Naishuller is my creative hero. Badass band, badass homemade music videos and of course, this gem of a movie. Everything he does is so unique and so full of passion. Nothing ever gets in his way forever, there is no obstacle too expensive, too time consuming or too never-seen-before that he and his team can't overcome. Thank you for giving Hardcore Henry the love it deserves with this video.
0:44 the posters where cg !?
Essentially it's half video game, the "fake stitched footage" is just the same material you could use to make a game, it's the perfect solution.
Make a film about a game by making a game and filming some bits to put in it, it reminded me of those old point and click adventure games where it was all using filmed footage and real live actors, it's quite cool how they pulled it off in this film.
Finally, someone talks about this movie, especially in the current day where most movies miss the point of the plot or perspective, i enjoy the GoPro shots and VFX such an underrated masterpiece
Сюжет в Хардкоре? Его там нет, герой буквально делает что ему говорят. Чуть ли не любая игра делает погружение игрока в игру лучше (кроме AAA-projects, которые хотят быть плохими фильмами).Фильм имитирует стрим об игре, а не игру, здесь нет gameplay. Для меня фильм переоценнен, я хочу услышать что делают другие фильмы лучше, что делают игры лучше чем фильмы.
@@GrantSaat "the hero literally does what he's told" Hardcore Henry isn't trying to be an open-world-RPG video game movie, it's an FPS movie. You play any Battlefield, Call of Duty, or Halo game, and that's what you do. Get told where to go and who to kill, and you do it in a spectacular fashion.
Hardcore Henry is genuinely one of my favorite movies
I had to jump at the chance to grab it when I saw it in the five dollar value bin at Walmart on a whim.
I absolutely love everything about this movie,
The music, the actors, the action, the atmosphere.
When I found out that the guy who directed this directed Nobody when watching the credits it immediately made why I really loved the movie click together
I don't think we'll ever get an actual sequel to Hardcore Henry, but I hope Ilya keeps getting involved with filmmaking
This movie was a celebration of VFX and Stunt people jobs. It is tragic that there was not enough marketing to take it to US mainstream
This is honestly one of my favourite films of the last decade! I had the great fortune of seeing in the cinema (unfortunately there was practically no one else there) and have loved it ever since. It’s so much fun, so over the top, so hilariously funny, and so entertaining from start to finish. I always recommend it to people when talking about great action movies and it really deserves more awareness and praise.
Sharlto Copley is fantastic in his various guises, and brings great humour, and personality to the film which is much needed when your protagonist is mute. I’ve watched and rewatched it so many times and can’t believe it’s only 9 years old, I feel like I’ve been telling people about it for so long.
Great video, really showed just how much effort went into making an honestly amazing film. I hope
You create a few more fans of the movie by people watching your vid then going and checking out the film!
I'm so glad someone is talking about this film ! I adore it !
I've seen small parts of the movie spread across social media I didn't knew it was a full film this is amazing!
It's wrong in 3:11, most of FPS game use upper chest (slightly below the neck) for the camera location. But they also fake the arm location which lower it, to feel the camera is under the chin
You know this movie was made with love, because despite the low budget, the danger, and the vfx challenges, they still pushed on and made it.
I knew the movie "Hardcore Henry" was something historic, the first time l saw it.
One of my friends I marched drum corps with was part of the camera and visual effects crew. Everyone he drummed with over the years were so stoked when this came out.
I bet everyone who watched this movie was like "Wow this would be easy to film it's just one camera"
I stumbled across your video on District 9. Then I was thinking "I hope he did a video on Hardcore Henry" . And now here I am. My favorite action movie of all time.
Cheers man.
NGL The whole musical dance sequence with the Doctor dude is the best movie sequence of ALL TIME. It was absolutely magical to see the dude fall and another with the same exact face stand up and move from the otherside of the room, to get that so smoothly is almost impossible.
I saw this movie on UA-cam back when copyright wasn't as strict. And boy did I enjoy it. I literally had goosebumps during every action sequences
HARDCORE HENRY MENTIONED🗣️🔊🔊
Hey! Love this movie. I’m from Russia, as Naishuler, so I’ve watched prereliesed version with film crew q&a after. It was amazing, and hardcore still warmly remains in my memories
These were wonderful times, Russian and Hollywood artists created this wonderful work. So sad because it was a period of only 30 years. This director also shoted "Nobody"(2021) and clip Serj Tankian - Elasticity (with russian atress Aleksandra Bortich). Peace everyone.😊
False alarm for Weekend, too
This is the same director for Nobody????? Holy shit that guy is cracked, he has such a good sense for making good action.
Finally I see someone giving love to a such an underrated movie. For me it was beyond awesome, didn't get the chance to watch it on cinema but watched on netflix a lot of times. I follow Illia's work and he's a mastermind in his craft. He worked on "Nobody" and it was a blast of a movie, directed a the weeknd music video "false alarm" true to his style of filming. Also has a rock band. An awesome guy. Back to the film it was absurdly gruesome, extremily fun and considering the visible low budget it was incredibly well done, not to mention showcased in cinemas around the world. 100/10
my dumbass cinema teacher just dimissed the movie when i talked to him about it, and he didnt like tarantino, fuck my old cinema teacher
Was it roger ebert lol?
To be fair. There’s more to not like about tarintino than there is to like (for many of us).
Thank you for calling out this amazing film and how much work must've went into bringing it to life. Thanks to everyone who made this
that was the most tongue-in-cheek sponsorship i have ever seen
absolutely loved this movie. I think it was great how they did the first person perspective. it's nice to know just *how* they did that.
Bit of constructive criticism: The text you put on-screen, from explanations to cast/crew quotes and even the chapter titles, are WAY too fast. The video in general seems rather fast-paced, and most moments don't have enough room to breathe.
you could always just pause the video...
@@You-Know-Youre-Right There are around 32 text plates in this video. How enjoyable do you think it is to pause a video with a 14-minute (sans ads) runtime thirty-two times?
@@Aaron3502 had to pause the video to count the text plates, but still valid point.
I think it's excellent speed for modern day tik tok brains, ok boomer
@@blaytzd.bermuda647 I don't need to pause in order to identify text on-screen
You'd be surprised how much closer a GoPro is to a cinema camera than it is to a smartphone. Those sensors are a serious piece of tech, I'd never expected to get the colour science that good, with colours and especially the temperature staying consistent throughout the whole ISO range, and footage that retained so much colour information in each frame to make it easily editable.
The gayest jacket scene is alone worth 12 Oscar rewards
From a technical and innovation standpoint, this is one of the best movies ever made.
I remember watching it with a permanent smile on my face.
how to make cheaper movies? Step 1: Don't pay actors millions of dollars. Done.
Don't spend 100 mil on marketing. Don't start filming without a complete script, so you're not doing 3 reshoots. Stop making everything 120 min of CGI.
Hardcore Henry is one of my favourite action movies ever, it has that bit of flavour from the 70s and 80s of whimsical and over the top yet simple/plain plots that just allows you to enjoy them like a little kid without grinding your gears with deep and complex moralities and lessons.
I just hope the whole team involved were happy and satisfied with the end product because this is just the type of movie that can only happen once, lightning in a bottle, you need passion, talent, luck and that point of recklessness only people who value the results over the means can get sometimes, i.e. the scene where they run over the bridge with 0 safety measures under them.
I'd sure love to see some other good POV movies, but i doubt they'll ever happen unless the right people get together under the perfect circumstances for it again.
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I hope you guys enjoyed watching this video as much as I enjoyed researching it! It was really interesting to see just how much the GoPro affected the VFX process - Especially all the stuff to do with the camera’s lens.
Overall I think this is just an absurdly underrated film, but what do you guys think?
You should probably pin this comment
That's because such films are barely watchable
This is honestly my favourite film of all time. It interesting to see how hard it was to make and how much work and talent went into it
This movie is such a wild ride, and genuinely one of the best out there, thank you so much for letting me know more about this amazing project ❤️
Thank you for letting them get propper recognition, My brother showed it to me, it was incredible.
It’s in my top 3. It’s inspiring. The fact so many different people played Henry adds to that.
Love whoever edited this together, they used Killzone and Resistance gameplay.
Unironically Hardcore Henry is one of my favorite movies of all time. It has its flaws but when you are on its crazy rollercoaster you just enjoy its crazy ride and every second is just fun insanity. Finding out how much blood, sweat and tears went into it only makes me love it more.
I watched this once when it first came out and can't remember anything from it, I only remember that I loved it, when I eventually rewatch it, I'll come back to this video👍
The music videos that lead to this are AWESOME!
Son of rock n roll
Saw this in theaters one weekend, it was out of theaters next weekend. Then I bought it online and have seen it at least half a dozen times since. It's so unique and super fun and Sharlto Copley makes anything he's in an absolute blast
5:20 had me in the first half
First youtube video Im seeing where im not skipping the sponsoe part, actually enjoying it (because you are killing it) aaaand for a quick second thought about using your affiliate code.
Back when this came out, I was lucky to see it in a theater (though it still has a vintage JBL sound system that for some reason is cut from like 50 Hz and doesn't play low notes at all!) and it's the most intriguing movie experience I've had. I wish I could see it again from the big screen and with the whole frequency spectrum.
It was a wild movie. I assumed it was GoPro footage but didn't look like it. Now I know why. Great vid. Keep up the good work.
I still remember coming across this movie for the first time and i was so enthralled by it that i watched it again like a week later. There is just no other movie that comes even close to this
Wow time to rewatch it again. Thank you! I wish there was part 2 of this movie.
I watched this movie by myself in theaters at 15. By that point i had seen the trailer so many times, i was insanely excited. It's on if the few times a movie truly lived up to the hype and fully delivered everything I hungered for. I knew it'd be amazing, and it was. To this day I'm still a huge fan of biting elbows, even had a conversation with Ilya Naishuller about it the day Nobody came out. Hardcore Henry 2 isn't happening, if y'all were wondering. He said he wants to do different stuff, that he's tired of pov.
As a vfx artist, and being a kid in highschool when it was announced, it blew me away, it definitly deserved more praise than what the critics and people have put this down for, it was so insanely amazing and a project I wish I could take on.
The editing and the explanation in this short video is to-notch as well! new sub!
So glad more and more people are talking about this film. Amazing action and effects and it cost a fraction of most Hollywood flops!
I remember seeing this film and just being absolutely mesmerized by the parkour the makings of a indie Video Game that I can see in the story. The lack of dialogue executed by so much visual dialogue instead is just something we will rarely or never get anymore.
I love seeing Hardcore Henry still getting love. I remember when it came out and I got to say it is still one of my favourite movies