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Shot entirely in the first person, viewers look through
Henry's perspective as he wakes up in a laboratory run by his
wife Estelle remembering nothing about who he is.
When the laboratory is broken into and Estelle is kidnapped,
Henry and the audience go on a frenzied 90 minutes of
first-person action, stunts and gore to get her back.
"It was immensely difficult, everything," Russian director Ilya
Naishuller told Reuters.
"I think the most fun was the script because I got to write from
the first person perspective which was pretty fresh."
The first person perspective is most prevalent in computer games
but Naishuller, who made music videos for his band Biting Elbows
with the same filmic perspective, is insistent the movie is not
a game adaptation.
"It was made for the cinema-goer in mind, it was a theatrical
experience that if you happen to play games you're going to
enjoy it a little bit more," he said.
"Everything Henry does in the film is done for real."
"Hardcore Henry", which has been praised for its technical
style, first screened at September's Toronto film festival and
begins its cinema roll out worldwide from April 6.
(Reporting By Rollo Ross; Editing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian and
Robin Pomeroy)
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