This film could have made a pretty good movie if it had been taken by another director, as the idea was, although implausible, but not bad, but what happened, it turned out – crime melodramatic comedy “Henry’s Crime”, directed by Malcolm Wenville, 2011.
He lived a simple guy Henry (Keanu Reeves), worked as a highway toll collector,
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This film could have made a pretty good movie if it had been taken by another director, as the idea was, although implausible, but not bad, but what happened, it turned out – crime melodramatic comedy “Henry’s Crime”, directed by Malcolm Wenville, 2011. He lived a simple guy Henry (Keanu Reeves), worked as a highway toll collector, had a girlfriend (or wife?). Debbie, dreaming of a child, but he had no such thing as a dream, he just floated with the flow, not thinking or dreaming about anything. One evening, his friend came to him, asking him to replace a baseball player who allegedly became ill (later it turns out that this is just the usual reaction of this guy to a potentially dangerous situation), and in the end it turned out that the company decided to rob a bank, putting him in the driver's seat, they failed, they managed to escape, but Henry was arrested and, moreover, imprisoned for three years, because he did not tell how it really was. While in prison, he was in the same cell as Max (James Caan), a professional inmate, a former trust thief who loved life in prison and didn’t want to get out of it. From him, Henry learns for the first time that you should have a dream, otherwise life is not interesting, and why not commit a crime if you are already sitting for it, although you did not commit it. He leaves prison on parole after a year and goes straight to that unfortunate bank, and there he, who was stuck on the road, is knocked down by the actress of the local theater Julia (Vera Farmiga). Once in the toilet of a nearby cafe, he sees an 80-year-old newspaper on the wall, from which he learns that there was a tunnel between the local theater and the bank, used by local bootleggers. It dawns on him - you need to find him and use it to rob a bank. It's a dream, but you need accomplices! The first person he turns to is Max, who initially turns him down. And then begins this whole chain of events, which will fit even the production in the local theater “Cherry Orchard”, in which he at the suggestion of Julia even play the role of Lopahin. This time the robbery succeeds, but Henry doesn't need the money, he only wants Julia, with whom he has fallen in love. We see a seemingly happy ending for them, but it is, of course, open, because the discovery of the loss of money lies ahead. Like I said, it could have been pretty good, but I think it was a bit boring. And it's not the play in the movie that's to blame, it's the way it's presented to us.
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