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Time Out described it as a "Quiet Triumph" and I tend to agree. It's not the best movie ever made but is clever, multi-layered (stories within stories within...) and an interesting, often tongue in cheek, look at acting as a process. It is enjoyable, although slightly uncomfortable in places as Farmiga plays self reliant/involved diva and ego-above-her-status-actress very well and with great aplomb. Caan's comic relief as the wannabe lifer adds some one liners and fun to a film that has an old-fashioned serious classic quality both in style and direction (something to do with dimensions of camera angles/screen apparently), and the soundtrack is brilliant. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard lends a certain gravitas to the proceedings, and a backdrop for the real-life storyline, as does Reeves' deliberate delivery and method metamorphosis from downtrodden bored/boring-but-nice average Joe to cavalier passionate lovestruck criminal-mastermind, which is impressive! I think this film is a slow burner... after watching it, it stayed in my mind and I want to see it again, sure there will be more layers and nuances that I missed.

Henry's Crime from 2010 was a nice surprise.

The film stars Keanu Reeves as Henry, a man who seems to go through life like a sleepwalker. When his friends ask him to fill in at a baseball game for their sick friend, Henry goes along.

When ALL of them go to the ATM at the bank and ask him to wait outside, Henry goes along. And then he goes along to prison after the bank is robbed, taking the fall for his friends.

While in prison, Henry meets Max (James Caan), a confidence man who loves prison and botches his parole hearings every time. Max's philosophy is, to find a purpose, you have to have a dream. Apparently his is to stay in prison.

Once released, Henry, who at this point has no life, decides that since he was accused of robbing the bank and didn't, he's going to rob it now. He discovers that a long-ago tunnel into the bank still exists from the theater next door. It means talking Max into getting parole. And it also means getting a role in "The Cherry Orchard."

A top cast that includes Vera Farmiga and Peter Stomare, who gives a hilarious turn as the director of the Chekov play, really liven up this film. It's an intriguing if improbable plot; they make it fun.

Reeves to me isn't much of an actor, but he pulls off Henry just fine. I'm not sure what his secret is, but he always seems to look the same age.

Farmiga as the actress anxious to get out of town is excellent, and Caan is terrific. Fisher Stevens is on hand as one of Henry's robbery "friends," who turns up again.

This is a little gem that apparently only played in 8 U. S. theaters.

I will admit the main reason I decided to watch this movie was because Keanu Reeves is in it. Not that I find him to be a great actor or anything like that but I enjoyed a lot of the stuff he was in. I though this actor never ages but in this you can tell the guy is getting old now. And although I never found Reeves to be a great actor he fit in very well for a role like this. "If you did the time you might as well have done the crime". Is one of the quote in this movie and that is what the character Henry(Keanu Reeves) goes by after getting out of prison for a crime that he was unintentionally a part of. But his motives are quite different than most criminals that tries to commit a crime. Yeah Keanu although entertaining to watch his presence in movies is bashed upon for not being a great actor like I said before. But in a role like this he fits right in and is actually believable. As a character who is a quite, reserved person and is also a person that lacks ambition but has a kind heart. I didn't find the chemistry between him and the actress Vera Farmiga all that great since the actress isn't likable at all. And just comes off loud and selfish in my opinion but who am I to judge when it comes to someone falling in love. I gotta say though the actress is really good and her acting was top notch and believable, like as if she is like that in real life. Overall I didn't find this movie all that entertaining and found the chemistry to be lacking, but it's passable barely.

6.5/10

Yep, this is a fun movie with great actors acting as actors. Henry (Keanu Reeves), a tollbooth worker in Buffalo is falsely convicted of a bank robbery. While in prison he meets a lifer (James Caan) and learns about life and having a dream. Once released from prison Henry hatches a plan of his own. Why not rob the bank that he was already sent to prison for?

Little did he think that love (Vera Farmiga,) greed (Fisher Stevens,) and fate may change his objective?

The acting is good. The pacing is good. The only annoying thing was the loud irritating irrelevant background music if you can call it that.

Unfortunately, there is no end, so if you want one, do not start this movie.

This comedic film, "Henry's Crime" is well worth watching for its entertainment value alone. It is not a masterpiece by any means, however, it is fun to see and relaxing for the brief viewing. The screenplay is by Sacha Gervasi and David N. White, and it is slick to say the least. There are several stories incorporated into one big belly laugh, and it is well woven to surprise and entertain. Keanu Reeves is the lead character, Henry Torne, and he is well cast with perfect timing and humor. James Caan plays Max Salzman, the cohort in crime who is brilliant as the newly released con with induced ideas that boggle the mind. It is a great comedy and having been released in 2010 can be seen on Blue Ray disc with exceptional quality. Don't miss a fun filled evening with "Henry's Crime" as your center piece.

In Buffalo, Henry Torne (Keanu Reeves) is a man without ambition in a lifeless marriage to Debbie (Judy Greer). Eddie Vibes (Fisher Stevens) asks him to replace a sick man in his baseball game. In reality, they just need him to drive the getaway for a bank robbery. He's arrested by Frank (Bill Duke) even though he's clueless to the robbery. He's sentenced to 3 years but he doesn't give away Eddie. He gets Max Saltzman (James Caan) as his cell mate who tells him that if he does the time, he may as well do the crime. He gets out and he's happy to find Debbie is pregnant with new guy Joe. He goes to the bank and gets run over by Julie Ivanova (Vera Farmiga).

Keanu Reeves is doing his detached acting. It tries to be quirky. Farmiga is almost funny but Reeves is too much of a dead zone. He sucks up any of the comedic tension and all that remains is something flat and uninteresting. If Reeves must do the role, this movie may be better as a dark intense tale.

I went to see this movie yesterday and I have been positively surprised.

Keanu Reeves has given a great performance as Henry, the main character. The chemistry between Reeves and his counterparts (Vera Farmiga and James Caan) was really good and palpable.

The story was convincing, well written and from start to finish I actually believed in what was happening on the screen. Vera Farmiga, who plays the female lead character, is superb, credible and bitter enough to give convincing diva acting in the Checov's Cherry orchard play, which is crucial for the dynamic development of the movie itself.

I left the theatre thinking I wanted to see it again.

Highly recommended.

Last year when Keanu Reeves and the rest of the cast was here in Buffalo shooting Henry's Crime, there was a great deal of civic pride that some film company and a major star had found Buffalo praiseworthy enough to shoot a motion picture here. Certain Buffalo landmarks were quite recognizable on Main Street and I'm convinced that the use of the famous Shea's Theater was the main reason for the shoot. A great deal of the film is shot inside there because a production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is integral to the plot.

There are two crimes in Henry's Crime. The first is the one Keanu Reeves got left holding the bag for when he drove some friends to what was an ATM stop and it turned out to be a bank robbery on Buffalo's Main Street. After doing the time and spending it there with a wise old convict played by James Caan, Reeves decides that maybe the state owes him one bank robbery.

In the meantime Reeves gets a romance going with actress Vera Famiga who tells her director he's a natural to play in their stock company production of The Cherry Orchard. That works out real well because from Shea's Theater there is an old tunnel that runs across the street to the Buffalo Savings Bank which actually is one block down. The tunnel was from Prohibition days and it's a long tunnel.

Reeves's two friends from the first robbery who suckered him Fisher Stevens and Danny Hoch cut themselves in as well as Bill Duke the security guard who nailed Reeves the first time also cut themselves in. You have to see the film for the rest.

Henry's Crime for me has its moments. Reeves is a confusing mixture of dis-ingenuousness and innocence in his character. James Caan as the worldly wise convict steals the film for me. But I wound up asking myself what have I just seen when I finished the film.

By the way on Main Street in Buffalo there is no automobile traffic save for police and emergency vehicles and mail and UPS trucks. What he was driving there for would have been picked up immediately by any resident of this city.

But we're all not from Buffalo.

this is so dull and boring, i cant believe my friend bought the DVD, in fact shes taking it back to the store as she also admits its the worst keanu reeves film ever. its more of a play than a film. It shouldn't have been made as a film, keanu is wrongly jailed for bank robbery and then we have to endure a seriously long drawn out boring tale of him becoming a theatre actor so he can rob the bank via the theatre next to the bank, snore alert zzzzzz. i was so bored by the story, there are plenty of good films on this topic eg heat or point break but henrys crime is hopeless ill never watch it again as long as i live. Overall its the story thats the let down, i just couldn't get into it, you watch movies to be entertained, this just frustrates and bores you.

Can Henry get away with it? This is the type of movie where we want him to succeed, like in "Ocean's Eleven".

In a better movie, James Caan would have been nominated for an Oscar for his excellent portrayal of Max. He is the standout performer here.

Vera Farmiga is quite good as Julie, who is better than this sorry role. And yet she gives it her all. What she does on stage and in rehearsals is worthy of being seen on the Tonys.

Keanu Reeves is okay. Not bad. Not great. He's better in the Chekhov play.

Fisher Stevens does a very good job. I'm used to seeing him as a basically nice guy who is sleazy, but here is is just bad. Not bad in that sense. He's very good at being bad.

There's no clear ending. I will say that much. So I'm not quite sure what happens. But the climactic scene is pretty amazing.

It's really worth seeing.

Mediocre and not so good acting. A film to kill time and bores you even more 😂 the girl was the only exception. And the ending is a Hollywood stable very set a claim romance.

I keep waiting to see Keanu do somethings else other than dish out dull, monosyllabic utterances that are supposed to be taken as some sort of ground-breaking wisdom. He fails to rise up and grab any opportunity for display of emotion even when goaded to by the play's director (for example) and as a person who falls in love well, he leaves you speechless. The comedic elements such as they were remained ungrasped by Reeves and just slip on by. James Caan, of course is fantastic and gives a very creditable performance as an ex-con and ex- con man. What a role that would be for him as the lead actor!. Vera Farmiga is a delight once I got over the idiocy of her character driving and talking phone at the same time. The plot was pretty dreadful really and it boggles me to think that someone actually spent time coming up with such drivel. What was it about? A bank heist? A play? Falling in love? Jail time? None of it was given much depth.

I like Keanu Reeves, but he has turned out a disappointing uninspired performance in this film. It may not be his fault because the storytelling itself was quite dull. Events unfold tediously without really building up. I think it was because the music failed to do its job of creating the tension at the right time. Nice songs in the background, but that's no excuse for not having a good score.

Throw out your preconceptions of bank heist films and you have a good start on "Henry's Crime". This one is a left-field success. The story isn't at all remarkable, other than it was imagined and realized. The thing that makes this flick fly is the fantastic performances. No one is acting, they're just being really low-key engaging. This makes the parts greater than the whole. You've seen some great movies with James Caan, but did you expect another now? I've sensed Keanu Reeves could use his "stiffness" to great effect if something which depended on that came along and this is it. Add some rich flavor with Vera Farmiga and a slight undercurrent of comedy and director Malcolm Venille delivers just the right end result.

This bank heist film is more a comedic love story than anything…And, it works. A slacker, who is actually happy married and going nowhere, becomes a witless victim of circumstance. While in prison he is told he has to have a dream or his life is meaningless. Once more circumstance intervenes and he realizes what he has longed for is the meaning life has once its shared. The trouble is that he is a bit slow to come to that realization and the dream he imagined, that being a bank robbery without violence, really isn't his dream at all. The whole thing is juxtaposed by his becoming an actor, the suitor, in Chekhov's play "The Orchard Thief". Again, low-key brilliance.

This movie entertains first and foremost. It passes as if it is ten minutes due to the uniformly excellent performances of the cast. The direction gets out of the way and there isn't any need for any special effects or senseless action. It ends in the best possible way as to not try to tie up anything past the found love between two people. Simply put, entertaining low-key brilliant thus highly recommended.

"Henry's Crime" presents itself as a comedic modern noir in the vein of films like "The Ice Harvest" and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". It creates a pretty solid tone, and all of the parts surrounding the core are created well. James Caan and Peter Stormare do fine work and the plot could have been interesting enough, but it all falls apart when it gets to that core. I've never been as hard of a hater of Keanu Reeves as most people seem to be, but here he completely destroys the film.

If there had been an actor with some charisma like Robert Downey Jr. or Colin Farrell sitting at the top of this film, it would have been a nice little slice of modern noir. Instead we get Reeves, who couldn't be more wooden if he tried. At first I thought this was part of the character, the guy just being an empty man who has no motivation. But when he gets the idea to rob the bank the he was falsely imprisoned for robbing already, the character talks about how he finally has a dream in his life and something to look forward to. Hell, he even supposedly falls in love with Vera Farmiga's character, a semi-failed theater actress. Yet no matter what he is saying about how excited he is, Reeves couldn't seem more bored. I can't possibly understand how the director was making this film and saw the dailies and thought, "Okay, great job Keanu." It's impossible not see how bad and stale this performance is.

In stark contrast with Reeves' disastrous work though, is Vera Farmiga, who once again shows that she is one of the finest actresses to grace the screen. She is superb here, brimming with life from her very first scene where she hits Reeves with her car, gets out and immediately starts shouting at him. The character is unique and unfortunately she has to work opposite Reeves so the relationship is impossible to buy and has no chemistry, but Farmiga is on fire all the way through. She is completely full of life and charisma, whether she is cackling a laugh, breaking down in hysterics or snapping wildly at the theater director. A great performance in an unfortunately ruined film.

My title pretty much sums it up. The pace of the movie is excruciatingly slow and Reeves is as wooden as he ever was. Caan on the other hand nailed his role as did Peter Storemare who always turns in a good performance. But the snail's pace kills what could have been a reasonable film