Female Film Critics 24/375
Every Western since the last Roy Rogers and Dale Evans production has been declared a rewrite on the genre. Old Henry would fit that declaration as it is not like the ones made in the Fifties or the ones made for television in the Sixties. It is like the ones made with buckets of blood and gallons of gore, but Old Henry adds secrecy.
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After a botched train robbery, this horror/Western finds the legendary Dalton gang taking shelter in a mysterious ghost town where nothing is as it seems at first glance. The film’s a muddled mess, containing one line of dialogue that mirrors my reaction perfectly, when a gang member mutters: “I’ve had enough of this strange shit.”
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Set in the late 1800s, the spooky script from fellow first-timer Teresa Sutherland centers on Lizzy Macklin (Caitlin Gerard, “Insidious: The Last Key”), a practical German immigrant industriously building a life alongside her God-fearing husband Isaac (Ashley Zukerman) on an isolated stretch of the Great Plains.
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Set in 1851 in the Northwest Territory between Oregon and California, French director Jacques Audiard’s first English-language film revives the sprawling Western for a new generation. Hot-tempered, hard-drinking Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and his shy, introspective older brother Eli (John C. Reilly) work as contract killers for a shadowy boss known as the Commodore (Rutger Hauer).
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