Henry removes the pump and receives a call from Jimmy, who directs Henry to a brothel. Just as Dimitry promises him information, he is killed by a sniper. Henry escapes, and hunts Dimitry through Moscow before capturing him. The two are attacked, and again Jimmy is killed. He is joined by another Jimmy, now an alcoholic bum, who informs him that one of Akan's associates, Slick Dimitry, has a charging pump which Henry needs to recharge. Jimmy is killed by corrupt police paid by Akan, but Henry escapes. Henry is rescued by a stranger named Jimmy, who informs him that his cybernetic limbs are running out of power, which will kill him if he cannot recharge. The mercenaries follow and abduct Estelle. He kills Estelle's scientists, but Henry and Estelle flee in an escape pod, landing in Moscow. Akan claims all of Estelle's research is his corporate property. She replaces his missing limbs with cybernetic prostheses, but mercenaries led by the psychokinetic Akan raid the ship before she can replace Henry's voice. A scientist, Estelle, tells him his name is Henry, claims to be his wife, and he has been revived from an accident that left him amnesiac and mute. Despite grossing $16.8 million worldwide against a $2 million budget, it was considered a box-office bomb in the US, due to STX spending $10 million to acquire global rights to the film.Ī man wakes inside a laboratory on an airship. It garnered mixed reviews in the US but was more positively received in Russia. The film was released theatrically in the United States by STXfilms on April 8, 2016. It stars Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett and Tim Roth. Will Stewart provided additional writing for the film. Hardcore Henry (also known simply as Hardcore ( Russian: Хардкор) in some countries) is a 2015 science fiction action film written and directed by Ilya Naishuller (in his feature directorial debut), and produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Naishuller, Inga Vainshtein Smith and Ekaterina Kononenko.
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