John Henry

Not sure why low reviews. Takes a classic folktale and mixes it with the urban lifestyle of Compton. Love it

They took a good book and made it suck, The movie should have never been release....

Quite possibly the worst movie of all time. Shame on all involved!

Seeing Terry Crews in a serious role is awesome. Loved the movie. I would advise to watch it with an open mind...don't look for a John Wick feel....just watch it and give it time. You will enjoy it

Was a great watch love Terry Crews in anything, the sound track was brilliant and I was gripped to the end. Only negative was I didn't understand who Oscar was and there was not much depth to some of the characters. We could of also done with subtitles for the Spanish segments.

This film shows Terry Crews in a serious role and he excels. What beat me is how it can have a lower rating than Borat 2.

Yeeaahhhhh I was disappointed after watching this movie. Dont get me wrong I like Terry & Luda, but first off the plot & screen play seemed as if it was written by someone whos on meth. The Hispanic & Terrys father didnt even have to die, Terry looked weird af after he shaved his face & wtf was up with the random ass clips of Compton. No offense Im but it was just a lot useless confusing nonsense throughout the movie. Try again.

Good Lord! This movie was beyond terrible. Other than a few funny moments from John Henry's father, the entire thing unwatchable!

When a movie is so bad, I don't finish. That's what happened here.

Still confused. So this is the story of, unsurprisingly, John Henry (Terry Crews). He is about to come to a crossroads in his life when his path crosses with a young immigrant (Jamila Velazquez). He has given up violence because of his past, will he revisit it to give her a future? Now you probably missed this at the beginning of the year, but I can't blame you, as it's not like this had a marketing push behind it. I like Terry Crews as an actor even though he will sometimes make problematic statements on Twitter, so when I saw that this was available on Netflix streaming, I said why not. Well, let me tell you: I should have kept on scrolling. I will be honest and say that I don't know a ton about the mythology of the folk hero John Henry, all I know is that he is a huge larger-than-life black man, so it makes sense for them to get Crews for the part. On paper, I don't think this movie was a bad idea. The concept is to update this legend to be in Los Angeles and make it into a pseudo modern Western. It honestly sounds like a movie that Tarantino would make in the latter part of his career. The problem here is that all of this is put together by people who don't know what they're doing. This movie has no flow at all, and it is just poor filmmaking with even worse story editing. There are several VHS flashbacks that don't serve any purpose to the plot; they're almost like chapter breaks for some reason, and when the movie is not focused on that, you have these random asides that go nowhere. I mean really, you have tangents about white bats, gangsters analyzing Human Centipede, and you even have poor Terry Crews being forced to flirt with a woman while purchasing tampons. I would criticize the actors in this, as everything here fails spectacularly, but I'm not going to do that since I know Crews is a better actor than this and he walks away looking like a WWE star in his first movie. It is more of the fault of the dialogue than anything, and I don't think that Oscar winners would be able to inject life into this script. This movie pulls the difficult feat in that it manages to be over-the-top crazy and excruciatingly dull at the same time. You spend the majority of this movie waiting for something interesting to happen, and it never kicks in. If this ever got to be popular, I would be concerned that it would set minorities back a decade with how they are portrayed, but nobody's going to watch this. All of these criticisms aside, this movie could have earned some points back if it gave you what you automatically assumed you would get from a movie called John Henry: a large black man hitting people with a hammer. That is here, but only in the last ten minutes, and that should tell you everything that you need to know. John Henry is an incompetent mess, and it is one of the worst movies of the year.