John Henry

It never quite reaches its ambitious heights. It wants to be something, but it's kinda just a cheesy B-genre movie.

"John Henry" is a lead-footed revenge thriller that lands with all the subtlety of the mighty steel-driving man's sledgehammer.

A thug-life thriller so frequently preposterous that it almost resembles a parody.

Crews is an actor with enough charisma and range to carry either gritty genre adventures or more cartoony showdowns; but Forbes' tonal uncertainty and a stiff script leave him stranded here...

Flashes of craft can't make up for the director's easy default to gore over story.

I didn't make it all the way through it.

Before anyone thinks that the crime drama John Henry has anything to do with the story of the African American folk hero John Henry, the first 15 minutes of this laughably horrible film will make it clear that the name is just a gimmick.

The whole movie made no sense, the acting was terrible and it was all over the place...

A waste; a terrible movie that isn't even "good-bad," not entertaining. And I had a surprisingly tough time following along...

A loud, aimless 97-minute exercise in futility with the subtlety of a sledge hammer against the head.