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

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 them 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.

Toll-booth attendant Henry (Keanu Reeves) serves jail time for a bank heist he didn't commit. On being released he determines to rob the same bank (on the grounds that he might as well, as he has already served the time). He recruits cellmate Max (James Caan) to help with a plan involving using an old tunnel between the bank and the theatre next door. The theatre is rehearsing Chekov's The Cherry Orchard and we find Max both performing and falling for actress Julie (Vera Farmiga).

I knew little about this film going in: only a synopsis briefer than the one in the preceding paragraph. In particular, I did not know what genre the film fitted into and, consequently, I spent the opening half hour or more trying to figure out what sort of movie I was watching.

I am no wiser.

But I don't think it matters. It features comic elements and there are points when you chuckle, but it isn't a comedy (possibly more of a comedy of errors than an outright comedy). It might be classed as a drama except, to be perfectly frank, it is so totally improbable that it seems unfair to classify it as a drama. There are elements of romance except, again...

I never lost interest, and I was entertained throughout, but I left the cinema thoroughly bemused as to what exactly I had just watched.

I think the overall improbability is what works most strongly against the film, together with Keanu Reeves' Henry during the first half hour or more. Henry shows no reaction to anything, to the extent that I wondered if he was supposed to be simple minded. You never know what he is feeling or thinking and, therefore, what his motivations are and, given the plot line, this is a serious failing. And it's a failing in the conception of the character, not in Reeves' acting, because Henry suddenly starts reacting and behaving normally about a third of the way through.

James Caan is clearly having a great deal of fun as Max, and Vera Farmiga continues to impress by cutting a thoroughly believable Julie out of unlikely cloth. And Peter Stormare as a caricature Russian director is almost worth the price of admission on his own.

This movie is worth trying out if you fancy something which doesn't obviously fit any conventional stereotype.