Old Henry 4K 2021 Ultra HD 2160p

A farmer and his son help a wounded man with a bag of cash. When an armed posse comes for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Keeping his guard up, he shoots in a way that calls his true identity into question.

Old Henry 4K Review
Brief synopsis:

A man with a dark past lives on a farm with his son and takes up arms after an encounter with bandits.

On the plus side:

-Tim Blake Nelson (the singing cowboy from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs).

- The relationship of an authoritarian father and his son, ready to run away from custody, is interestingly shown.

- A few interesting twists near the end.

On the downside:

- A worn out plot about a retired bad spider man (Unforgiven, Blackthorn), etc. Can't compare with the above movies. With Unforgiven, even more so. Ponciroli (as a director) and Nelson (as an actor) can't be compared with Clint Eastwood.

- Cinematography without raisins

- The general outline of the plot is completely predictable from about the 20th minute onwards.

- The film's questionable pacing when most of the movie melancholy drags the narrative along and suddenly bursts into action rather pointlessly about the same 20 minutes before the end of the movie.

- Tattered dramaturgy. In Old Henry, which basically behaves like a realistic and serious Western, the man unrealistically and counterintuitively transforms in one second from a '20 years on the ground' farmer, an almost pre-retired man into an invulnerable superman. It's as if Clark Kent, starring in a sad detective or a serious drama, suddenly ripped his shirt - and underneath it a tricot with the letter S. He's got them all torn up, and then in the same way Superman instantly mutates back into Henry/Clark Kent. Just because that's what the screenwriter's left heel wanted.