well done movie until last 5 minutes

the movie is well done until the end, and it just drives me nuts when i think of another movie which at least has the courage of its' convictions---"the rapture" . hey man, I AM AN ATHEIST, but i was enjoying
" henry" because it was a good MOVIE, not because it was going to "convert" me. if you want to get the ending you got to, find a better and more HONEST way to do it, that's all. to all except the writer and director, nice job on this movie. writer and director, go stand in the corner.

Funny that you say that, I saw that ending coming nearly the entire time. Right when we learned he was terminally ill, the title of the movie "Henry Poole is Here" went through my head... odd, isn't that phrase usually "was"? Yep, he's going to be miraculously cured somehow. And, indeed, the movie went on to draw this connection with the title more than once.

Also, the only reason they said "you were never sick" is because of the angle the story was trying to go for. They didn't want you to be able to be absolutely certain him not being sick was a miracle.

I think the ending supports the leap of faith required by Henry. By stating he was never sick, he is left to doubt, and now has supporting evidence, but instead he has gained belief. He knows that the doctor he saw was convinced and the original tests were accurate. Glad you liked the rest of the film as I hope the writer and actors find more traditional films like this.

Throughout the movie, Henry had options to believe or not. In the end, he is left with evidence that it could have all been a mistake. Too simple. I like that it required suspending disbelief.

yeah its like watching a track athlete doing hurdles. the movie was doing amazing well then about 70% through you see its laces unravel, but its still going strong. you cheer and it seems like the movie is going to make it thorugh, then its stumbles, you gasp, it clears the last hurdle, you cheer again, its seems like theres nothing left but to cross that finish line... thats when the movie drops to the ground and dies from a drug overdose.

i couldnt give this movie more than a 6.5 since there isnt any decimal options on this site i gave it a 6/10. I felt a bit cheated. I'd rather watch a movie that is crap than watch a movie become crap so abruptly.

I actually thought the movie could have ended after he smashed the wall to pieces.

No Hospital scenes, which btw had a kind of dreamy feeling to them, made me wonder if he was actually dead and everything that happened after the house fell down on him was just his idea of an afterlife. Or maybe it was ALL an alcohol-fueled hallucination based on the people he met in the neighborhood.

And even the real ending was ambiguous IMO. The movie is purposefully vague about his disease.

I mostly agree about the largest part of the movie, except the music, which I thought was the weak point until the turn.

Faced with the knowledge that the little girl went mute for over a year when her father left, Henry gets involved with her mother, knowing she tapes most everything she hears and she had just been there – why wouldn’t she follow Mom back?

Then the girl reverts, he finds and hears the tape, and still doesn’t go to the wall, if for no more than showing her he made an attempt to live. But part of that has to go on her mom too. She got involved with him and stayed after she knew the prognosis.

The Wizard of Oz reference is a stretch. When he leaned on the wall and his vision went all while, like Patience explained, we knew he’d been healed. Of course the hospital can’t find the disease (unspecified as it had been) or any trace of it ever having been there. It was another doctor’s decision that Henry had never been sick.

I maintain that I think Henry, having heard the girl recorded and heard her mother say Henry was dying, would go to the wall and put his palm on it for the girl’s sake.


"Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry."

I have to completely agree... The movies was spoiled in the last few minutes...