American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
情节够紧凑，不拖沓，有反转，又有不少西部片的影子。
不是说老亨利不能死，不过老亨利的死是说不通的，以老亨利的背景，可以想见当初将人带回来时，一定将该人搜索个遍了，以寻找他可以透露的身份信息，所以，类似手臂纹身是一定不会被忽视的。随便说一下，当初《巴斯特·斯克鲁格斯的歌谣》里的亮眼表演果然是人才。
镜头，片尾的背景弦乐不错，虽然是寻常的西部题材，但最后老
中规中矩，不过西部片的气质一直吸引着我，风景，服饰，和那里的出事规则。
传奇英雄，永恒话题，以一敌十的个人英雄主义。画面唯美，摄影感人。
感觉就像《卡拉是条狗》里吃着黄瓜的葛优突然成了扫地僧。
满满的西部风情，男主造型非常独特，很生活化，人物大都是脏兮兮的，拍得比较写实，没有一般西部片那种耍帅耍酷，但故事还是比较老套。
有点装。坏人都得死，曾经的坏人也得死，看来老美也讲政治正确。
讲了一个为抚养熊孩子浪费了大好青春的天才枪手亨利又回光返照的故事。
永远不要惹一个真正的杀手，即使枭雄迟暮。如同克林特伊斯特伍德的《不可饶恕》，当挤压的一切最终爆发的那一刻，情节也被推到了高潮，最后的反转颇为亮眼，随之亨利的死也是对其的自我救赎，很棒的作品。
这就是西部。
节奏有些拖沓了，高潮部分“快准狠”还行，就是爽的过程着实太快
非常Pure的西部体验，追踪、枪战，足矣。
我要是做混蛋，就做纯粹的那种。因为，首先，我是个纯粹的人。
很多人把宏大叙事拍的格局拉胯，该片反之
久违的西部电影的味道。没什么比一个把汗水留在地里的干瘪老农更让人觉得窝囊，尤其他还眇着一只眼。但是在西部，每个老男人的过去都可能是传奇。美国电影喜欢拍这种惹不起的主题，源自他开拓时代的尚武延续。
當今為數不多的西部片成長的故事 後傳奇時代 「這個世界變了 你可以看看」
The world is changing
《老亨利》（2021）：
亨利来，男人的世界。
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