For years, video games have stolen characters, imagery and set pieces from cinema (I’m looking’ at you Dead Space!); with this week’s Hardcore Henry, the film industry is striking back. Director Ilya Nashuller and producer Timur Bekmambetov (auteur of the awesome Night Watch series) team up to create the first action flick shot entirely with a subjective camera. So, does it work? And will gamers, used to controlling said camera, approve?

The film starts off with a bang when Henry (played by…us?) is woken up by his scientist lover Estelle (Haley Bennett) to realize he has no memory. It’s quickly deduced that he’ll have to regain his identity (which includes his voice; Henry is virtually speechless for much of the movie) and take down a warlord who plans to bio-engineer soldiers. If you’re even a casual gamer, all of this will feel oddly familiar.