A taut and strangely engrossing crime thriller that doesn’t pressure us into suspending disbelief; the pacing, structure, and characterization are such that we find ourselves swept into the narrative.
Full review by Chris Pandolfi.
Film Class Junkies' Headhunters Review, a Norwegian thriller that does not meet lofty expectations, but is still a fun mindless thrill ride.
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Harry Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a corporate headhunter and a talented art thief. He has a beautiful wife, Diana (Synnøve Macody Lund), but he lives way beyond his means and is on the edge of bankruptcy. In a chance meeting ,Harry is introduced to Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau of Game of Thrones fame), a successful electronics businessman and former NATO solider, the perfect candidate to become a senior manager of a company he has the contract for. Sweetening the deal, Greve has a lost Peter Rubens masterpiece that could solve Harry's money problems, but he has crossed the wrong man Greve hunts him down with more determination than The Terminator.
ClickOnline writes: "Headhunters is on the one hand a rather low key crime drama then, quite suddenly, it’s something else entirely. The second half of the film goes down a lurid, chase movie route which I wasn’t entirely prepared for, amping up the broad and dark humour and scrabbling to retain its footing as previous narrative logic heads for the hills"
