• Toby

    ★★★★ Watched by Toby 16 May, 2013

    A touching story about a manlet who overcomes his fear that his height makes him inadequate.

    View

  • Charlie Derry

    ★★★★½ Watched by Charlie Derry 14 May, 2013 4

    A gripping Norwegian crime drama and one of the best thrillers I have seen in recent years. Intensely violent and brutally graphic, Headhunters is full of unpredictable twists, suspense, brilliant characters, and a smart construction. Aksel Hennie is excellent in the lead role, but most of all it's great to see Nikolaj Coster-Waldau speak his native tongue. He makes an excellent villain (one that this time we won't come around to) and both characters can be loved and hated at one point or another.

    View

  • sidasta

    ★★★★★ Watched by sidasta 15 May, 2013

    A truly gripping thriller from the start to the very end, but it's not just that. So many films try to sell themselves using a deeper theme of "love", but I think this is one of those rare films that actually manages to get that message across.

    Darkly comedic, horribly graphic and refreshingly smart cinema.

    View

  • Andrew Lowther

    ★★★★ Watched by Andrew Lowther 11 May, 2013

    Jaime Lannister does things and a man has a bad time

    View

  • Stefan Griens

    ★★★ Watched by Stefan Griens 11 May, 2013

    Fun movie built around a caper, well paced and a few fun plot twists. Yet it is somewhat let down by generic directing and the viewer having to sympathize with essentially a douche.

    View

  • Jordan Richardson

    ★★★★ Watched by Jordan Richardson 06 Dec, 2012

    Sharp, cool thrills.

    View

  • michaeljcollin

    ★★★★½ Added by michaeljcollin

    I watched this some time ago, so I won't be able to go into much detail.
    Another great find on Netflix Instant...

    Put your reading glasses on and enjoy this smart, well above-average thriller.

    View

  • Andy Summers

    ★★★½ Watched by Andy Summers 06 May, 2013 1

    Berken's 30 Countries Challenge film # 6-Norway

    Headhunters is a hard film to categorise. Ostensibly a thriller it does veer towards both revenge flick and the horror genre in a complex and paranoia inducing plot. With some truly graphic scenes and a stand-out performance by Aksel Hennie this was a real mind-bender of a film that has further elevated the Scandinavian film industry after some fantastic tv series (The Killing,Wallander,The Bridge) and Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy had brought the world's…

    View

  • Mark Steadman

    ★★★★ Watched by Mark Steadman 01 Jan, 2013

    Great film based on a funny book. I might've enjoyed the film more than the book actually, and I'm a big Jo Nesbo fan.

    It captures the essence of the insecure, stature-obsessed protagonist, and the bits it misses out - which flesh out the character but don't give you much to look at - are made up for in the second half.

    I'll look forward to an English language version, if - like Dragon Tattoo - Hollywood can resist the knee-jerk urge to drag it out of Norway to somewhere less interesting.

    View

  • Ben Carroll

    ★★★★ Added by Ben Carroll

    Who would have thought Norway had so much hidden angst. The 2011 outfit Headhunters has the air of the Korean new wave, brilliantly set up and sparring no grit on the realism scale. However, it would be unfair on the film to focus on its cinematic gore, as the unraveling of the story is where this outfit's merit props it up. Lulling you into a false sense of security, you're led to believe in a cliché ridden heist movie befitting…

    View

  • Paige

    Added by Paige

    (i just wanted to put a tag dont make me write a review)

    View

  • John Tai

    ★★★★ Watched by John Tai 30 Apr, 2013

    I had a great time with this film. I kept expecting it to be a certain type of film, but it kept changing those expectations. At first I thought it'd be a heist movie in the art world. Then I thought it was a mystery movie. Then it was just a kick ass thriller. Ultimately that's what I enjoyed about it, a good thriller with a tense cat and mouse chase.

    Jamie Lannister (from Game of Thrones, too lazy to…

    View