Reviews of Headhunters 2012
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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.
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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.
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Jaime Lannister does things and a man has a bad time
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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.
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Sharp, cool thrills.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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(i just wanted to put a tag dont make me write a review)
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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…