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Universal acclaim- based on 50 Ratings

  • Starring: Aksel Hennie, Julie R. Ølgaard, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund
  • Summary: Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man. (Magnolia Pictures) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Apr 26, 2012
    90
    Headhunters is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities.
  2. Reviewed by: Anthony Lane
    May 4, 2012
    80
    Headhunters is admirably swift in style, and dangerously silly in what it begs us to swallow, but at its heart is a consummate depiction of a permanent type - the proud and prickly male, thrown back on his desperate wits. Small may not be beautiful, but it lives.
  3. Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    Jun 28, 2012
    80
    An absurd amount of grisly fun, which is a good thing, since, looked at in any great detail, it probably doesn't hold up all that well.
  4. Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    Apr 24, 2012
    60
    Plenty of twisty scripting makes the queasy damage seem conceptually neat and tidy, as if that's a good idea, but what we need here is a little more meat.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. What a great movie. I guess this will be the Norwegian entry for the Academy Awards. Very good story, fast, intelligent, very good lead actor, wonderful performances in general. Sure it's all about that special thing in the motion picture industry, I guess this Director has just built his ..., it starts with an 'r' ;) Collapse
  2. The most intense, exciting and well-made movie I have seen in YEARS! Probably the best EVER in it's genre!! A must see for anyone and everyone, take all your friends!!! Expand
  3. A great Norwegian crime/thriller, very entertaining. Well acted from everyone involved, interesting story and well directed. Synnøve Macody Lund and Aksel Hennie were standouts for me, especially considering that it was Lund's first time in a movie. As for the story, it's a well crafted puzzle that all fits together perfectly in the end. Very intriguing and smart. But not as funny as other people are saying it is, this is definitely not a dark comedy. The movie does however slow down in the parts of the middle but never for long, some parts are a little "ridiculous" but not overly ridiculous as other crime movies. A great film if you don't mind subtitles. 8.8/10. Expand
  4. 7
    An enjoyable and entertaining film for the first two thirds at which point it loses its plausibility and seems to rush to a finish. Still, this film was better than the last three I had seen. The violence was gory but since it was not widespread throughout it did not detract from the story. I wish they had not rushed the last third of the film so we could absorb the resolution. The finale ventured into the realm of the implausible which lost points with me. Still, an entertaining film overall and well worth a visit to the theater. Expand

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