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| The slick, original poster for Morten Tyldum's Headhunters |
QUICK REVIEW:
Roger is just 1.68 meters tall; he cheats and steals art pieces, beside his headhunting job, to fund his consumerist high-life. A candidate for a job owns an expensive painting that Roger now decides to steal. But this candidate is more dangerous than expected.
Headhunters is an exciting and handsomely produced romantic action thriller, based on Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø's (The Leopard/Panserhjerte (2011)) 2008 novel of the same name.
Once the hunt really gets started, the film gets unnecessarily gross. And the girlfriend's loyalty throughout the film is more than a little incredible. But Headhunters is still a very finely chiseled thriller with a somewhat surprising ending, SPOILER in which Roger leaves 'the game'.
It is written by Ulf Ryberg (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest/Luftslottet som Sprängdes (2009)) and Lars Gudmestad (The Orheim Company/Kompani Orheim (2012)) and directed by Norwegian shooting star director Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game (2014)), who is now in pre-production with a thriller, Pattern Recognition, and a supernatural series, Counterpart.
Related review:
Morten Tyldum: The Imitation Game (2014) - Great Cumberbatch, good movie
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| Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Morten Tyldum's Headhunters |
Watch the English-subtitled trailer for the film here
Cost: 30 mil. NOK. (around 4 mil. $)
Box office: 15.3 mil. $
= Big hit
[Headhunters is the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time, (although a Swedish-Danish-Norwegian-German co-production, it is mostly a Norwegian film.) It was a big hit in Norway, where 557k paid admission. It has gotten great reviews and several award nominations and a few wins. It made 1.1 mil. $ (7 % of the total gross) in the US.]
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