Headhunters (2011)
(Hodejegerne)
Country: NOR/GER
Technical: col 100m
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund
Synopsis:
The director of a recruitment agency, anxious to hold onto his trophy wife, supplements his income by stealing and fencing artworks from the homes of his clients. When a chance meeting with the retired CEO of a company specialising in GPS promises the opportunity of a decisive killing, he instead finds his marriage and his own life under threat.
Review:
This modishly extreme Scandinavian thriller boasts a novel concept and insight into modern cutthroat business practices, but has a plot with more holes than its hapless hero by the time they have finished, culminating in an impossibly pat dénouement which wants to be Thomas Crown, but isn't. Still, it moves at a lick, is directed with an eye for mise-en-scène (the hero's colourless house-office-car lifestyle contrasting with the muck and blood into which he is plunged), and Hennie makes for a fetchingly unsympathetic lead, like a young Christopher Walken.
(Hodejegerne)
Country: NOR/GER
Technical: col 100m
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund
Synopsis:
The director of a recruitment agency, anxious to hold onto his trophy wife, supplements his income by stealing and fencing artworks from the homes of his clients. When a chance meeting with the retired CEO of a company specialising in GPS promises the opportunity of a decisive killing, he instead finds his marriage and his own life under threat.
Review:
This modishly extreme Scandinavian thriller boasts a novel concept and insight into modern cutthroat business practices, but has a plot with more holes than its hapless hero by the time they have finished, culminating in an impossibly pat dénouement which wants to be Thomas Crown, but isn't. Still, it moves at a lick, is directed with an eye for mise-en-scène (the hero's colourless house-office-car lifestyle contrasting with the muck and blood into which he is plunged), and Hennie makes for a fetchingly unsympathetic lead, like a young Christopher Walken.
(Hodejegerne)
Country: NOR/GER
Technical: col 100m
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund
Synopsis:
The director of a recruitment agency, anxious to hold onto his trophy wife, supplements his income by stealing and fencing artworks from the homes of his clients. When a chance meeting with the retired CEO of a company specialising in GPS promises the opportunity of a decisive killing, he instead finds his marriage and his own life under threat.
Review:
This modishly extreme Scandinavian thriller boasts a novel concept and insight into modern cutthroat business practices, but has a plot with more holes than its hapless hero by the time they have finished, culminating in an impossibly pat dénouement which wants to be Thomas Crown, but isn't. Still, it moves at a lick, is directed with an eye for mise-en-scène (the hero's colourless house-office-car lifestyle contrasting with the muck and blood into which he is plunged), and Hennie makes for a fetchingly unsympathetic lead, like a young Christopher Walken.