Alicia I love this movie so much

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

SnoopyStyle Roger Brown is a brash corporate headhunter in Norway. He spends more money than he has on his statuette wife Diana with her model looks who runs an art gallery. He's trying to compensate for his short statue but the one thing she really wants is a child. He cheats on her with Lotte and is also an art thief to support his extravagant spending. He and his unstable partner-in-crime Ove Kjikerud replace the originals with forgeries to buy time. Diana introduces Roger to a wealthy former-businessman Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau).I love this character with his inferiority complex. He's a Napolean figure and I like his marital relationship. He's a fresh take on the art thief. Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau is a great threatening presence. The chase thriller is great. However there are a couple of unreal twists at the end. The ending should be more interesting.

templar77099 "Hodejegerne" or "Headunters" is a Norwegian film directed by Morten Tyldum who you might know for the last year's Oscar contender "The Imitation Game". Despite knowing the praise that this film received, I didn't know it would be this good.I watched it yesterday and the characters are still in my head, specially the main one, Roger Brown, played by Aksel Hennie whose first film I saw was "Last Knights" and the difference in the acting is day from night. He is so good in this one, playing a insecure man who makes his money by stealing art paintings. On the other side we have the menacing Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau, the Jaime Lannister of Game of Thrones who is probably becoming one of my favourite performers in the industry. He commits himself to any role and he is quite amazing. He has the looks and the acting chops and I believe we'll see more of him in the future. I must also make a nod to the two feminine characters in this one : Diana Brown, Roger's wife, played by Synnøve Macody Lund, who is surprisingly good, one of that kind of actress who deserves a place in the spotlight and Lotte, played by Julie R. Ølgaard, another actress who is just amazing. "Headhunters" is certainly the proof that foreign films can be brilliant! An American remake is on the plans but I'm sure it won't surpass the original. This one is clearly overlooked. Watch it!

The Scatman Let's get straight to the point, we have an affluent entrepreneur, (Roger Brown, an every-man's name) who, like so many lead characters, finds themselves dissatisfied with their lifestyle and make the crucial error of reaching for the forbidden unreachable.How does it happen? - Art theft. What makes it even better? The film is all about lead characters 'framing' one another, so off that premise I can certainly confirm something witty, something original and something fleshed out, that manages to not compromise itself with the oft visited action genre/scene that has been tainted heavily by ruinous releases from Hollywood - I could list them for eternity, but I won't. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) the 'headhunter' or 'corporate recruiter' finds himself messing with the wrong guy, an ex-mercenary, Clas Greve that is exquisitely acted by the now renowned Game of Thrones actor, Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau. From this, the film goes from strength to strength as we see Shakespearean-esque deception take the plot with both hands, and drive a previously 'secure' businessman into the ground as the theme of survival in rebirth is widely presented throughout. Themes of love, death, trust and religion are also in the mix and do come to capitalise in the latter scenes of the film, where the ultimate bond of trust through love is tested. It is all bound together in a good range of scenery, quality actors and a sound budget that doesn't make the film seem pretentious or "trying too hard" to be what it isn't. Overall I wasn't swayed by the subtitles, if anything it made the film seem so much more genuine to me. The acting delivered an above par thrill ride and the violence was just about right to quench any person's thirst for a very decent action flick. They rarely make them like this anymore... 9/10

carbuff I can't help myself. I'm awfully jaded at this point in my movie- viewing career and the thing I look for and care about most is originality. I really like odd, weird, or different, since I've seen nearly every possible permutation of normal and ordinary by now. That's why an unusual plot like this automatically scores a few extra points in my book, regardless of its other merits (or demerits, for that matter).Now, I don't want to give anything away here, but this movie gets pretty bloody and grim around halfway through, and I never thought it could be tied up in a neat fashion, but I was very wrong. It's slowly developing, but ultimately really original, gripping and twisty (twisted?). Definitely another hidden gem in the foreign thriller category--make it through the slow build-up and the brutality and violence that follows, and you will be well-rewarded at the end. I promise.