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"Headhunters" stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) 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. In the opening moments of "Headhunters", Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) explains to us that his gorgeous, high-tech home, lavish lifestyle, and beautiful wife (Julie R. Olgaard) can all be attributed to his height (he's 5'9). From there director Morten Tyldum weaves an intricate web in this stylish and supremely entertaining crime thriller, deftly balancing character and plot in one of the most satisfying man-on-the-run thrillers I've seen in a very long time.
An ambitious and secretive overachiever, Roger works by day as a corporate headhunter, the man behind the scenes when big tech companies restructure and are in need of new CEO's and the like. What almost nobody knows is that he uses the data he culls from each of his rich clients to later steal the precious works of art about which each of them boasts, and is even able to coax from them all the details he needs to plan the smoothest-running thefts and scams. His only real Achilles' heel is Lotte, his statuesque and sophisticated wife who attracts wolf stares from pretty much every male alive, and Roger has gone into major debt lavishing her with gifts and providing for her every whim. Paranoid she'll one day leave him if he doesn't pull off the ultimate score, he hatches a plot to steal a rare painting from Clas Greve (Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), an ex-mercenary who works with next-gen surveillance and tracking software.
It will surprise exactly no one that Roger's plan quickly derails, but the twists that ensue offer plenty of proof that there are still new things to do with the old tried and true potboiler. What's particularly satisfying is that the multi-layered plotting from screenwriters Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg fools you into thinking you've figured out where things are headed, and yet moments later a new development makes it clear that the story is still six steps ahead of you. And I've only seen the film once, but when I recall key elements and scenes I'm still convinced that, for all the cat-and-mouse extravagances throughout, this is thoroughly well-constructed stuff, the kind of thriller that you almost need to discuss immediately with a group so each of you can chime in and re-connect the dots, and it holds up remarkably well to scrutiny.
But it's Hennie's Roger who puts the proceedings over the edge and makes this a not just good but great thriller. Roger is one of the best underdog antiheroes to come along in a while, and you'd have to be seriously cynical to not root for this guy by film's end. This insecure art thief gets in over his head almost from the get-go, and struggles to evade each steadily-escalating dilemma with equal parts cleverness and clumsiness. Genuinely exhilarating, "Headhunters" is easily one of my standout picks for this year's Fantastic Fest.The trailer for Headhunters promises a polished, intelligent, and very adult thriller. And for the first half hour, it is. But the trailer fails to convey the film's tendency to drift in and out of the realm of pure hardcore genre. Headhunters often gets violent and is sometimes downright nasty. I'm not talking Drive level violent with fleeting moments of viscera and split second quick cuts of gore. I'm talking Hobo with a Shotgun level violent with lingering shots of caved in skulls and.... and... I promised not to spoil anything. While Headhunters is a dramatic thriller, there is also a wild sense of humor that goes well past dark and straight to the macabre. Mr. Brown goes through a similar amount of abuse reminiscent to Bruce Campbell in the Evil Dead films.
Headhunters is like an out of control train barreling down a narrow track with a cargo full of explosive material. It teeters back and forth with a constant threat of derailment. The film's tonal shifts are shocking and jarring yet handled with precision. The film often jeers towards becoming silly overkill; it inches over to pure camp yet never actually tips far enough to fall off track and crash. There are moments that brought out verbal reactions of, "get the fuck outta here. Really? Are you fucking kidding me?" But as potentially stupid as things get, it's a hell of a lot of fun. Headhunters succeeds where many many films of its kind almost always fail. It combines high production value, taut suspense, and mature writing with pulpy five and dime fun, and the cheap thrills of a Grand Guignol freak show. Even more surprising is that the film somehow manages to pull off a few legitimately poignant moments of character based drama... Huh... It does everything right that Black Swan did wrong.
Watch free movies onlineIt should also be noted that this is a film that's best viewed with an audience. Although no fault of the festival itself, it was a disappointment that last night's screening was not the packed house the film deserved. What can I say? Philly film fans are generally 1 full year behind in supporting good international films. But the people who were in attendance had a ball. There were audible gasps of shock, shouting, cries of "what the fuck?" and "oh my god!" with plenty of cheers in between.Ultimately, Headhunters is a shallow film and I'm not sure if there's enough beyond the plot twists to revisit, but it should come as no surprise that the film was adapted from a novel by the great Jo Nesbo. Headhunters indeed plays out like a great beach paperback potboiler with all of the many subplots and hidden character motivations. Although I have not read the source material, I am familiar with a few of the Harry Hole books, and it's a shame that Nesbo is too often compared with Stieg Larsson. He's a better writer. Also, Larrson has only actually written 3 fucking fiction novels ( and 1 was probably ghost written). Can critics please stop comparing every fucking crime author from Scandinavia to Stieg?
Obviously, for Twitch readers, Headhunters may just be the must see film of the year and it's now tied with Troll Hunter for my favorite foreign genre picture seen in a festival in 2011. This is a film that should blow up from the same word of mouth that lead to Let the Right One In and Old Boy's success. Yet, I'm not sure if this has the same mass appeal due to some of its extremities. Even my mother loved Let the Right In and more recently Point Blanke, but something tells me she'd roll her eyes and shake her head in disgust if I gave her a copy of this.
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