Hodejegerne 2011

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: Brown's panic is capably rendered, but his ordeals are not worth enduring to the bitter end. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The compact Hennie is a wonderful actor, smoothly congenial when confident, uproarious when rattled. And he will be rattled-as well as stabbed, shorn, bitten, mangled, and worse. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: "Headhunters" is smart, funny, scary and surprising, so it's hardly any wonder that an American version is in the works. The big question is whether the remake can measure up. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: "Headhunters" isn't a pretty film, and it doesn't always entirely make sense, but it races along like a man chased by killers. Read more

William Goss, MSN Movies: What begins as a slick anti-hero outing soon becomes a brazenly entertaining cat-and-mouse thriller. Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: Headhunters' title rapidly turns literal, and what seemed like a lightweight heist thriller careens into a bloody-minded game of cat and mouse. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Headhunters" is 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. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's crisp entertainment even as plot absurdities gum up the works - you can almost hear the pages turn as you watch. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: The scenes of graphic violence are drawn out to the point where they overwhelm the story. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: When we get the remake in a year or two, I hope it retains the edge and compact energy of director Morten Tyldum's movie. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: "Headhunters" will indeed hand you your head. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This Norwegian thriller has a winning cutthroat perversity. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "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. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: By film's end, we're deep into Coen brothers territory, with an extra splash of Sam Raimi-level gore. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "Headhunters" is a bit like an Ikea desk assembled with your nondominant arm -- sleek and attractive, but likely to fall to pieces if you look at it too hard. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Clearly, there are streaks of farce in all this, as well as serious cracks in logic, and those who like their black comedy done to a crisp will happily feast on what Tyldum dishes up. Read more

Bob Mondello, NPR: The film has some fairly grisly violence, but also considerable humor and the sort of intricate, thought-through storytelling you'd expect from Hitchcock or the Coen brothers. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The sex, nudity and violence are nonstop, but that's what makes "Headhunters" exciting entertainment. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: At a time when many mystery thrillers fall apart in the final fifteen minutes, Headhunters maintains its integrity. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: "Headhunters" is a well-oiled, nasty machine. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 'Headhunters" is a frighteningly well-made thriller about an amoral art thief on the run. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Like a Teutonic techno band, this thriller is both skillfully familiar and chillingly strange. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Headhunters is slick and spritely, a mixture of corporate skullduggery and low-life slapstick that plays like The Firm meets Blood Simple. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: Always deliriously entertaining. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Though the film wraps up its spinning-plates narrative a little too neatly, this is still a Scandi-noir to die for. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: That's some good acting by Hennie, but it's also good writing by co-scribes Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg. They freshen up familiar caper and thriller tropes, adapting the bestselling prose Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: 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. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: A cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie. Read more