Headhunters Reviews

[A]n insane thriller in which form easily trumps -- while still complementing -- the material's inherent madness.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/4

A hugely enjoyable, unpredictable thriller that never forgets to be fun first and foremost.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/5

"Headhunters" is a rather strange film, but it's also a rather entertaining one.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

"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.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/5

Headhunters (Hodejegerne) is a roiling Norwegian mix of Hitchcock and Wile E. Coyote, with a generous dose of feces and blood. Headhunters is a mind game. And a blood sport.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/5

... sort of like being mugged by a banshee: It's all very loud and exciting and after it's over you're left with a vague feeling of unease to go along with the lighter wallet.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 87/100

The film holds its twists too close to the chest, and there's little to chew on till the ambitiousness of its plotting is revealed late in the film.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/5

By film's end, we're deep into Coen brothers territory, with an extra splash of Sam Raimi-level gore.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

a twisted and twisting take on the potentially lethal outcomes of male ego and insecurity, which find their greatest embodiment in capitalism at its most aggressive

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/4

Sleek and relentless, it's a provocative, darkly comedic thriller.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 7/10

Suspenseful, wickedly funny and clever, Headhunters offers more bang for your buck than most modern crime thrillers.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 9.5/10

"Headhunters" isn't a pretty film, and it doesn't always entirely make sense, but it races along like a man chased by killers.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

The good guy in the Norwegian "Headhunters" looks like a bad guy, and the bad guy looks like a good guy. And that's just one of the ways this dazzling movie messes with us.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/4

'Headhunters" is a frighteningly well-made thriller about an amoral art thief on the run.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/4

HEADHUNTERS is an exhilarating thriller with great visual flare, top notch acting, and a story that will have you so involved that you'll possibly have no fingernails by the end of it!

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/4

Like a Teutonic techno band, this thriller is both skillfully familiar and chillingly strange.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

"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.

Full Review | Comments (6) | Original Score: 2/4

"Headhunters" will indeed hand you your head.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: B+

...a sordid blast of delirious violence, brutal corporate satire, and male inadequacy.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: A-

This is one funny, gory, high-class crime thriller and my favorite Norwegian export since 'Troll Hunter.'

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: A minus