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Headhunters Reviews
Guardian [UK]
The parts barely relate, never mind work together.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
Given how insubstantial Headhunters is, stopping us from thinking critically may have been the point.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Top CriticThe scenes of graphic violence are drawn out to the point where they overwhelm the story.
Brown's panic is capably rendered, but his ordeals are not worth enduring to the bitter end.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
"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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Austin Chronicle
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Examiner.com
"Headhunters" is a rather strange film, but it's also a rather entertaining one.
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| Original Score: 3/4
2UE That Movie Show
Headhunters is ridiculous, macabre, fun - see the original before it's irrevocably ruined by it's Hollywood remake.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Fan The Fire
Headhunters works best when punishing its lead excessively, continuously, and for no apparent reason.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Real.com
Tyldum's highly accomplished and darkly comical thriller should be seen and savoured for its poise, pace and Hennie, as well as for its filmmaking techniques ...
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| Original Score: 5/5
Quickflix
Headhunters seems to take place in the same universe presided over by the prankster Gods in the Coen brothers' flicks; the very ones who punish anyone who dares to make a decision based on greed. More movies should be set there.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Scotsman
See this version now before Hollywood spoils the fun.
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| Original Score: 4/5
A cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Flicks.co.nz
Many of the elements are familiar, but the setting, the actors and the director's confident style set them apart.
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| Original Score: 4/5
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.
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| Original Score: B+
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
...a sordid blast of delirious violence, brutal corporate satire, and male inadequacy.
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| Original Score: A-
The Sun Herald
A super-slick thriller that doesn't let up, with exceptional performances all round. Make sure you catch it before the inevitable US remake rears its head.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
... 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.
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| Original Score: 87/100
Birmingham Post
It's a slickly-made, compelling story about a headhunter with a taste for swapping art masterpieces with forgeries in order to fund a lavish lifestyle for a wife who wants babies when he doesn't.
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| Original Score: 4/5
