Take some scenes on their own, however, and the craft cannot be argued. There are plenty of twists and turns and double crosses, as are standard in any self-respecting Thriller and some of them make sense – but many do not. So begins a game of cat-and-mouse with Clas hunting down Roger. With that kind of a coincidence, what could possibly go wrong?
It turns out Clas just happens to have inherited an extremely rare painting that was thought to have disappeared during World War II AND needs a job running a company! Not sense any kind of danger, Roger leaps at the chance to place Clas in meetings while sneaking into his house to steal the painting. Using his legitimate job as a way to probe into the lives of rich art collectors, he sets up meetings for them and then sneaks into their houses when he knows they won’t be home.Īs with all heist films everything in the perfect plan isn’t as it seems, and Roger gets a bit over his head when he meets special forces commando-turned-corporate CEO Clas Greve, played by “Game of Thrones” star Nikolay Coster-Waldau. How he got into this very specific part-time job isn’t very clear but it has paid off well for Roger. His job as the best headhunter in the business, however, just isn’t enough to support his lifestyle, so he moonlights as a thief of rare and valuable art (of course!). He lives in luxury with a tall blonde wife on his arm and a slick sports car in his driveway. Don’t get me wrong, I was enjoying it while I was watching, but with every twist and revelation I remembered the previous one and thought: “wait… what?” On my ten-minute walk home after watching it, the movie started to fall apart.Īksel Hennie plays Roger Brown, a diminutive headhunter who recruits for large corporations. “Headhunters” is an entertaining enough foreign important that I wish had excited me more than it actually did. Stars: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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