'Headhunter' A Review

'Headhunters' is a Norwegian thriller but at times it fells like an unintentional dark comedy. The movie follows Roger Brown corporate headhunter who moonlights as an art thief. He doesn't do this for any pleasure but for extra cash to keep his beautiful, blond, tall wife in the lap of luxury that she has become accustomed. He thinks that because he is 5'6'' she only loves him for his money. Any sympathy set up for Roger is destroyed when 5 minutes in we see him cheating on his wife. At this point you stop really caring about any of the characters involved.

The movie gets going when Roger steals the wrong painting from the wrong man. The movie takes a lot of twists and turns. There's a good amount of action. But it doesn't really make much sense, you don't care about the characters, and some sequences are so over the top they are laughable. Most notable is when a semi truck crashes into a cop car, crushes it like a can, and launches it airborne off a cliff without of course going after it.

There may be something lost in the cultural translation.  The plot goes to such extremes it becomes absurd. But I think the intention is to make a realistic edgy thriller. Which it most definitely is not.

I was entertained but I wasn't really sure what I was watching.

Don't See It.