Review by Matt Finley
Norwegian director Morton Tyldum’s
2011 thriller HEADHUNTERS (Hodejegerne) is a
gleefully dark little perpetual motion machine. It’s a bloodied-up
coyote v. roadrunner chase flick that effortlessly flash welds spy-fi
gadgetry to cold brute force, all the while folding in heists,
corporate intrigue, adultery, and a relentlessly bleak sense of
humor. Of course, to achieve such wicked momentum with such a
clutter-glut of genre jollies, some of the overarching logic has to
be shaved off… but it’s for reasons of aerodynamics, and the
story moves all the better for it.
For folks who don’t mind losing some
potential pathos to kinetic black comedy (or renting a winch to
suspend disbelief) this stuff is top flight.
