Curious notes: creepy landlords are obviously a crosscultural, international thing and “motherfucker” sounds the same in Norwegian, or else everyone is imitating American cop movies. So we flash back as Oscar begins to explain how he and a couple of his ex-con coworkers at the plastic Christmas-tree factory - oh yes, gruesome fun will be had with this location - won a lot of money betting on a soccer match, and then things kinda went downhill from there. Oscar was discovered, uninjured, under a dead body after a shootout at a sex shop/strip club, which makes me think of the best newspaper headline ever, the New York Post’s “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” Now, Oscar is being interrogated by cop Solor (Henrik Mestad), who’s kinda like a Norwegian Gene Hunt (see: the proper British Life on Mars), about just what the hell went down. A medieval warrior's gruesome collection of severed heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. As the film opens, we meet Oscar (Kyrre Hellum), a regular schmoe with a Chris Evans vibe, except he’s a bit dumb. that would tell me how stellar and seminal Herbie Hancocks Head Hunters album is. (This was written and directed by Magnus Martens, who was not involved with Headhunters.) Oh, to be sure, it has some outrageously, disgustingly funny moments - I laughed a lot, in isolated bursts - but it’s lacking that certain oomph that would make it unquestionably brilliant. If a movie scores 100 on Rotten Tomatoes, is it possible that the.
Could I dare to hope that another film would even come close to doing the same? Alas, Jackpot does not.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Rotten Tomatoes 85. Because Headhunters, also adapted from a Nesbo book, is wickedly funny and sharply pointed in ways that very few other crime films would ever go near. Stranger Than Fiction (2006) Rotten Tomatoes 72. The consensus reads, 'Grisly, twisty, and darkly comic, Headhunters is an exhilaratingly oddball take on familiar thriller elements. Based on 93 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 92 and 'Certified Fresh' rating with an average score of 7.6 out of 10. I heard “based on a novel by Jo Nesbo,” and I thought: Heh heh. Headhunters received very positive reviews. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) Rotten Tomatoes reports a Certified Fresh approval rating of 93 based on. I have not read the source material (I don’t think it has even been translated into English, and I don’t read Norwegian) Headhunters is a 2011 Norwegian action thriller film based on the 2008 novel. Top 100 Mystery & Suspense Movies (Rotten Tomatoes) - show list info. I’m “biast” (pro): loved Headhunters, also based on a Jo Nesbo novel