Headhunters

Headhunters (2012)

  • 93% of critics liked it
    (80 reviews)

  • 86% of users liked it
    (7,721 ratings)

Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a… More

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R, 1 hr. 41 min.
Directed By
Morten Tyldum
Genres
Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Apr 27, 2012 Limited
Magnolia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    'Headhunters" is a frighteningly well-made thriller about an amoral art thief on the run.

  • Rafer Guzman, Newsday

    "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.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    "Headhunters" will indeed hand you your head.

  • Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

    A cat-and-mouse game with the giddy excitement of a heist movie.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    It's crisp entertainment even as plot absurdities gum up the works - you can almost hear the pages turn as you watch.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lorenzo v


    <i>"Believe me, Roger. You've never seen anything like this in a film."</i> An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary. <center><font size=+2 face="Century… More

  • c0up  


    'Headhunters'. Changes tone majestically between precision caper, bumbling, dark humour, and love story.

  • Walter M


    In "Headhunters," Roger Brown(Aksel Hennie) is a corporate recruiter who stands just 1.68 meters tall.(For my fellow Americans, this is about 5'6.") Due to feelings about his height, he overcompensates by marring a blonde goddess named Diana(Synnove Macody Lund)… More

  • Richard B


    Little Big Man Jo Nesbo, the latest Scandinavian thriller writer, lifted the spirit of Fargo and Harlan Coben in his thriller Headhunters, now adapted into this superior Norwegian (!) film version. Roger Brown (where did he get such an English name?) is the small, successful,… More

  • Eric H


    Tyldum puts Hollywood blockbusters to shame with this blisteringly paced Norwegian Hitchcock homage, Nordic by Northwest if you will. Over the years we've had plenty of movie villains with a Napoleon complex but this could be the first instance of a hero who suffers from small… More

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