"Headhunters" is an absurd amount of grisly fun, which is a good thing, since, looked at in any great detail, it probably doesn't hold up all that well.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2012

The film holds its twists too close to the chest, and there's little to chew on till the ambitiousness of its plotting is revealed late in the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 1, 2012

"Headhunters" isn't a pretty film, and it doesn't always entirely make sense, but it races along like a man chased by killers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2012

Like a Teutonic techno band, this thriller is both skillfully familiar and chillingly strange.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2012

"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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2012

"Headhunters" will indeed hand you your head.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 18, 2012

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2012

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 10, 2012

The scenes of graphic violence are drawn out to the point where they overwhelm the story.

Full Review | May 10, 2012

When we get the remake in a year or two, I hope it retains the edge and compact energy of director Morten Tyldum's movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2012

I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 10, 2012

Clearly, there are streaks of farce in all this, as well as serious cracks in logic, and those who like their black comedy done to a crisp will happily feast on what Tyldum dishes up.

Full Review | May 8, 2012

Headhunters is slick and spritely, a mixture of corporate skullduggery and low-life slapstick that plays like The Firm meets Blood Simple.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2012

"Headhunters" is a well-oiled, nasty machine.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2012

That's some good acting by Hennie, but it's also good writing by co-scribes Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg. They freshen up familiar caper and thriller tropes, adapting the bestselling prose Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2012

This Norwegian thriller has a winning cutthroat perversity.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 2, 2012

I can't remember the last time a movie surprised me as much as "Headhunters": not just its story twists and turns, which are considerable, but its continual stripping of character veneer and overall audaciousness left me breathless.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2012

The sex, nudity and violence are nonstop, but that's what makes "Headhunters" exciting entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2012

Brown's panic is capably rendered, but his ordeals are not worth enduring to the bitter end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 26, 2012

"Headhunters" is smart, funny, scary and surprising, so it's hardly any wonder that an American version is in the works. The big question is whether the remake can measure up.

Full Review | Apr 26, 2012