Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has a name that is difficult to remember, but he has a face that no one can forget after starring in the show nearly everyone loves as Jaime Lannister. In Headhunters (Hodejegerne) he is not the main character, but he may as well be.

The following might seem like spoilers but it is actually revealed very early on in the film. If you want to simply take my word for the excellence of this action-thriller film and go in blind, stop reading now.

The main character is Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) who is one of Norway's top headhunters and enjoys a very elaborate lifestyle. Despite his high level of income, he always seems to need more so he actually moonlights as an art thief. He is never caught because he replaces the originals with perfect replicas and his victims are never even aware they have been robbed. No one knows about his alter ego, including his stunning wife, who Roger is constantly concerned he is not good enough for and must continually shower her with gifts.

One day his wife introduces him to Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.) Clas is looking for a career shift and is interested in securing the services of Roger in order to do so. In the meantime, it is discovered that Clas has a painting estimated to be worth $100 million. Upon stealing the painting, Roger discovers that Clas has a special forces background and specializes in tracking people. He discovers after the fact that this was the wrong person to steal from.

And I am going to leave it at that. You'll have to find out the rest on your own - but trust me, it is worth it.

I have never seen anything Norwegian before this movie and I haven't seen anything ever since. This was definitely a great action movie and upon finishing it and realizing that they made the entire film for under $4 million, it makes me wonder what USA movies are spending all the cash on. I can find no flaw in this movie except for one part where a car flies off a cliff in a manor that defies the physics of the situation.

As always with non-English films, I highly suggest that you DO NOT view an overdubbed version of the film because all the emotion in the actors' voices are lost. Just accept the fact that you either need to be fluent in Norwegian or read the subtitles. It is worth it

8 / 10

Headhunters (2011) aka Hodejegerne

a Themovieplace short review and recommendation to the Steemit Community

Today I selected the movie Headhunters (2011) for the daily movie recommendation which is directed by Morten Tyldum being the first movie seen from him and the movie that made him famous reaching to make movies like The Imitation Game (2014), Passengers (2016) and I consider him a good director and I wait to see with what will amaze in the future. Being a foreign film I did not have very big expectations and I saw very few Norwegian movies so far. The reasons I wanted to see this movie are that I saw that he has a very good rating on imdb and plays the actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from Game of Thrones which I think is a very good actor which I've seen in his latest film Shot Caller (2017) in which he played excellently and Headhunters (2011) is the movie where I first noticed it that he is a good actor other than Game of Thrones. Let's get started and see why I liked this movie and I'll explain a few things about it.

Review(Possible spoilers)

The movie begins with Roger Brown which is a successful headhunter from Norway who work for Pathfinder company who manages to live an expensive life and manages to spoil Diana who is his wife, and to have money for everything Roger steals expensive paintings from his clients replacing original paintings with forgeries helped by Ove who works at a surveillance company and deactivates security at the victims homes.

Diana opens an art gallery where Clas Greve is presented by Diana to Roger, this being a former executive for GPS tech company HOTE an important company that was bought by Amtech an American company. Roger says that he works at Pathfinder and Clas knows this company and say about it that it is a small competitive company nd that they are their competitors.

Roger find out from Diana that Clas has a Rubens painting by receiving her grandmother's legacy who received it from a German officer during the war with whom she had a relationship. The painting is worth a lot and Roger meets with Ove to work out details on stealing the painting and meets Clas also discussing about a possible job at Pathfinder and Roger discover a few things about Clas that after the army was in a special unit that specialized in tracking people and the technology was offered by HOTE.

Roger manages to steal the painting and in the morning when he wanted to leave the home finds Ove in his car looking like he was poisoned and takes him to the lake where he will dumps Ove in the lake and his condition returns to normal. That's all what am I going to tell you about the story and the rest you can find out if you will see the movie and I hope you do that because it's a very exciting movie and it will become even better from this point and some scenes of action will appear which have been very successful. I really liked the movie, the story was great, the actors were very convincing and they managed to make me interested in seeing the movie all the way without moments of boredom. I recommend this movie to everyone and I assure you that you will not regret seeing it, also I'm curious about your opinions and don't forget to request the movie genre which you like to be recommended for tomorrow.

My rating 8/10

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Director

Morten Tyldum

Writer

Ulf Ryberg Lars Gudmestad

Cast

Aksel Hennie Synnøve Macody Lund Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Eivind Sander Julie R. Ølgaard Kyrre Haugen Sydness Valentina Alexeeva Reidar Sørensen Nils Jørgen Kaalstad Joachim Rafaelsen Mats Mogeland Gunnar Skramstad Johnsen Lars Skramstad Johnsen Signe Tynning Nils Gunnar Lie

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