Headhunters (*** out of ****)

The best kind of thrillers draw you into the game their playing. This game can be both predictable and fresh, it just was to engage the audience's attention. Headhunters plays with the audience and even in it's darkest moments is a whole lot of fun.

Headhunters is gifted with the kind of protagonist a thriller needs. One that is cool, collected, smart, deceitful and can have that entire world thrown upside down. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a full time art thief and works for a security company (as a cover) on the side. He steals valuable paintings from people who interview for the company by asking detailed questions on their home life. One potential employee is a former head of a rival company named Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Roger learns Cles has a incredibly valuable paining and plans on stealing it but then everything that could go wrong does.

The film contains three scenes that are so wickedly entertaining that it was hard not to grin ear from ear. Those scenes are met with plenty of other fine scenes. In fact there aren't any significant flaws here. Only the story chooses cheap fashions to wrap up some events, nothing to bad though. The good severally outweighs the bad here. There are scenes of thrilling action, luring mystery and wicked black comedy, all of which is entertaining. Headhunters is a mind racing gem.

***1/2 out of ****