How to Tell If an App or a Website Is Good for Learning.Teachers: Find the best edtech tools for your classroom with in-depth expert reviews.Check out new Common Sense Selections for games.10 tips for getting kids hooked on books.Common Sense Selections for family entertainment.No fancy effects, but flesh and blood and real locations. What is important is that it has the unfaked weight of reality. His method for hiding in an outhouse from Roger and his dog is admirably practical. The short man proves courageous and resilient, and can think quickly. "Headhunters" then opens up into a long, punishing chase, as Clas tracks Roger across Norway in a series of increasingly perilous situations. We know, and Roger knows, he means business. We've seen Clas in a dressing room, his muscular back criss-crossed with whip marks. And Diane is not simply a trophy blond, but warm and nice, and if she had an affair, well, so did Roger - with Lotte (Julie Ølgaard), who he treats with disturbing callousness. What "Headhunters" has done, skillfully, is enlist our sympathy with Roger Brown and our interest in Clas Greve. Not a gimmick character, but an implacable enemy.Įnough about the plot. He's the sort of villain that a thriller needs: intelligent and remorseless. Trained as a military commando, survivor of Bolivian torture, fiercely proud, he wants revenge. Clas Greve is not a man you want to cross. But when he learns the devastating news that Diana and Clas have been having an affair, he sabotages the job offer. Brown can place him with the firm and steal his painting. Greve, as it turns out, inherited a Rubens from his grandmother. He won't stop until the man agrees to lunch. Tall, chiseled, confident, he has just resigned as CEO of a multinational, and Brown would like to recruit him for a rival firm. At a gallery opening, Diane (Synnøve Macody Lund) introduces him to a new client: Clas Greve ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). He doesn't believe she could love him for himself.īrown ( Aksel Hennie) is a smooth-talking type with the cool nerve necessary to enter homes and replace valuable paintings with deceptive reproductions. On her he lavishes expensive gifts and a luxurious lifestyle and even sets her up with her own art gallery. He needs the money and tells us why: He's keenly aware that he stands 5-foot-6 and is married to Diana, a statuesque blond. While interviewing job candidates, he learns information that's invaluable in his second job, as an art thief. At its center is an everyman, Roger Brown, who is an executive headhunter.
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