For art's sake

Hodejegerne (Headhunters)

Crit

Norwegian director Morten Tyldum seems to have asked himself WWJ&ED? And then opted not to be so subtle, to out-Coen the Coens, with a level of ingenious overplotting to which the Minneapolis boys would not have risen/sunk, not to mention a Farrelly-esque level of scatology.

Not a bad noir, just an overcooked one, with far more ambition than finesse. You sorta feel sorry for Aksel Hennie, who looks like the lovechild of Coen regular Steve Buscemi and how-have-the-Coens-missed-him Christopher Walken, who spends much of the film covered in one effluvium or another.