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BrotherReed:
Saw [b][url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614989/]Headhunters[/url][/b] last night at my local arthouse theater. I love that place. I always get to see movies that don't show in your standard multiplexes. In this case, a Norwegian thriller about an art thief who gets way in over his head. Literally. After he sets his mark on a wealthy executive whose specialty is tracking people with GPS technology, he finds he's been set up and everything goes to crap. Again, literally. The first 40 minutes are really top notch, and rise to Hitchcock-like levels of suspense, as we immediately root for the protagonist despite his being no more morally sound than anyone else. The movie has a pitch black sense of humor, and the events in the second half are really so over-the-top that they'd play perfectly well as a comedy, although you're more likely to laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all sort of like in Fargo (though comparisons to that great film are far too kind). In some ways the plot is kind of undercooked and it all comes out feeling sort of insubstantial, but it's a fun movie by turns surprisingly violent and gross. And all this in the context of a man compensating for his own insecurities. 7/10. This is technically a 2011 film but I saw it last night and it didn't see a USA theatrical release until this year, so I'm counting it. 1. The Cabin in the Woods 2. Prometheus 3. 21 Jump Street 4. The Avengers [b]5. Headhunters[/b] 6. The Hunger Games 7. Chernobyl Diaries 8. Safe House 9. Gone 10. Snow White and the Huntsman

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