A corporate headhunter steals art from his clients to maintain his expensive lifestyle... but did he just steal a painting from the wrong man?
I don't know why, but having seen quite a bit of Norwegian and Scandanavian TV and film (for an American) I can honestly say I always come away from it both entertained,
and disturbed. Maybe it's the long winter darkness, but they make some screwed up cinema. This movie is no exception. I did not say it wasn't good. It is however in Norwegian with subtitles, so you're going to have to work to follow it. I say it's worth the effort.
Roger Brown is a 5'6" man trying to compensate for his height with an expensive house and an expensive wife. To make the ends meet, he casually pumps his executive clients for the right information to see whether they have anything worth stealing... then steals it when he knows they're in a meeting. He manages to get the same information from a man he meets at his wife's art gallery opening who seems to have the score of a lifetime on his wall... art stolen by the Nazis and worth hundreds of millions.
Without giving too much away, what follows is a twisty tale of ingenuity, survival, a bit of luck, and gunplay. If you enjoyed the Bourne trilogy or the new Bond films, you will like this movie.
As a knitter's movie, this is terrible unless you're fluent in the language. There weren't really a lot of counts in this movie either... except for the holy crap moments. There were four. These people do not play around when they are fighting.
Four and a half out of five stars... if this had been in English, I probably would have given it a five. It's not that I'm a snob, but more that something must be lost in the translation, and I don't always trust subtitles (or the typists who transcribe them) to give us the nuances.
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