For a while, it seems Roger has no chance, but after killing his partner in crime, being shot at and wounded, diving into human excrement, being bitten by a pit bull, arrested for a murder he did not commit, crushed out of recognition in a car crash and almost knifed to death by a former lover, he still manages to shoot his rival to death in front of a whole battery of TV cameras. When he tops the rest of his evil doing by sleeping with Roger’s wife, war between the two is openly declared. In addition, Clas turns out to be not only a tall, fit and handsome villain that even Bond would think twice before tackling, he also owns an array of gadgets and futuristic tracking devices even the British spy would be proud of. The troubles start when his wife introduces him to a Dane, Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who has star potential as an executive but who is also in possession of an original Rubens. Therefore, he smells out owners of valuable art pieces, sets out to relieve them of their possessions, has an arrangement with a security officer to cut off the alarms of the home he intends to burgle and then moves the merchandise across the border to be sold for cash. His profession is to recruit the most qualified minds available for the highest paying bidders in the industry, but evidently, given the kind of expenses he insists on indulging in, he needs a lot more money than whatever his job pays. He keeps her in a villa he can’t afford and drives her around in a car way beyond his means. To compensate, he has a spectacularly blonde wife, Diana (Sinnove Macody Lund), who towers over him. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is 5’7” and deeply self-conscious about it.
However, in order to supplement his dwindling income he also steals valuable art works which he sells across the border.
Realism is not high on the agenda here, with Tyldum diverting the plot in a number of directions and providing a shock a minuteīased on a novel by Jo Nesbo, the thriller follows an undersized headhunter with an oversized ego who earns a living chasing top executive material for high powered jobs. His opus is bound to be a crowd-pleaser, even if it quickly fades in the memory. Evidently inspired by the record breaking Millenium series, Tyldum’s third feature, which screened in Locarno’s Piazza Grande, moves at top speed, with bright, brilliant camera work and a twist-a-minute plot. Here comes the next European candidate for a future Hollywood blockbuster.
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