Good and bad games The cheerful beginning of “Bounty Hunters” portends only the history of some super-adventure, where the big jackpot will be divided between all the characters of the film a dozen times. Roger Brown, the main character of this Scandinavian film, loves the game - both in the business, where he is quite successful in recruiting personnel, and in his dangerous hobby - stealing expensive paintings. At the same time, the bounty hunter cannot stand the hints of a beautiful wife to have a child, suspecting that the games at this stage may end. The image of Roger is intended to arouse the sympathy of the audience with his unusual infantileness. The big "golden" boy did not seem to have experienced a single major disappointment in his life.
The light comedic background of the next robbery is seasoned with a meeting of the viewer with a Russian prostitute Natasha and always attentive to someone else’s personal life security employees. That's just to rob Brown took another player. The Danish Klas Grieve turns out to be too big a fish. This is not only a confident handsome military, intellectual and connoisseur of nanotechnology, but also a player with other people's fates, who is not burdened in this game by any moral framework.
On the moral line, the director convexly outlines the difference between two “hunters”, each of whom has learned to skilfully cover their tracks. A walk to other people’s homes clearly contrasts with the cold calculation of the predator-killer, and this separation largely creates that powerful suspense that will make the viewer passionately worry about Roger’s fate.
The adventure is replaced by a thriller just when in Roger’s perception, the places of the pieces of the puzzle of a beautiful and calibrated game begin to be replaced by terrible fragments of someone else’s devilishly thought out plan. At the peak of suspense, the director manages to achieve the transformation of an objectively funny scene of a night trip on a tractor into an escape from death itself.
The creators of the film managed not only to create a beautiful European thriller, but also to raise the question of the place of the game in real life. Forcing Roger to walk along a tightrope of dangerous fun, the director skillfully rocks the fateful thread, helping his hero both feel the smell of death (even if it happens in a cesspool) and feel the true joys of family communication.
9 out of 10
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