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Jo Nesbo's Jackpot (Arme Riddere) 2011

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Norwegian crime comedy from the mind of Jo Nesbø (author of Headhunters). Four ex-cons load their guns and sharpen their knives after collectively winning 1.7 million kroner, only to disagree on how to divide the cash. More

Oscar wakes up, terrified and bloodied with a shotgun in his hands, in what was once a respectable strip joint near Svinesund, Sweden. He is surrounded by eight bodies, and a police detective who has a gun aimed at his chest. By way of explaining himself, Oscar relates his story of four men who suddenly became 1,739,361 kroner richer after winning top prize in a soccer pool...

Says co-writer Jo Nesbø, "[Our film] has everything I haven't seen, but have desperately wanted to see on film, including one hell of a shootout in a porn shop south of the border". Hide

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      looks good

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      If its half as good as headhunters it will be "bloody" entertaining.

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Dominic Corry Flicks Writer

The recent influx of Scandanavian thrillers and murder mysteries gets an amusingly grimy entry in this highly entertaining riff on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. More

It's not based on one of his books, but red hot Norwegian novelist Jo Nesbø (Headhunters) provided the story for the film, which delights in a Tarantino-esque non-linear timeline and Guy Ritchie-esque filmmaking flourishes.

Gimmickry aside, the classic story of four "friends" who lose the plot after they win the football pools plays out with an accelerated sense of doom. Just who is duping who remains deliciously unknowable, and the film contains a couple of genuine surprises.

Outside of its Norwegian context, Jackpot might've seemed a little familiar, but the Scandanavian setting is still novel at this point in the genre's progression, and helps set this apart from similar films.

The black humour doesn't always work and the plot is occasionally confusing, but the po-faced lead actor (Kyrre Hellum) cuts a nice line in inscrutability, and makes for an appropriate audience proxy.

As with Headhunters, the notion of exactly who the good guy is here is ambiguous. This kind of moral greyness benefits the film greatly. I had a ball. Hide

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Black comedy in the finest tradition

Weds_Loafers Flicks Superstar (?)

This is a seriously dark comedy but, if you enjoy Quentin Tarantino (especially "Pulp Fiction"), you will like this movie. We track the story via the police reconstruction and interviews with Oscar, who was found alive under the body of a dead woman with a shotgun in his hand and a total of 8 dead bodies around him. Oscar and his criminal friends have won 1.7 million kroner on the football pools and the film revolves around the double-crossing that ensues. Quite a bit of blood and gore but the one woman in the audience was heard to be laughing as much as any of us. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Press Reviews

Empire (UK)

Casually gruesome and corpse-littered, it's a shaggy dog story with an almost buried emotional core about friendship, betrayal, temporary alliance and craftiness. Full review.

Guardian (UK)

It lays on lashings of crim-bickering and jauntily scored arterial spurting when all you can stomach is some crispbread. Full review.

Little White Lies

As straightforward - and disposable - as an airport paperback. Full review.

Telegraph (UK)

One of the patchier entries in Scandinavian noir's recent purple patch. Full review.

Total Film (UK)

Although it can't help but feel a touch retro in comparison to Sweden's more sophisticated recent output, it gets by on good-humoured bad taste alone. Full review.

Variety (USA)

A stylish and pacey action-comedy full of spot-on performances, inspired but gruesome gags, with crack comic timing and barbed dialogue. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

Blood-spattered crime comedy benefits from whip-smart pacing and quirky Scandinavian attitude... Full review.