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Pioneer (15)

Thriller

This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80's, the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom.

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The critical consensus

Headhunters' Hennie excels as the man caught between paranoia and menace. A spirited knuckle-crack of a thriller.

***(*)(*)Angie Errigo, Empire Online, 06/04/2014

Pioneer features underwater sequences so breathless they’ll thrill even James Cameron (director Erik Skjoldbjærg made the original Insomnia) but Petter’s truth-chasing is at times too frantic and melodramatic.

***(*)(*)Jamie Graham, Total Film, 07/04/2014

As slick as oil and as boring as greed.

**(*)(*)(*)Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies, 11/04/2014

A strange picture: unusual, but bafflingly plotted and paced and, frankly, tedious.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 10/04/2014

Hennie is a convincingly resolute hero and the director generates some tension from the situation but the film lacks edge and originality.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 11/04/2014

If only it didn't overload the cargo with so many plot twists, chases and corpses. Mayday, mayday, this film's about to break up.

***(*)(*)Xan Brooks, The Observer, 12/04/2014

This murky Scandinavian conspiracy thriller about deep-sea divers during the Norwegian oil boom of the 1980s suffers from a plot so convoluted that it makes The Big Sleep look straightforward.

**(*)(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 11/04/2014

John Curran’s earnestly dull biopic hasn’t much to offer except parched voiceovers, painfully slow child/parent flashbacks, sunburn and humps.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 20/04/2014

Skjoldbjaerg never turns any of this into a plausible plot.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 26/04/2014

Where and when?

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday April 25, 2014, until Thursday May 1, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/

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