This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80's, the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom.
Headhunters' Hennie excels as the man caught between paranoia and menace. A spirited knuckle-crack of a thriller.
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.
As slick as oil and as boring as greed.
A strange picture: unusual, but bafflingly plotted and paced and, frankly, tedious.
Hennie is a convincingly resolute hero and the director generates some tension from the situation but the film lacks edge and originality.
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.
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.
John Curran’s earnestly dull biopic hasn’t much to offer except parched voiceovers, painfully slow child/parent flashbacks, sunburn and humps.
Skjoldbjaerg never turns any of this into a plausible plot.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday April 25, 2014, until Thursday May 1, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/