Jackpot
Jackpot
Jackpot is an exciting, playful and bloody comedy from the producer of Cold Prey. It is based on a story by Norway's leading crime writer, Jo Nesbø. We meet a group of scruffy young men, all of them with a criminal background. Oscar, Thor, Billy and Tresko. They work at a factory in the middle of nowhere that makes plastic Christmas trees. And they bet on soccer.
2.8 out of 5 based on 9 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
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| Genre |
Action, Comedy |
| Director |
Magnus Martens |
| Cast |
Henrik Mestad, Mads Ousdal, Arthur Berning, Andreas Cappelen, Kyrre Hellum |
| Studio |
Metrodome Group |
| Release Date |
August 2012 |
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Jackpot is an exciting, playful and bloody comedy from the producer of Cold Prey. It is based on a story by Norway's leading crime writer, Jo Nesbø. We meet a group of scruffy young men, all of them with a criminal background. Oscar, Thor, Billy and Tresko. They work at a factory in the middle of nowhere that makes plastic Christmas trees. And they bet on soccer.
Reviews
Empire Magazine
Kim Newman
“A black farce rather than a thriller, this is one of those Usual Suspects-y things which requires close attention, offering a multiple choice of What Has Actually Happened that might require a second viewing to sort out.”
07/08/2012
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The Observer
Philip French
“Funny, outrageous and often surprising, it manages to combine black comedy with convincing police procedural detail. ”
12/08/2012
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The Guardian
Catherine Shoard
“Scando-gore addicts unsated by the current glut on TV, or that dished up by the likes of Headhunters, will feast on this latest Jo Nesbø adaptation to splatter down the chute.”
09/08/2012
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Time Out
Tom Huddleston
“There’s nothing in ‘Jackpot’ which doesn’t feel secondhand: the interview-room flashback structure echoes ‘The Usual Suspects’; the characters could have wandered out of almost any mid-’90s smalltown US indie.”
08/08/2012
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Total Film
Matt Glasby
“Imagine Headhunters with a lot less going on upstairs and you have the measure of Magnus Martens’ knockabout Nordic noir.”
30/07/2012
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“With a plot that draws on Fargo, The Usual Suspects and a few Guy Ritchie-isms, Magnus Martens’s film plonks you back in the 1990s. ”
12/08/2012
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The Scotsman
Alistair Harkness
“it adopts a more insouciant attitude to crime and violence than heavyweight TV shows such as The Killing and The Bridge. That makes it a fun proposition for a while, but its Guy Ritchie-esque stylistic flourishes soon wear a little thin and only the subtitles and the setting prevent it from immediately seeming like the generic crime caper it really is. Which isn’t to to say it doesn’t have its moments.”
09/08/2012
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The Daily Telegraph
Robbie Collin
“One of the patchier entries in Scandinavian noir’s recent purple patch.”
09/08/2012
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The Times
Wendy Ide
“Dated, clumsily executed and nowhere near as funny as it thinks it is.”
10/08/2012
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