2nd review of Headhunter's from Hollywood reporter tonight

The decision to produce has been pretty much a disaster for him.
I'm interested in reading more reviews, but it's not sounding good at all.



The Wizard Has Spoken

The critics do not like Gerry at all do they? Here's another negative review and another one calling it a vanity project for him. Watch them all follow suit as some critics do who can't be bothered to watch a movie that is panned initially by the heavies. Again I wonder how much Gerry or his crew had to do with adjustments to the script. He really needs to get an idea and possibly do more ensemble work IMO if he wants to build a reputation as a decent character actor at least.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/15/headhunters-calling-gerard-butler-redemption-story-sons-cancer-drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3EaVRv5xE&feature=youtu.be

Moira and crew are there in fine form, although I can't see Marg amongst them. A lot of tweets coming in saying how great Gerry is and how they cried their eyes out at the movie. This so called crass, manipulative tearjerker movie could be a big hit with moviegoers at least.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3EaVRv5xE&feature=youtu.be

Moira and crew are there in fine form, although I can't see Marg amongst them. A lot of tweets coming in saying how great Gerry is and how they cried their eyes out at the movie. This so called crass, manipulative tearjerker movie could be a big hit with moviegoers at least.


Thanks Robyn. The video looks like old times. I bet Gerry takes this movie everywhere (including Russia where he is loved). Maybe "This so called crass, manipulative tearjerker movie could be a big hit with moviegoers at least."

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by joe16vind » 17 hours ago (Wed Sep 14 2016 22:27:58)
IMDb member since February 2003
Post Edited: Wed Sep 14 2016 23:13:46
everyone


am sure this isn't what he expected and as of tonight its without a US distributer


while critics like football polls aren't the end all and be all of an actor's existence, am hoping once other reviews emerge, they will at least find something good to say about his acting...

annie

this one's even worse than Variety's


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/headhunters-calling-929140


"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" Joseph P Kennedy/Knute Rockne


EDIT-from the hollywood News- slightly favorable

http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2016/09/15/the-headhunters-calling-review/


Annie, I think the second review is worth printing:


http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2016/09/15/the-headhunters-calling-review/

The Headhunter’s Calling review: Gerard Butler leads this fairly generic but really rather enjoyable morality tale from debut director Mark Williams.

The Headhunter’s Calling review, TIFF ’16.



In The Headhunter’s Calling Gerard Butler is at the top of his game at a top Chicago-based headhunting firm Blackrock Recruiting. When his boss, an enigmatic Willlem Dafoe, announces that he’s planning to step down as CEO in just three months time, he pits Butler’s Dane Jensen against Alison Brie‘s Lynn Vogel, challenging each of them and their respective teams to bag the most sales by the time that he retires. Their reward? His job as head of the company.

Jensen salivates at the opportunity but hits a massive hurdle when he discovers that his ten-year-old son (Max Jenkins) has just been diagnosed with a rare form of Leukaemia. This morality tale pits Jensen’s professional ambition against his personal circumstances in a well-told, though sometimes cliched motion picture that somehow manages to win you over despite its many flaws.

Gerard Butler’s strong-willed, though well-meaning career-minded motivator is, at first, a hard pill to swallow, but he’s difficult not to like as a skilled, hard-working family man whose only major fault is having his priorities in the slightly wrong order. As ever, Butler’s charm seeps through his performance, and even through his sometimes wonky accent – something we’re willing to forgive this time – but it is young Max Jenkins who reaps all of the acting plaudits for his strong, moving performance as Ryan. Brieis slightly wasted and given next to no screen time as Jensen’s work rival, while Alfred Molina appears now and again as a key character to the story who also delivers a very touching solo scene late on. Dafoe offers a tantalising turn as Jensen’s boss, an apparent conscience-less rogue who cares for nothing or no-one who isn’t lining his pockets with hard cash.

The Headhunter’s Calling won’t set the world on fire, but with some brilliant performances and some wonderfully touching moments, we’ll forgive it for its short-comings plot-wise, and for the way in which it sews everything up almost too-perfectly by the time the credits roll.

The Headhunter’s Calling review by Paul Heath at the Toronto International Film Festival 2016.




P.S. ANOTHER VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAT69B5Z_7Y&feature=youtu.be#t=4.896923206

Another couple of reviews, one guy likes HHC and the other doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9lqWUQHxU

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by RRuin » 4 days ago (Thu Sep 15 2016 09:56:07)
IMDb member since December 2004
The decision to produce has been pretty much a disaster for him.
I'm interested in reading more reviews, but it's not sounding good at all.



The Wizard Has Spoken


Here is an interesting video review of “The Headhunter’s Calling” which is given 3 stars.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAy_k6w4iE&feature=youtu.be

The critics do not like Gerry at all do they?

It's not him. It's his work. This is sensitive material that requires subtlety, not the bluster that he prefers in his acting now. Too bad if this flops. It had potential.