As Nordic imports go, it's hardly as offensive as lutefisk.

| Feb 13, 2020

Marten's film lacks any discernible charisma or charm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2019

Unabashedly derivative but nonetheless entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2014

"Jackpot" plays like an over-the-top story told by a drunken film fan at a bar: "Dude, I just saw this movie and it was CRAZY. You have to see it." Trust me, you don't.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 27, 2014

Here is a mean-spirited movie about bad-hearted people in which the central question seems to be which of these characters is the nastiest of the lot.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 26, 2014

Capable, candy-colored, often giddily gruesome Euro-action from Norway, replete with lottery winnings, double-crosses, discreet vivisection and a shootout in a strip club called "Pink Heaven" with a single survivor whom the police want explanations from.

| Jun 26, 2014

As an absurdist suspense film, "Jackpot" mostly hits its marks. As a comedy, it's less successful, stronger on sight gags than on the detective's sarcasm.

| Jun 26, 2014

It's probably a good thing that the characters are so unlikeably dumb in Magnus Martens' violent black comedy Jackpot. You don't want to become attached to any of these guys. They tend to disappear quicker than cast members on Game of Thrones.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2014

Certainly, a lot of blood is spilled in the name of laughs. There's only one problem with its broad attempts at grotesque comedy: Jackpot simply isn't funny.

| Jun 24, 2014

Jackpot feels more like Guy Ritchie than the Coen brothers. It revels in moronic violence, unleavened by playfulness or wit.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 24, 2014

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

| Jun 23, 2014

Chronically let down by a lack of character development, with no spark at the off to get the whole thing rolling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2012

The recent influx of Scandanavian thrillers and murder mysteries gets an amusingly grimy entry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2012

Jackpot lacks the breakneck narrative drive of the previous Nesbo screen adaptation, the terrific Headhunters, but keeps things gripping with its own share of sick twists and grisly gags.

| Aug 17, 2012

A true "black comedy" if ever there was one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 15, 2012

Short but not at all sweet, this is a dark but nevertheless entertaining crime drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2012

[A] highly entertaining Scandinavian thriller...

| Aug 12, 2012

Some may find it sickly amusing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2012

[H]as some outrageously, disgustingly funny moments -- I laughed a lot, in isolated bursts -- but it's lacking that certain oomph that makes it unquestionably brilliant.

| Aug 10, 2012

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2012