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

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

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

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

| Jun 23, 2014

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

One of the patchier entries in Scandinavian noir's recent purple patch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2012

As straightforward - and disposable - as an airport paperback.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2012

Martens punctuates proceedings with moments of black humour and sudden, shocking violence, while the sheer frequency of twists, double-crosses and switchbacks keep the plot rattling along.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2012

Casually gruesome and corpse-littered, it's a shaggy dog story with an almost buried emotional core about friendship, betrayal, temporary alliance and craftiness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2012

Guy Ritchie may have creatively moved on from his Tarantino-inspired debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but international crime cinema has not, as again evidenced by Jackpot.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 27, 2012

In his sophomore feature, helmer Martens delivers on the promise he displayed in his debut, United, creating a stylish and pacey action-comedy full of spot-on performances, inspired but gruesome gags, with crack comic timing and barbed dialogue.

| Apr 20, 2012