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Movie Info

A detective spends three months in a coma and sees everything upside down after he is shot in the head. He becomes an assassin and tries to eliminate anyone who lives above the law.

Genre:

crime, mystery and thriller, drama
Original Language:

Thai
Director:

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Producer:

Raymond Phathanavirangoon, Pawas Sawatchaiyamet
Writer:

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 28, 2012 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 30, 2016
Runtime:

1h 45m

Cast & Crew

Sirin Horwang
Rin

Apisit Opasaimlikit
Torpong

Kiat Punpiputt
Dr. Suang

Nopachai Chaiyanam
Tul

Chanokporn Sayoungkul
Joy , Tiwa

Theeradanai Suwannahom
Tin

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Critics Consensus: Looper Is Certified Fresh

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Critic Reviews for Headshot

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (4)

While there are some great twists and revelations here, I just kept wishing it would stop with all the cinematic tricks and get to more conventional, straight- forward storytelling.

September 27, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Doug Knoop
Seattle Times
A dreamy, elliptical neo-noir about a cop turned killer turned something else altogether.

September 27, 2012 | Rating: 3/5

Manohla Dargis
New York Times
Headshot is, unfortunately, far better with ideas than with narrative.

September 27, 2012 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Alison Willmore
AV Club
Neither fresh nor especially satisfying, but Ratanaruang distinguishes the hunt with his fluid kineticism, especially in the just-a-touch-too-infrequent shoot-outs and beatdowns.

September 25, 2012

Alan Scherstuhl
Village Voice
Its vision of contemporary Thailand is recognizable as another society undeserving of redemption, but worthy of poetry.

September 25, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Eric Hynes
Time Out
This "Buddhist film noir," as writer-director Pen-ek Ratanaruang calls it, is surprisingly slow-moving and soulful for a film full of double-crosses and cold-blooded killing.

September 23, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Elise Nakhnikian
Slant Magazine
Jarring bursts of violence set the stage to play with themes of identity, selfhood, spirituality, and the very nature of good and evil.

July 18, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Brent McKnight
The Last Thing I See
As both a meditation on the nature of justice and a heart pounding action film, Headshot delivers on all fronts.

August 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
If the titular headshot leaves Tul with inverted vision, the film too turns the characteristics of genre upside-down, defamiliarising everything - an effect that is helped considerably by Ratanaruang's way with moody stylisation.

March 5, 2013 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Projected Figures
The visual contrast between the ultraviolent showdowns and the quieter, more character-driven moments is striking.

September 28, 2012 | Full Review…

Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue
This Thai crime thriller has some novel ideas and is strikingly shot, but a jumbled, overreaching narrative robs it of cohesion.

September 27, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Adam Ross
The Aristocrat
A crisp crime thriller with a perfectly calibrated atmosphere

June 30, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tom Clift
Moviedex