Pioneer
This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80';s, the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world';s most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who';s pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
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6 February 1989, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
4 September 1978, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
1 August 1975, Bærum, Norway
11 February 1965, Nilsvallen, Härjedalen, Jämtlands län, Sweden
18 August 1965, Sandnes, Norway
19 December 1944, Norway
29 October 1975, Oslo, Norway
11 July 1952, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1975, Oslo, Norway
4 November 1956
31 August 1969, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
12 December 1972, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
1987, Obregon, Sonora, Mexico
1981, Norway
December 26, 2014
An intense, moody conspiracy thriller set just before Norway's oil boom in the early 1980s.
December 18, 2014
Skjoldbjaerg is unable to make us care as much as we should, and gives the film a kind of muddy look that translates directly into the viewer's mood.
December 04, 2014
Mr. Skjoldbjaerg, who also tapped Norwegian history with his bank robbery re-enactment "Nokas," doesn't convey a creeping atmosphere of moral rot so much as an irksome glumness.
December 12, 2014
It attempts to capture the feel of a 1970s-era paranoid conspiracy movie, and it succeeds in tone, even if the plot isn't quite so air-tight.
November 12, 2016
With his ratty moustache and balding head, Hennie makes an unlikely leading man (if this were Hollywood, the chiselled Bentley would surely fit the bill), but he suits the film's dour, downbeat mood, reminiscent of 1970s paranoid conspiracy thrillers.
December 26, 2014
Director Erik Skjoldbjærg (Insomnia) makes excellent use of the high-tech, low-glamour world he depicts, and manages an ending that is happy without being farcically so.
December 05, 2014
"Pioneer" has the necessary parts for a finger-pointing thriller that could boil the blood if handled well. Alas, this story of workers wounded by corrupt oil industrialists and politicians sinks from drawn-out scenes and too few surprises.
March 17, 2015
Certainly, the diving scenes look authentic and this is a world that needs exploring. But, the thriller angle is less than effective. Some niftier writing and staging could have made this a much scarier affair.
December 04, 2014
A brooding psychological drama where everything that happens is open to multiple interpretations and figuring out who if anyone is on your side gets harder and harder to do.
December 11, 2014
It's to Pioneer's credit that it is able to take something as clinical-sounding as "decompression sickness" and successfully turn it into a tension-ratcheting plot point.
December 05, 2014
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If "Pioneer," a mixed bag of a conspiracy thriller, works at all, it largely does so because of him.
