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Pioneer
Directed by
Erik Skjoldbjærg
R
2013
1h 46m
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6.0
55%
32%
5.9
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A thriller set at the beginning of the 1980's Norwegian Oil Boom and centered on a diver whose obsession with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea leads to tragedy.
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Cast of Pioneer
Aksel Hennie
Petter
Wes Bentley
Mike
Stephen Lang
John Ferris
Stephanie Sigman
Maria Salatzar
Jonathan LaPaglia
Ronald
Ane Dahl Torp
Pia
Jørgen Langhelle
Leif
André Eriksen
Knut Jensen
David A. Jørgensen
Jørgen Heimland
Eirik Stubø
Ivar Jeger
Endre Hellestveit
Trond
Laurents Rørvik
Martin
Janne Heltberg
Trude Svendsen
Jerker Fahlström
Jørgen's father
Tyrone C. Wiggins
Security guard
Thomas Hedengran
Jegers personal helper
Jan Gunnar Sjøthun
Police inspector
Arne Lindtner Næss
Minister
Robin Hayes
Philip
Chris Westerstrom
Diver
Pioneer Ratings & Reviews
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Director Erik Skjoldbjrg (Insomnia) makes excellent use of the high-tech, low-glamour world he depicts, and manages an ending that is happy without being farcically so.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Anders Wright
An intense, moody conspiracy thriller set just before Norway's oil boom in the early 1980s.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
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.
Common Sense Media
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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.
Movie Mezzanine
Mallory Andrews
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.
The Dissolve
Mike D'Angelo
Pioneer is a conspiracy thriller that mostly illustrates how comparatively tedious real-world corporate conspiracies are.
Under the Radar
Zach Hollwedel
Director Erik Skjoldbjrg's film offers an amazing opportunity to experience the dark depths of the ocean, while paying homage to 1980s filmmaking.
New York Daily News
Jordan Hoffman
"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.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Remember this name: Aksel Hennie. If "Pioneer," a mixed bag of a conspiracy thriller, works at all, it largely does so because of him.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
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.
Tolucan Times
Tony Medley
Director Erik Skjolbjrg knows how to create a claustrophobic setting and he gets first class performances from his cast. The physical discomfort shown by the crew is palpable. Despite some plotholes it holds interest until just before the ending.
NPR
Ella Taylor
The underwater sequences stun and terrify - nothing says claustrophobia quite like two weeks in a pressurized diving bell with someone you can't necessarily trust - and there's almost as much moisture and terror on land to drive Petter round the bend.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
In a cast that includes Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang and Jonathan LaPaglia, it's Mr. Hennie who makes "Pioneer" worth watching ...
Film Journal International
Chris Barsanti
Very low-intensity and derivative.
We Got This Covered
Matt Donato
Pioneer is a successful bit of anti-American propaganda, but as a conspiracy thriller, there's not much worth diving into.
Village Voice
Sam Weisberg
The tension never lets up.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Although involving on a scene-to-scene basis, Erik Skjoldbjaerg's '80s-set Norwegian thriller is curiously muted in impact.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Though technically quite an achievement and well-acted... [Pioneer] never [becomes] the character drama, white-knuckle thrill ride or -- even better! -- smart combination of both that the film clearly could be.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
Its greatest asset, and another trait it shares with Mann and Fincher's work, is a careful attention toward the particulars of its milieu in a way that doesn't call attention to those period touches.
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