BFI

Brad Pitt was bringing the London Film Festival to a storming conclusion Sunday.

A disparate set of mismatched components stitched together to form a coherent whole. That’s either a description of the machine at the heart of this worthy biopic or a loose critique of Headhunters director Morten Tyldum’s examination of one of history’s most overlooked heroes. It is in fact both.

Brad Pitt was bringing the London Film Festival to a storming conclusion Sunday.

A disparate set of mismatched components stitched together to form a coherent whole. That’s either a description of the machine at the heart of this worthy biopic or a loose critique of Headhunters director Morten Tyldum’s examination of one of history’s most overlooked heroes. It is in fact both.