European crime thrillers are often similarly convoluted and overly complicated in structure. Bullhead has difficulty laying out its main mafia plot. Much better is a series of flashbacks about a young boy whose testicles are smashed by a bully. As a thirty-something year old man, he's compensated by taking an abundance of steroids and becoming a muscleman. Matthias Schoenaerts' tough guy dopiness and impressive physicality give that commentary on masculinity a good deal of credibility. He makes this much more worthwhile than it would otherwise be.
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