This might be the second film to bear the name of Norwegian crime writer Nesbo after the grimly amusing white collar combat of Headhunters released earlier this year, but it hasn't sprung from his books.
It's a one-off Nesbo story scripted by director Martens.
And if Headhunters suggested a Coen brothers' foray into Scandi-noir, the blackly funny, gore-heavy Jackpot is even more so.
That's right down to its own twisted tribute to the Coens' Fargo, which, of course, was a film populated by Gundersons and Lundegaards.
And, like Fargo, this is a film about the problems of mixing the salt of the earth with the scum - when Oscar (Hellum) is found, clutching a shotgun, as the only survivor of a mass shoot-out in a backwoods strip joint on the Norwegian-Swedish border, the assumption might be that he's the last man standing in some gangland massacre.
