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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A Masterpiece!

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

just saw this powerful & intense beligan crime drama- The BullHead...heart breaking story about a man (played excellently by Matthias Schoenaerts) who has to deal with the memories of a traumatic incident of his past for the rest of his life ..very intense & a moving performance...one can imagine his plight and feel for him. this film is brilliant and unforgettable.

Jacky Vanmarsenille is a muscle-bound cattle farmer. He injects illegal hormones into his cattle and into himself. He deals with the underworld of illegal meats and illegal hormones. A cop investigating illegal hormones is killed by the meat mafia. A stolen car with a bullet hole is fixed up by two mechanics. Jacky is tangentially connected to the incident. He is obsessed with Lucia Schepers who is the basis of a childhood trauma 20 years earlier.The disjointed nature of the story makes it difficult to maintain the tension. The flow is constantly disrupted. The childhood incident is shocking and it makes the characters more compelling. It would be helpful to be clearer and more straight forward in the storytelling. He's a compelling character but the story is too disjointed.

Outstanding on many levels, i was left stunned by its impressive impact, especially on what this film says about human relationships. The protagonist says to his childhood (true)friend near the end "all i've known is animals....i feel like a bull....i haven't lived a natural life.....to protect a wife, children..." His friend embraced him in empathy, but this was questioned "are you a faggot". Any sign of apparent "weakness" ie. tender emotions, are suspect in this world. He lost his testicles as a child and the treatment he received from his culture was utterly insufficient to compensate for this in many key area's. The response to the traumatic incident completely omitted any restorative justice, leaving him at the mercy of vengeful passions, though his father blindly raged for "justice". At least the child did get a sense off a kind of love there. The family were just left to manage as best they could, in the spirit of the worse kind of "independence", which is another aspect of the wider culture, it's just a question of degree. How can someone inject themselves into a permanent stupor for years and this not be inquired into. Well in a world where introspection and emotional intimacy are marginalized, to be remote from the alpha male world of grunt work, brothels, rat race commerce and criminal tendencies, a wholesome human expression is prevented. The talk of only knowing animals said a lot to me about how our society as a whole functions too much on an animal level and has yet to give birth to its humanness. The child longingly looking at his adult version at the end was just heartbreaking and for me at least, reminded me to cherish our young, to give the utmost support to all their development as a rounded human being.

A great film to watch if you're used to watch films accepting the director's choices and criticizing only their effectiveness.Yes, the almost two and a half hours are filled with a lot of story and back-story that are at times difficult to follow; yes, some of the symbolism seems to have been thrown in just for the sake of it, and you'll have to wait for the very last scene for it to pay off; yes, a beef hormones mafia may sound an unappealing (even ridiculous? Well, think again…) topic to someone; yes, inevitably there are some misses among the hits.But this is all about losing something (your innocence, your future, your self…) and trying (or not) to regain it: in fact, the advantage of having such a wide amount of narrative is that you can make sense of the movie from different (and equally valid) points of view.Give it a try. In its sophistication, Rundskop has what it takes to appeal any kind of viewer, as long as he is willing to get hooked.