Rolling Stone ‘Riders of Justice’: Mads Mikkelsen Would Like His Revenge Now, Thank You
The Danish star helps turn this dish-best-served-cold thriller into something thrilling, nutty and completely subversive
By Rolf konow/Magnolia Pictures
Who knows how it was forged, the ironclad bond between Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen and Mads Mikkelsen, star of countless sex dreams and recent Oscar-winner
Another Round. Perhaps they buried a body together. Whatever the reason, we continue to reap the benefits as that actor, who has been central to all of Jensen’s movies (including his 2000 debut
Flickering Lights), reunites with his pal/conspirator-in-corpse-disposal to deliver their fifth, and very possibly finest collaboration to date: the witty, weird and wantonly violent