Posted By Bob Grimm on Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:34 AM
MOVIE REVIEW: RIDERS OF JUSTICE Now Screening at The Loft Cinema Mads Mikkelsen is one of the many things that makes Anders Thomas Jensen’s
Riders of Justice one of the year’s best films so far. He’s brilliant in a movie that dares to dig below the surface of a revenge movie plot and provide characters of substantial depth. The movie is a lot of things: a revenge thriller, a touching family drama/tragedy, and, most surprisingly, a buddy comedy. Now, when I say buddy comedy, we are talking a pitch-dark buddy comedy where some of the buddies wind up unconscious on the side of the road after another buddy viciously punches them in the face. Okay, I might have to remove the buddy comedy label, but the film is often darkly funny.
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
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Finding You, a coming of age romantic drama based on Jenny B. Jones’ novel
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Brutal, sad, funny, and disarmingly sweet-natured, Riders of Justice is not so much a revenge movie as a movie about revenge. That might seem like a distinction without a difference until you get to the end of this surprising feature from writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen ( After the Wedding, Red Road, The Salvation ) and look back on every place that it has taken you.
The story starts a few days before Christmas in Estonia. A girl walking along a holiday-decorated street with her grandfather spots a red bicycle offered for sale by a street vendor but asks for a blue one instead. The vendor is part of a crime ring and calls an associate, who steals a blue bike belonging to Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg), which causes Mathilde s mother Emma (Anne Birgitte Lind) to have to pick her up at the train station, only to have their car fail to start, which causes them to take a commuter train home. A statistics and probability expert named Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) gives
âRiders of Justiceâ Review: Just Give Me a Reason
Mads Mikkelsen goes berserk in this gleefully violent, yet gold-hearted deconstruction of the revenge thriller.
From left, Nikolas Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann and Mads Mikkelsen in âRiders of Justice.âCredit.Rolf Konow/Magnet Releasing
By Beatrice Loayza
Riders of Justice
Action, Comedy, Drama
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In the jarring opening scene of âRiders of Justice,â one girlâs bike is stolen and turned into another kidâs Christmas present, kicking off a chain of events that results in a disastrous subway explosion. When Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a probability expert suffering from a bad case of survivorâs guilt, pins the calamity on the leader of a criminal gang, he inadvertently triggers another round of violence.