RETFAERDIGHEDENS RYTTERE (RIDERS OF JUSTICE)
Watchable. The title refers to a gang name but you don't doubt for a minute the actual riders of justice are our four protagonists. It's a brutal revenge story, a crime comedy, and a psychological drama, with an almost fairy-tale ending. While the unpredictability of the action is a forte, this genre combination takes you from one extreme to another and I sometimes had the impression the moviemakers didn't quite know what they wanted to achieve. It's convincingly acted but some of the humour is low-brow. Unfortunately, those bottom-end gags prey on your mind the longest. On a deeper level, the film tackles the role of pure chance in life and, which is psychologically true, how we always try to find sense in random incidents. One scene, where imaginary fire can be seen on Markus' trousers, wonderfully reflects Otto's fear of him. Unsurprisingly, you get another fantastic performance by Mads Mikkelsen, but also by Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro as the members of this motley crew. The whole thing is original, engaging, entertaining but flawed.
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