Riders of Justice

Don't let the "straight to Redbox action movie" title and poster trick you, this is actually a smart drama that functions equally as a deconstruction of action movie morality and as a meditation on grief, all punctuated by perfect little pockets of humor and violence.

There were some great black humour moments scattered throughout, but it succeeds more as a drama. The sad/precious moments hit really hard because the film does a good job of making us invest in the characters. Mads is the best here but everyone is noteworthy. Solid directing, juggles elements wisely, specifically when Mads is killing and he does a great job of making him look terrifying. Data, psychology, revenge... all things I like. A cool twist is in here too that's a little heartbreaking.

Hopefully the start/continuation of my favorite working actor, Mads Neesonsen.

i'll commend what they're trying to do here, but i'm too much of a sucker for tone to have this work for me. this goes back and forth asking me to cry for loss and trauma issues, but laugh heartily at fat people and rape victims because they have "funny" quirks, while marveling at mad mads mowing down mobsters by the dozen...and then it sacrifices the opportunity to finally make an impactful point on the futility of repressed and misdirected grief...for a badly set up gag-twist.

Seems like there aren't any bad films from Denmark

It's hard to resist a a revenge thriller where the line ""Let's get this over with as a team so we can go home and eat banana cake." is uttered.

ATJ's movies always seem to go for a morbidly funny tone, too often veering into just plain morbid. This time around the tone lands well enough on the right side of the line, and whatever your feeling towards his somewhat crass style may be, you can't deny how well he writes characters for specific actors. For the most part an enjoyable action comedy although the ending did feel a bit rushed - echoing the violent climaxes of Tony Scott movies, where everything is resolved in a giant shootout.

The part of the movie carried (well, of course) by Mikkelsen was interesting. The tonal clash brought on by his 3 henchmen that introduces a sort of cringeworthy entrylevel slapstick absurdism was too much for me to bear and made me hate the movie. Never A. T. Jensen again, for me.

Riders of Justice is a beautifully written, impressive drama that makes you laugh with its dark humor and sadden with its bitter-sweet moments. All of the main characters somehow captivated me, had a therapeutic effect. The performances are great, especially Mads Mikkelsen is flawless.

Taken with NERDS Coincidentally a Christmas movie

The lead's a Scandanavian Rambo but the message is pacifist & requires huge coincidences to get the message across. Apparently, there was a 3rd guy who looked the same? This might've turned me off since I'm not sure if the director can imagine soldiers who only use aggression appropriately, but since it's established that Rambo has PTSD it's fair to point out that its victims may well hit people who don't deserve it. This is also darkly funny & makes good points about the human desire to blame.

This does quite a remarkable job of blending abrupt and graphic violence, deep emotional pain, and some very effective humor to make something very entertaining. Mikkelsen, as per usual, is stellar, but the rest of the cast holds their own against his foreboding darkness.

What a gem. It often feels like its leads are in two totally different movies--three in a gritty action/drama and the other two in a slapstick comedy--and it just totally works. It's actually just kind of amazing how well that difficult tone balance is achieved. My only complaints were some dumb writing in the first half, but turns out it wasn't dumb at all and was in fact extremely clever. Great movie.

Funny, heartwarming, and entertaining. One of the best films of the year.

Depending on your expectations, you’ll be surprised by its poignancy or its humour - or both if you just saw Mads Mikkelsen with a shaved head and rifle over his shoulder and blacked out in a dream of sexy violence (me). It’s all here, treading a nuanced path of consequence, trauma, and relationship that’s full of laughs, pain, (fatphobia), and *hah* intelligent design. Carefully considered and powerfully performed.

Mikkelsen & Gadeberg deliver strong dramatic performances in Riders of Justice, but the film doesn't stray far enough away from its revenge-thriller premise to get truly interesting. The comedy is momentary, though the way the film plays out could be considered a wry joke. The prediction aspect is interesting, but defaults to causation is complex and is used as a means of coping with grief. Kaas has great line delivery as he provides some frantic energy. The film is well-made, but too familiar.

A true genre mashup that actually justifies all its genre tags, and impressively, does a reasonable job juggling them. Enabled by excellent acting, it has nice flourishes of suspense and action, somewhat syrupy but sentient drama, and probably the funniest comedy I've ever seen from the Danes.

The movie has some hilarious jokes (e.g., when an assassination is being deduced from a sandwich being thrown out), and Brygmann, who just keeps getting better and better, is a highlight. The plot is fairly original, but the script also overreaches, and Bro's made-up swearwords were super lame.

Like a clip show of previous ATJ movies with all the stereotypes, cliches and crass bullshit and almost none of the charm. Weak as fudge.

(BIKEN)

New favourite Christmas movie. Mads kills it in this. Solid cast.

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This is 4 movies in one; Action, Suspense, Drama and Comedy. And all 4 deliver.

Dark comedy merged with extreme violence and an eclectic mix of characters suffering from severe trauma-create a disarming but effective and entertaining whole.

Wow...what a film!. Its quite thought provoking and poignant at times and its also got an element of dark comedy about it. I like how the daughters view their fathers somewhat extreme actions and the talk about justice, social justice aka activisim. The whole subject of statistics, whats inevitable and what isnt. There are some plot details that happen very suddenly and may provoke the ocassional jump scare (just mentioning it incase that puts some people off). Its v. quirky-I enjoyed it a lot.

Mads Mikkelson looks menacingly at the screen. Pretty good for what it is, a revenge movie.

I actually went into this forgetting that it was a foreign language movie, which I don't often watch. The movie also ended up being quite different than what I was expecting. It took a concept which very easily could have been a simple revenge thriller, which I'm sure Mads Mikkelsen would have excelled at, and turned it into something a bit more interesting than that, and I really enjoyed it.

This slick mash up of genres hits highs and nonsensical lows.

But if everything is merely coincidences, isn’t the most natural reaction then to feel that nothing matters? Then where do we go with all our sorrow, all our fear and loneliness?

One of my favourite movies of the year. Outstanding dramatic and comedic tonal shifts. The chemistry between the actors is undeniable. An absolute treat to watch. I look forward to watching their previous work together. 9.2

Nice European action movie, a little bit more smart that US ones

It a strange mix of drama and quirky comedy, but it does work in a charming way

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Not as fun as I had hoped it to be. Yet another example of the infantilisation of Hollywood and its influence on European cinema - a poor attempt at ticking all the formulaic box office check boxes and making a commercial success: quirky characters? Check. Formulaic humour we've seen a a thousand times? Check. Formulaic plot which we know where its going at every moment? Check. Unrealistic consequences and world? Check. But at least it has Mads so it's watchable. /G8, Sofia Film Fest 2022.

I'm not entirely sure what it wanted to be other than maybe a high concept of what an action movie would be like if the characters dealt with each other's trauma instead of a looming threat. I wasn't gripped enough for a second watch to make sure.

A pretty good action movie with some really effective drama in there. Mads Mikkelsen is fantastic yet again.

A cavalcade of all-too-flat caricatures and a lazy script are somehow sublimated under the sheer titanic weight of the acting performances.

I didn't always buy the characters' behavior, but I enjoyed the way that the story unfolded. The villains remain too much of a cipher, unfortunately.

I think this is my favourite Anders Thomas Jensen film, mainly due to the more mature nature of the drama. The comedy is, as always, well-written and often quite provoking. The ending was the weakest part.

It tries maybe too hard to distort what we expect from funny, deadpan revenge thrillers -- although landing exactly where we know it will land --, but the fact is that the first half works greatly and second falls short in big fashion.

1859: it was good and fun! like it!

Peaks during a mooning, an honour few if any movies can cling to. It is the culmination of the ambivalent tone Jensen rides throughout, a movie both "I'm going to hell for laughing at this" funny and heartfelt, a serious farce. This tone-juggling is a high wire act where one farcical misstep can make all the drama land all wrong. For me, the act did not work completely. The funny acts, especially those more provocative, were a hoot but the drama suffered. I was left entertained but unmoved.

I like the narrative frame better than the movie itself. Lots of good (and weak) elements.

Offbeat, but deadpan humor is not my stuff. A few chuckles here and there doesn't constitute a film, especially when you don't connect with the emotional core of the film, which is all-important in a film like this.

I expected a thriller with a dynamic script and some twists. But what I saw was just an excuse to introduce annoying characters in ridiculous situations that should be funny. Everything in this movie was superficial and artificial.

Not great but has its moments. Feels like a rehash of Anders Thomas Jensens previous movies without the charm. The characters are stereotypes without any debt and most of the jokes stale as week old bread if you have seen ATJ previous movies.

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