The familiar vengeance payback genre has some goofy and entirely welcome top-spin applied to it in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice.
The Danish film also features a version of Mads Mikkelsen — currently at a career peak — that we’ve never seen before, with his handsome face hidden behind an Ozark-style full beard as a tough army officer ill-prepared to console his bereft teenaged daughter in the wake of her mother’s violent death.
At the outset, Riders Of Justice, which Magnet Releasing currently has in U.S. cinemas and which premieres there on-demand today ahead of its UK release in July via Vertigo, has a determinedly mainstream feel.
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