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One of the most underrated action thrillers of recent times is now available to stream for free. Led by James Bond, MCU, Indiana Jones, and go-to villain actor Mads Mikkelsen, the action outing, which also harbors a lot of comedy, is titled Riders of Justice, and follows the Fantastic Beasts star as something of an antihero. Starring as former soldier, Markus, who is forced to return home to care for his daughter after his wife is killed in a train accident, Markus soon finds himself on a quest for revenge after a group of hackers drag him into a conspiracy.

Directed and written by Anders Thomas Jensen, Riders of Justice was released back in 2020 and stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller, and Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt. Riders of Justice is now available to stream for free on Tubi, and you...

There's a lot of talk about probability in this tonally unusual film from Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen but beneath the black comedy, violence and surprisingly touching moments of connection, it's the law of unintended consequences that rules proceedings.

The comedic vibe is signposted from the opening moments when a priest who looks for all the world like Santa Claus has an idle conversation about a bike for his young relative that sparks an event he, presumably, would never sanction. These sort of accidental triggers pepper the rest of the film as the tone shifts to tragedy and grief by way of absurdity and back again. The grief is, primarily, that experienced by Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg), who unexpectedly - thanks to a handful of those little accidents, including the news that her soldier dad Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) won't be coming home from his warzone for months - finds herself on.

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.

Writer-director Jensen knows Mikkelsen well, having written previous films for the actor including The Salvation, After The Wedding and Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself. Jensen has also enjoyed good fortune at the Oscars — directing 1998 Best Short Subject winner, Election Night; as co-writer of the 2009 winner in the same category, The New Tenants; and as screenwriter of Suzanne Bier’s 2011 Best Foreign Language Film laureate, In A Better World.

At the outset, Riders Of Justice, which...

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From Krzysztof Kieślowski to Ashton Kutcher, many of cinema’s greatest thinkers have been fascinated by the mind-boggling “what ifs” of blind chance and the butterfly effect. The movies — painstakingly constructed alternate realities that are created by exerting an unnatural degree of control over the randomness of the universe — have a funny way of calling to the kinds of people who look for patterns in the chaos around them (and perhaps a way to control it).

Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen is definitely one of them, and we ought to be mighty grateful for whatever strange quirks of fate brought the “Men & Chicken” director to his latest project. While “Riders of Justice” might introduce itself as a death-dark revenge comedy — a rather straightforward riff on the “Taken” formula with a lightly cosmic twist — nothing in this life is ever as simple as it seems. Or as strange. What starts...

A scene from Riders Of Justice (Retfærdighedens Ryttere), a Magnet release.

Photo credit: Rolf Konow. Courtesy of Magnet Releasing

Although the title reads like something from a 1930s Western, this is a very contemporary Danish revenge flick with a unique blend of action and comedy, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Mads Mikkelsen. It is also my favorite film, thus far, of 2021. Sneaky excellence in a surprising package.

We open with math geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) struggling to explain the commercial value of his algorithm for predictions, factoring far more causal factors than any other program. It is akin to the axiomatic butterfly in Africa fluttering its wings setting in motion a chain of events that result in something quite different across the globe. The tunnel-vision Board fails to see how it will serve their only goal of selling their product, so they fire him and his fellow nerds.

This is what life has been like for Mads Mikkelsen since “Another Round” collected the Best International Feature Film Oscar last month. He started rehearsing James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones 5” with Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, bookending the year he began with yet another franchise villain, Gellert Grindelwald, replacing Johnny Depp in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3.”

“I’m playing misunderstood people,” he said, smiling over Zoom. “I’ve had a few non-villainous American roles that tend to be the baddies; I did an American film called ‘Arctic.’ He’s not a villain, so I’m grateful for that. Maybe times will turn a little, and people are watching a little more of the Danish stuff. Maybe they’ll accept a funny accent for an everyday-man character. If that’s not the case, I’m happy with what I’m doing. I’m happy I’ve...

This is what life has been like for Mads Mikkelsen since “Another Round” collected the Best International Feature Film Oscar last month. He started rehearsing James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones 5” with Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, to be followed by a role as Kaecilius in Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” That will bookend the year he began with yet another franchise villain, Gellert Grindelwald, replacing Johnny Depp in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3.”

“I’m playing misunderstood people,” he said, smiling over Zoom. “I’ve had a few non-villainous American roles that tend to be the baddies; I did an American film called ‘Arctic.’ He’s not a villain, so I’m grateful for that. Maybe times will turn a little, and people are watching a little more of the Danish stuff. Maybe they’ll accept a funny accent for an everyday-man character.

Riders of Justice is an absolutely brilliant Danish film that cleverly crosses multiple genres. What begins as a revenge thriller turns into a wicked black comedy with a whole lot of heart. A superb ensemble cast, led by the always fantastic Mads Mikkelsen, will have you laughing out loud and cringing at the same time. Riders of Justice is terrific entertainment with a subversive edge. It's rare to see a film that addresses so many different themes successfully.

Riders of Justice opens with a seemingly innocuous act of theft that spurns a tidal wave of events. In Denmark, teenaged Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and her mother (Anne Birgitte Lind) get unexpected news. Markus Hansen (Mads Mikkelsen) has decided to stay with his unit in Afghanistan for another three months. He cares for his family, but has put his career as a soldier first. His wife decides to have a "skip...

Riders Of Justice (Retfærdighedens Rytterel) Magnet Releasing Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Anders Thomas Jensen Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Møller Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/1/21 Opens: May 14, 2021 “Riders […]

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Magnolia Pictures has released a trailer for Riders of Justice. This is the latest to star Mads Mikkelsen, and he's been quite busy as of late. The actor is seemingly joining every major franchise under the sun. Be that as it may, he is still finding time to star in original projects. In this case, he is in a gritty thriller as an ex-military man who is carving out a path of revenge on behalf of his late wife.

Wasting zero time, the trailer opens with a violent train accident. As a result, Markus (Mads Mikkelsen)has to come home from his military deployment to deal with the fallout. His wife died in the wreck and he is now solely responsible for looking after their daughter. But this is no mere accident. It soon becomes clear that there may have been more at play. As one might expect, this sets...

Other winners from Danish academy include Riders of Justice, Cry Wolf, The Mole.

Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round continues its streak by winning best film, best director, best original screenplay, best actor and best editing at Denmark’s Robert Awards, presented by the Danish Film Academy on Saturday night (Feb 6).

Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice, the opening film at Rotterdam last week, also fared well at the Roberts, winning best actress (newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg) and best supporting actor for Lars Brygmann, as well as best visual effects.

Another newcomer, Özlem Saglanmak, was named best supporting actress for...

When Anders Thomas Jensen hit 45 years of age the “Adam’s Apple” and “Men & Chicken” director said he had a “minor breakdown,” questioning the point of his life and desperately searching for meaning.

Channeling these feelings into the character of a military man with Ptsd whose wife has just died in a train explosion that may not have been an accident was the start point of Jensen’s fifth feature as a director: a mid-life noir that straddles action, comedy and existential drama.

Monday night’s Rotterdam Film Festival opener, “Riders of Justice” treads that delicate line between farce and tragedy as solider Markus (Jensen regular Mads Mikkelsen), also father to teenager Mathilde, hooks up with three oddball maths geeks to determine the cause of the fatal crash.

Markus’ band of data analysts and hackers – more accustomed to breaking into computer systems to steal free gym memberships than tracing criminal biker gangs,...

Deliriously wry and so perfectly balanced it should become a case study in script classes, “Riders of Justice” may be the film that finally gives Anders Thomas Jensen international recognition beyond his usual spotlight as a sought-after screenwriter. Comparisons with the Coen brothers will be inevitable given oddball characters whose fixations and genuine heart contrast with moments of extreme violence, yet the roots of this black revenge comedy go back even further, bringing an asocial spin to classic screwballers where a group of quirky misfits are balanced out by a lone woman who’s the most put-together and in touch of the bunch.

Jensen works with his customary stable of actors, many of whom have appeared in his previous four features including Mads Mikkelsen, the most globally recognized of the group and currently enjoying quite a year between this and “Another Round.” Box office in Denmark was predictably high for...

Riders of Justice International Trailer — Anders Thomas Jensen‘s Riders of Justice / Retfærdighedens ryttere (2020) international movie trailer has been released by Zentropa Productions and stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Roland Moller, Rikke Louise Andersson, Jesper Ole Feit Andersen, Kaspar Velberg, Gustav [...]

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The Oscar-winning Danish writer-director has just started shooting his new project on the island of Fyn and in Sweden. Anders Thomas Jensen has just started filming his new project, Riders of Justice, on the island of Fyn and in Sweden. Jensen is known for his dark humour and has over 30 feature credits under his belt; as a screenwriter, he has collaborated with directors such as Susanne Bier, Lone Scherfig, Martin Zandvliet, Tomas Villum Jensen and Kristian Levring. Furthermore, his 1998 effort Election Night was crowned Best Live-action Short Film at the Academy Awards, after he garnered two nominations in the same category in 1996 and 1997. His fifth feature, penned by the director himself, centres on Markus (played by Mads Mikkelsen), a military man on active duty who has to go home to look after his teenage daughter Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg) when his wife dies in a tragic...

Produced by Danish outfit Zentropa, shooting on the €5.3m feature began this week.

Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Riders Of Justice, a dark comedy written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, which will be sold internationally by TrustNordisk.

Jensen is perhaps best known as the screenwriter behind Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning In a Better World but has directed features including Men & Chicken, Adam’s Apples, The Green Butchers and Flickering Lights – all of which starred Mikkelsen.

The cast of his latest feature also includes Nikolaj Lie Kaas, star of the Department Q franchise, Lars Brygmann (That Time Of Year...

Thrilling news: the great Mads Mikkelsen is reuniting with the great Anders Thomas Jensen for a new, dark comedy. Titled Riders of Justice, the film "follows Markus," according to Deadline, " who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident, until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up saying they are convinced someone is behind it." Deadline reports that filming began yesterday, and also names the co-stars including "Nikolaj Lie Kaas (The Department Q film series), Lars Brygman (That Time Of Year), Nicolas Bro (Nymphomaniac), Gustav Lindh (Queen Of Hearts), Roland Møller (Papillion), and Andrea Heick Gadeberg (Daniel)." Nicolas...

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Mads Mikkelsen is set to headline the dark comedy “Riders of Justice” written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, the well-known Danish helmer and screenwriter of Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning “In a Better World.”

Mikkelsen will star in the film alongside Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“The Department Q Series”), Lars Brygmann (“That Time of the Year), Nicolas Bro (“Nymphomaniac”), Gustav Lindh (“Queen of Hearts”), Roland Møller (“Valhalla”) and the newcomer Andrea Heick Gadeberg (“Daniel”).

The story revolves Markus, a deployed military man who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of.

Produced by leading Scandinavian company Zentropa, the €5.3 million movie is represented in international markets by TrustNordisk which is describing the...

Mads Mikkelsen is leading the cast of Scandi pic Riders Of Justice, the latest feature from Oscar-Winning Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.

Jensen is a noted screenwriter with more than 30 feature credits; he has collaborated with the likes of Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig. As a director, he helmed a trio of Oscar nominated shorts in 1997, 1998, and 1999, winning for the latter. His features, characterized by their dark humor, include 2005 comedy-drama Adam’s Apples, 2003 pic The Green Butchers, and 2015 film Men & Chicken, all of which also starred Mikkelsen and screened at Toronto.

His latest film follows Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up saying they are convinced someone is behind it.