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RIDERS OF JUSTICE Review – A Look At The Latest From Anders Thomas Jensen & Mads Mikkelsen

This will come as a shock to no one, but action films are violent. It’s simply inherent to the formula. Bullets flying, cars crashing, wild brawls, and the destruction of property are par for the course. There is also a lot of death and loss caused by that carnage. Sometimes that aspect is hand waved away with a “just don’t think about it” attitude or it’s used as motivation for even more violence. Rarely though does a film with action trappings confront the heavy thought of what loss and the associated trauma actually does to a person. That idea though is at the core of Danish writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen’s new film RIDERS OF JUSTICE.

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Mads Mikkelsen is on the hunt in the trailer for “Riders of Justice”

The “grizzled older badass extracting revenge on people who unwittingly screwed with them” has become a tired trope in the years since Liam Neeson first warned of his “particular set of skills” in 2008’s TAKEN. Since then, almost every action star, or older actor trying to revitalize their career, has done a film with a similar setup, leading to understandably mixed results. With so many examples of this action subgenre around now, it takes exceptional talent and a unique approach to make one of these projects interesting.

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