The New York Times
(A) gold-hearted, yet gleefully bloody deconstruction of the revenge thriller...
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Riders of Justice
Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round) leads this darkly comic Danish revenge thriller as a military man forced to return home after his wife dies in a train accident. But when he discovers it may have been an orchestrated assassination, he and three of his cohorts hunt down those responsible.
2020Rating: NR116 minsDenmark, SwedenVertigo Films
ActionComedyDramaThrillerWorld Cinema
Riders of Justice / Reviews
Wall Street Journal
A deliciously absurdist, fundamentally serious, even philosophical enterprise that uses a superheated revenge plot to address our common need for making sense out of life.
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The Globe and Mail
A pitch-black comedy about questions, coincidences and ideas that pile up faster than the body count.
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Empire Magazine
(Riders of Justice) is underpinned by notions of probability and predictability but builds a story that delights in twists, turns and originality.
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The Guardian
Anders Thomas Jensen’s film is far-fetched, tonally wayward and shouldn’t work at all, but somehow it all comes together.
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A.V. Club
A scattered but likable jumble, the film has a thoughtful manner more than it has actual thoughts, much like the trio of quasi-intellectuals joining forces with Markus.
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Screen Daily
When you're not gasping or laughing, it's only to wonder at the mind which pulled all of this together.
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Slant Magazine
Ultimately fumbles by abandoning character portraiture for pyrotechnic cliché.
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