Riders Of Justice is a Danish revenge/dark comedy about an unlikely group of people brought together by a train accident which may have been an assassination. A soldier Markus(Mads Mikkelsen) returns home to his daughter Mathilde(Andrea Heick Gadeberg) after his wife is killed in a train accident. Shortly there after he is approached by an odd group of statisticians who believe, based on probability, that the accident was actually the concealed murder of a key witness against a criminal biker gang. They then work together to get revenge/justice.
Mikkelsen is excellent per usual and is able to provide some action movie bonafides as well as deploy some straight-man chops. The tone of the film is exceedingly odd particularly with the varied and big performances of the three sensitive, bookish, scientist types and although there is some gun play and fighting the focus is more on the growing interpersonal connections of the unlikely group and the bizarre dark sense of humor prevalent throughout.
Competently shot but without a lot of flare and an effective if unimposing soundtrack serve to highlight this weird alchemy of tone- character study/comedy/revenge inversion. It certainly will not be to everyone's taste and takes awhile to acclimate to particularly for a US viewer but has a lot to enjoy and for all it's strange, at times bleak machinations there is humor and hope on offer.
Familiar enough to enjoy, unique enough to interest.
Currently available for rent on most VOD platforms.
Rent It.
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