Mads Mikkelsen stars in this pitch-black Danish screwball comedy of revenge, starring as a heartbroken man whose wife’s suspicious death in a train crash leads to outlandish conspiracy theories and gangland bloodshed.
This Coen brothers-esque dark comedy from Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen (MEN & CHICKEN) begins with a seemingly random stolen bicycle and escalates into pure pandemonium. Marcus (Mads Mikkelsen) is a military vet who is called home from war after his wife, Emma, is killed and his daughter is traumatized by a horrible railway accident—or was this “accident” pre-planned? In his grief, Markus meets Otto, a witness to the train tragedy and an off-the-rails statistics expert, who becomes convinced that a vicious biker gang called the “Riders of Justice” is the real cause of the crash through a complicated series of deliberate events, beginning with the stolen bike. The two later team up with Otto’s wisecracking hacker friends, Lennart and Emmenthaler, who all prove to be woefully inept at using logic and firepower to avenge Emma’s death. As the scheme proceeds, plans begin to fall apart in increasingly unexpected ways. With a perfect balance of brutal violence, heartfelt tragedy, and oddball humor, RIDERS OF JUSTICE carries viewers on an entertaining journey involving probability, revenge, and the unintended consequences of best-laid plans.