TonHis poster picture is a man with a gray beard, shaved head, dressed up, and looks very mean Maze Mickelson, Combined with this title, may sound alarm bells… Along the line, “Oh, no, he is making a Taken.” Fortunately, this unpredictable Danish film did not give us a straightforward A middle-aged revenge thriller, but the whole metaphor is broken up. There are indeed action stimuli, but they are folded into a group therapy course about sadness, guilt, revenge, chance, and coincidence. Fortunately, it is often lively.
Mickelson plays Marcus, a military commander. His wife was killed in a train collision and he was recalled from Afghanistan. As Liam Neeson said, he may have a specific set of skills, but emotional intelligence is not one of them. Marcus refused to accept counseling and tried to get in touch with his teenage daughter. Fortunately, Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is here. He is a math geek who happens to be on the same train as Markus’s wife. Accompanying him are eccentric partners Lennart (Lars Brigman) and Emmentaler (Nicholas Brow). They are convinced that the crash was not an accident, but a targeted killing related to a violent bicycle gang.
Suddenly, these people have a mission, Mickelson’s alpha male is on the cutting edge, and three delta males are his technical support. But things did not develop as expected. The plan quickly spiraled out of control; at the same time, the three geeks almost became internal consultants to Marcus and his daughter. “I have received more than 4,000 hours of treatment,” Lennart boasted. The crazy plot (written by directors Anders Thomas Jensen and Nicolas Assel) is so far-fetched and capricious that it shouldn’t work at all, but somehow it’s all combined, almost The style of the Coen brothers. There is a sincere sympathy for these injured characters, intelligent thinking about fate, coincidence and trauma, all of which are helped by some pleasant absurdity and bold comedy.
“Justice Knight” will be released in cinemas and digital platforms on July 23.
