{"id":10933,"date":"2021-12-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:56:14","slug":"riders-of-justice-directed-by-anders-thomas-jensen-men-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=10933","title":{"rendered":"Riders of Justice \u2013 Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (Men &amp; Chicken)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cast:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann<br>The idea of Mads Mikkelsen, the menacing and captivating star of NBC\u2019s Hannibal and last year\u2019s Oscar-winner Another Round, getting his own Taken-like revenge vehicle is appealing enough. But&nbsp;<em>Riders of Justice<\/em>, a philosophically knotty and refreshingly contemplative Danish action thriller, is more than your average Neeson-esque revenge movie knock-off. Yes, Mikkelsen, sporting a gnarly beard and a shaved head, plays a stoic, violent man seeking to find the men responsible for killing his wife. There\u2019s plenty of suspense and twists and shoot-outs and even a deadly motorcycle gang, but director Anders Thomas Jensen, who also penned the script, finds room in this sprawling tale for bits of sharp comedy, most of it involving the team of stat-obsessed nerds who assist Mikkelsen\u2019s tough commando, and welcome detours into more metaphysical concerns surrounding ethics and randomness and chaos. As the plot digressions (and the bodies) pile up, Mikkelsen keeps the narrative humming with his unceasing intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cast:&nbsp;Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars BrygmannThe idea of Mads Mikkelsen, the menacing and captivating star of NBC\u2019s Hannibal and last year\u2019s Oscar-winner Another Round, getting his own Taken-like revenge vehicle is appealing enough. But&nbsp;Riders of Justice, a philosophically knotty and refreshingly contemplative Danish action thriller, is more than your average Neeson-esque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18873,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions\/18873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}