Riders of Justice (2020)

Riders of Justice is a darkly comic, violent, and emotionally charged thriller about grief, chance, and the messy way people try to make sense of loss. After Markus, a battle-hardened soldier, returns home to care for his teenage daughter Mathilde when his wife is killed in a horrific train crash, the apparent accident is called into question by Otto — a socially awkward statistics nerd and one of the few survivors — and his two equally eccentric friends. What begins as a cold calculation of probabilities soon becomes a brutal, improvised mission for answers and retribution. Watching the film, you’ll move between spare, intimate moments of father‑daughter mourning and sudden bursts of physical action and black humor. The tone flips easily: deadpan jokes and quirky, off-kilter dialogue sit alongside tense investigations, grisly violence, and moments of real emotional gravity. Markus’s stoic, lethal presence clashes with Otto’s obsessive logic and the crew’s oddball personalities, creating both comic friction and moral complexity as their amateur inquiry spirals into vigilantism. Expect tight, character-driven storytelling that asks uncomfortable questions about fate, responsibility, and how people cope with trauma. The movie balances smart plotting (the statistical puzzle at its core) with visceral, pragmatic action scenes and surprising tenderness, especially in the evolving bond between Markus and Mathilde. Overall, Riders of Justice delivers a provocative mix of action, dark comedy, and drama — a film that shocks, amuses, and lingers emotionally long after the credits roll.

Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Runtime: 116 min

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama

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