The Salvation

John Chard

9.0

February 25, 2016

Sometimes you gotta sacrifice a single sheep to save the rest. The Salvation is directed by Kristian Levring and Levring co-writes the screenplay with Anders Thomas Jensen. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Jonathan Pryce and Douglas Henshall. Music is by Kasper Winding and cinema...

Reno

8.0

July 04, 2016

> Revenge for a revenge. It is a Danish western revenge flick set in the American soil, so 99 per cent it was in the English language. Well, in my opinion, it is underrated for sure. It was not anything stylish like QT's recent western films, but quite usual presentation yet very majestic. The story takes place in a couple of days in a...

Per Gunnar Jonsson

6.0

April 12, 2018

This is a decent enough Danish-made spaghetti western. Nothing more and nothing less. It could easily have been a young Clint Eastwood in this movie. Instead the lead character is Mads Mikkelsen who makes a quite reasonable performance as far as I am concerned. I have to say that it felt a bit funny when the characters spoke Danish in th...

r96sk

7.0

October 16, 2023

I anticipated more from it, though <em>'The Salvation'</em> is a worthwhile 90 minutes. It reminded me of 1973's <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/high-plains-drifter/" rel="nofollow">High Plains Drifter</a>'</em>, not necessarily bar for bar but more the general vibe of it all... at least in terms of what I remember from that ...