"The Salvation" is a grim, violent and really rather unpleasant art-house western that comes to us, not from America at all but by way of Denmark, the United Kingdom and even South Africa. Mads Mikkelsen is the Danish settler who comes into conflict with land-grabber Jeffrey Dean Morgan after he kills Morgan's brother after said brother has murdered Mikkelsen's son and raped and killed Mikkelsen's wife. It's a very stylish picture but also a deeply derivative one, It's painfully obvious that director Kristian Levring has seen one too many Spaghetti westerns and Clint Eastwood pictures not to mention paying tribute to John Ford whenever he can. As a genre picture it's perfectly acceptable; it's just not as original as it thinks it is.Friday 15 March 2019
THE SALVATION *
"The Salvation" is a grim, violent and really rather unpleasant art-house western that comes to us, not from America at all but by way of Denmark, the United Kingdom and even South Africa. Mads Mikkelsen is the Danish settler who comes into conflict with land-grabber Jeffrey Dean Morgan after he kills Morgan's brother after said brother has murdered Mikkelsen's son and raped and killed Mikkelsen's wife. It's a very stylish picture but also a deeply derivative one, It's painfully obvious that director Kristian Levring has seen one too many Spaghetti westerns and Clint Eastwood pictures not to mention paying tribute to John Ford whenever he can. As a genre picture it's perfectly acceptable; it's just not as original as it thinks it is.
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