and it involves a man seeking revenge after his wife is killed in a train accident. When I first saw the synopsis, I nearly Liam-ed my Neeson as I cursed the gods for taking Charles Bronson too soon.Thing is, this dandy foreign feature from Anders Thomas Jensen is only posing as a revenge film – clickbait for the violence junkies and the popcorn crowd. Yes, leading man Mads Mikkelsen plays a brooding killing machine out to avenge the loss of a loved one.
Markus is the film’s example of the first question’s thinking and the answer to the second. He drinks, shuts down and is of no comfort to his grieving daughter Mathilde, played Andrea Heick Gadeberg. She seeks to understand the tragedy, but her father wants none of it. “No good will come from talking about it,” he tells her.
Soon after his wife’s funeral, Markus is presented with the theory that the accident was not that. Statistical anomalies point to an assassination orchestrated by a street gang seeking to eliminate a key witness set to testify against them.