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- "Lack of mystery doesn't hurt the movie, but rather fits a story as elemental as this, one that at times resembles an illustrated list of genre codes and conventions." Manohla Dargis: The New York Times "Surprises are few and far between in 'The Salvation', but for Western fans looking for a fix, it'll do the trick. (...) Rating: ★★ (out offour)"
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Feb 27, 2015 · A luridly beautiful, lavishly violent western, “The Salvation” takes place in an America shaped less by history than by the legacies of some of its chroniclers, from Sergio Leone to Clint ...
Feb 27, 2015 · it happens, “The Salvation,” a Danish revenge Western starring Mads Mikkelsen, is a very real movie, and it is directed by Kristian Levring (“The King Is. Alive”), whose sensibility is a little more nuanced than that of the. sensationalist Refn, which is all to this movie’s benefit.
Oct 7, 2015 · We still get the occasional Western from time to time which brings me to “The Salvation”, a Danish revenge tale from co-writer and director Kristian Levring. The film tips its hat to several classic Western movie tropes, but at the same time it maintains an evocative and unique edge to it.
Feb 27, 2015 · NEW. After shooting the man who murdered his wife, a Danish settler (Mads Mikkelsen) incurs the wrath of the man's brother (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a ruthless land baron who rules their frontier ...
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Apr 16, 2015 · A Western made by Danes and shot in Johannesburg, The Salvation is a film with an age-old premise, a brash aesthetic, and primal heft. Its hero is Jon, played by Mads Mikkelsen, a Danish settler...
Jul 15, 2011 · A headline on Friday with a film review of “Salvation Boulevard” referred incorrectly to an incident in the film. The shooting of an outspoken atheist professor is an accident, not a murder.
Feb 27, 2015 · The Salvation, directed by Kristian Levring, opens with a crawl describing the period and what the main characters have been doing. Comparisons to the Clint Eastwood’s classic Unforgiven are unavoidable. The villain Delarue seems to be cut from the same cloth as Little Bill Daggett.
