
The American West in the 1870s. A European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. He takes revenge on the murderers, only to discover that one was the brother of a local land baron, Henry Delarue. Delarue runs the local town with a brutal hand. Now he wants vengeance on the man who killed his brother and the local townspeople are too scared of him to stand up to him. Jon is fighting more th... (Full plot summary below)
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The American West in the 1870s. A European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. He takes revenge on the murderers, only to discover that one was the brother of a local land baron, Henry Delarue. Delarue runs the local town with a brutal hand. Now he wants vengeance on the man who killed his brother and the local townspeople are too scared of him to stand up to him. Jon is fighting more than just the local thugs, he is facing the entire town.
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| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertEven when we know the familiar iconography and storytelling tropes of old American classics that are thundering toward us, it's great to see them again. |
| Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiThis familiar material is pitched ever towards the ridiculous, but it's at least strongly played throughout. |
| Tolucan TimesTony Medleyin the grand tradition of Sergio Leone and his Spaghetti Westerns set in the American Old West but shot in Europe...enriched by a fine score by Kasper Winding that keeps the tension at a fever pitch with fine performances by Mads Mikkelson and Eva Green. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe Salvation has everything a good Western should have. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe Salvation never come across as a pastiche; the world of the spaghetti Western — that desertscape where filthy gunmen leer into frame and life is punctuated by sadism — doesn’t need winks or references to be appreciated, and Levring doesn’t offer any. |
| Screen InternationalFionnuala HalliganMads Mikkelson has the face for the frontier and just the right level of internalised, righteous rage to keep The Salvation on a rusty-knife-edge throughout. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellWild West vengeance gets a terrific homage and a bloody reckoning in this oater excursion ... |
| Sky CinemaTim EvansThis doesn't add much to the genre but it's always welcome to see a film that does it so well. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyA 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. |
| National PostKristian LevringIts evocative sets and settings, superior acting and bleak-as-a-dead-rattle-snake ethos make it the most entertaining western to come steaming into cinemas since the 3:10 to Yuma arrived eight long years ago. |