The Salvation

read the glowing reviews and assumed it'd be a great movie to watch. Mads' character is a former soldier from another country who doesn't bother protecting his wife when a man slides his hand under her skirt. By the time he finally pulls a gun, it's too late. He wears the same facial expression for as long as I watched. I don't know where script writers got the idea for town bullies in westerns, but it's unbelievable, not to mention old and worn. The whole town does whatever the bully shouts, including the sheriff/pastor, protrayed as the proverbiable, hypocriticale Christian. The entertainment industry hates God and Christains, and it's evedent here. The bully says frog, and the sheriff/pastor says how high, instead of relying on God. The bully uses God as a curse word. I don't care about the wonderful acting, costumes, onsight locations; when the name of my heavenly Father is used as profanity, I won't watch anymore of it. I ejected the DVD and threw it in the trash where it belongs.

Two Danish brothers leave Denmark after fighting the Prussians in the Second Schleswig-Holstein War of 1864. After 7 years in the U.S. West the wife and son of one of the brothers arrive by train. It’s an awkward but touching reunion of a family that must get re-acquainted in a strange dusty foreign place.They have to takes stage coach to their home which is a days ride from the nearest town.An unspeakable tragedy occurs which involves the criminal younger brother of the local bully who takes protection money from that nearby town. The men of the town, including the local sheriff who doubles as a preacher in the town’s only church, are afraid of the bully. The town pays the price for cowering before the bully.A large corporation is behind the bully’s coercion of the town.Who will stop the bully? What price will have to be paid fighting him?Stand outs including Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Raymond-James, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eva Green, Douglas Henshall, and Jonathan Price.

Revenge stories have been around for a long time and the movies that are successful in bringing these stories to our screens do so with great presentation, story, and character. The movie is beautiful with it's locations, sets, props, and costumes. The story is brilliantly ugly with the unfortunate circumstances that the main character finds himself in. I thought the set up for the film was perfect. A good man who has a beautiful wife and son...hasn't seen them in seven years and on the day he is finally reunited with them....wow...TRAGEDY! I don't want to give any spoilers but as events unfolded, I found myself almost too squeamish to watch. I couldn't help but to think, "Man...if that was to happen to me"! It doesn't stop there because other things follow that drive the character to his ultimate destiny of confrontation to those who have done him wrong.I really enjoyed the film and knew nothing about it until I saw it on Amazon's new releases for Tuesday. I watched a trailer online and decided to go for it. I've always loved western films and although this story is a familiar one, I thought the presentation here was excellent. The setup of the characters at the beginning was very well done. Seeing these events unfold made me curious as to how the main character was going to handle this. As he obtains justice for one tragedy, another soon finds it's way into his life and this propels the story further and he eventually meets the ultimate villain in the story....and what a villain he is! There are some very brutal scenes in the film especially where this bad guy is concerned!The acting was very well done and I am impressed with Eva Green! What a gorgeous actress. She doesn't say a word throughout the entire film and has to rely on her eyes, facial expressions, and body language. Again, I don't want to spoil what part her character plays in all of this, but you'll find her character and Eva Green's performance to be outstanding.I really enjoyed the film and was impressed by the acting, music, setting/scenery, and story. I thought that the main character was very realistic and not too much of a "super-hero gunslinger". It's a beautiful looking film and it looks amazing on Blu Ray. For fans of the western genre this is a must see film!

To understand why I gave this film 5 stars, you would have to know that I am a western fanatic and a major Mads Mikkelsen fan; the fact that Eva Green and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are in the cast is icing on the cake. The violence is graphic but appropriate; the location shots enhance the aura of isolation and desolation in the ravaged western township. I recommend this film to anyone who likes westerns and is prepared for a bit of the bizarre.

Una excelente película, imágen perfecta audio en inglés únicamente tiene subtítulos en español, la recomiendo ampliamente.