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The Last Viking review
Danish shaggy-dog story about a man with a dissociative disorder has a fun premise but wastes it on lots of goofy, humourless violence
TL;DR
- The film is a slapstick-violent black comedy and shaggy dog story.
- It is described as well-acted but relentlessly and bizarrely unfunny.
- Mads Mikkelsen plays Manfred, an abuse survivor with learning disabilities who believes he is John Lennon.
- His brother, Anker, tries to get Manfred to remember where he buried stolen money by reuniting a dysfunctional group who believe they are the other Beatles.
- The reviewer states that comedy is not Jensen's strength as a filmmaker.
- Sofie Gråbøl is mentioned as playing a martial arts enthusiast who owns the family home.