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 Danish writer-director Kristian Levring has a deep fondness for the American western. His love and admiration for the genre is evident in almost every frame of The Salvation (out today), a serious, gritty western that's beautifully shot and effective enough, despite the fact that there's very little life in it. in their characters. It starts off pretty well, and Levring's heritage at first feels fresh and new. Mads Mikkelsen plays Jon, who, along with his brother Peter (Mikael Persbrandt), immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the late 1980s as society pushed west. Westerns usually feel very American, but Jon and Peter speak Danish and their "outsider" presence makes us feel like we're about to experience a Western seen through foreign eyes. Jon waits at a train station for his wife (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and his son (Toke Lars Bjarke) to arrive from abroad, having spent the last seven years apart. Jon has the American Dream on his mind and plans t...