The Last Viking

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The Last Viking

2025

1h 50m

Comedy

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50+ Ratings

Ty Burr

Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)

Dec 6

2.5/4

As always, Jensen and company are making a screwball comedy, with dark and violent undertones, about finding a community of exceedingly strange strangers with whom you can be as broken and deluded as you need to be.

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Thelma Adams

AARP Movies for Grownups

Sep 16

5/5

It’s a journey down a resonant rabbit hole with Mikkelsen, hilariously permed, fearlessly silly, emotionally complex and endlessly endearing.

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Jason Bailey

RogerEbert.com

Sep 15

‘The Last Viking' sports a cockeyed streak a mile wild, trafficking in the best kind of straight-faced absurdism—wry, but simultaneously genuine and sincere.

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James Mottram

Radio Times

Oct 15

4/5

Mikkelsen is glorious, but so is Kaas as a man with serious anger management problems. Somehow, despite the bloodshed, this is a genuinely sweet story about sibling love.

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Sarah Manvel

Movies We Texted About

Oct 14

[Not] interested in playing safe, whether in tone, setting or message. That absolute refusal to sanitise any of the bleaker topics here makes The Last Viking a brave movie indeed. It’s just a little too raw, in every sense of the word.

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

Oct 5

Dares audiences to laugh at the unlikeliest of characters, then makes them care deeply in spite of themselves. Blending dark comedy, brutal violence, and unexpected heart, it’s a wickedly entertaining ride that’s as disturbing as it is disarmingly human.

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Luis P

@Snaporaz 4d

Didn't like it at all. Badly scripted black comedy, too much random violence in useless places and not funny at all except for a few suicide attempts. Would need a ton of trigger warnings about suicide, child abuse, mental illness, mutilation and even a dog is killed. Also I suspect some jokes are lost in translation and you need to be from Denmark or Sweden to get them.

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Marco K

@Marco69 Jan 3

A captivating film from start to finish. Also hilarious, but with a clear deeper meaning. An interesting denouement at the end of the film.

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Kevin L

@Lakeman Dec 29

This one is some dark, twisted stuff. It's comedic, sure. But it's only sporadically a 'comedy'. Dark comedy at that. But w/ the child abuse, Freja getting bashed in the face repeatedly, and mental illness issues, any critic or other viewer calling this a 'screwball comedy' might needs psychiatric help themselves. Mikkelsen is exceptional, But Lie Kaas and the other support role players are terrific as well. And that was necessary to pull off such a challenging plot and to make several characters seem believable and not just ludicrous. I was expecting lighter fare and more laughs for the descriptions given. I like a lot of dark, disturbing comedy. And I'm not put off by crude comic content, either. But some of this material is beyond comical the way it was treated. And it was necessary to create the overall impression of how and why Anker and Manfred/John are as 'off kilter' as they are. 3.7 stars

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Ben W

@Ben.W Dec 24

It's a beautiful movie. Funny, weird characters who you end up loving/respecting and a rewarding story. I hope there is Oscar buzz behind this. Denmark is showing off its talent once again.

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Sem K

@Sem_Kee Dec 16

Great movie. Funny, dark and great characters.

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Yasmine N

@Yazzminazz Dec 16

So good the scenario, images , narration, drawings everything is amazing

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Anders Thomas Jensen

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Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Anker

Mads Mikkelsen

Manfred

Lars Ranthe

Far

Sofie Gråbøl

Margrethe

Kardo Razzazi

Hamdan

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Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Sidsel Hybschmann
Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen
Production Co: Zentropa
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: Danish
Runtime: 1h 50m