Film Review - Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
May 29, 2014
A French-German production, the heroically titled “Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas” will most likely be identified as a historical adventure in the vein of Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart,” and the pictures share a few similarities in vast European locales and brutality of justice. However, “Age of Uprising” is a far more subtle creation, less about the roar of inhumanity and more about the cold stare of fairness. Led by exceptionally internalized work from star Mads Mikkelsen, the feature doesn’t reach out to the mass audience, instead embarking in a specialized direction of medieval disruption that often plays stoically and silently. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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