10 Underrated Recent Movies That Deserve A Second Chance

I'm not sure if The Salvation would play better or worse if it came out now rather than two years ago. When it hit in 2014, a western release was still very much an oddity, a throwback doubling as a joke, but since we've seen the genre really rise; Slow West, The Hateful Eight, The Revenant and Bone Tomahawk are all absolute standouts. So on the one hand audiences could be more open to it, on the other it may suffer by not being quite as good as the others.

Regardless, this is still a good film (and a step above recent box office hit The Magnificent Seven). Mads Mikkelsen gives an unsurprisingly great turn as a vengeful father stepping into something much bigger than him and the late-era trappings are effectively done, especially as the story's framed from an immigrant perspective. You do have Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Eric Cantona hamming it up as villains and a questionably obvious conclusion - is it changing times or a wink-wink modern parallel? - but that shouldn't matter: did I not already mention that it stars Mads freaking Mikkelsen?