Mads Mikkelsen may be a cunning and intimidating presence to American audiences who know him from Casino Royale, Dr. Strange, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and TV’s Hannibal. But in his native Denmark, he’s proven himself a far more chameleonic artist, especially when partnering with director Anders Thomas Jensen.

In their six collaborations (not counting The Promised Land, which Jensen co-wrote), Mikkelsen has exhibited a fondness for crazy comedic characters, be it a masturbation-fixated mutant in Men & Chicken or a vengeance-seeking military vet in Riders of Justice. Those off-kilter instincts continue to be spot-in in The Last Viking, a black comedy in which the leading man plays an odd duck who believes he’s John Lennon—and is th

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