\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Last Viking is now available to rent on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video in the US, over a month after its May 29 VOD debut. Mads Mikkelsen plays Manfred, a man convinced he’s John Lennon, in his sixth film with director Anders Thomas Jensen and co-star Nikolaj Lie Kaas, following Riders of Justice. Jensen calls the performance unlike anything Mikkelsen has done before.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Manfred thinks he\u2019s John Lennon, and Mads Mikkelsen plays him with a curly wig and none of the icy elegance that made him famous. The Last Viking has quietly settled onto Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video since late May, racking up a 92% critics score while barely making noise beyond die-hard fans of Danish cinema. It\u2019s the sixth time Mikkelsen has teamed up with Nikolaj Lie Kaas under director Anders Thomas Jensen, and something about that long history lets the two actors dig into a sibling relationship that\u2019s equal parts brutal and tender. Critics keep circling back to one idea: this is a version of Mikkelsen nobody has seen before, and apparently that was entirely his own doing.<\/p>\n
A surreal blend of black comedy and Viking legacy<\/p>\n
Since May 29, 2026, American viewers have been able to discover one of the strangest Danish films in recent memory. The Last Viking, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, landed in limited theaters and on VOD simultaneously via Samuel Goldwyn Films<\/a>. The premise is deliberately absurd: Mads Mikkelsen plays Manfred, a man convinced he is John Lennon, while Nikolaj Lie Kaas portrays his skeptical brother Anker. The black comedy weaves cartoonish violence and family drama into a single, offbeat story.<\/p>\n A transformation Mikkelsen asked for<\/p>\n