Sisu: Road to Revenge

### The movie is exactly what you would expect from Sisu 2: - a good balance between possible to survive and plot armor, - total unpredictability while being able to tell exactly what is going to happen in a minute's time, - a piece of art hilarious in its absurd, - a western in Finland. 10/1…

Ridiculously over-the-top. Insultingly impossible action. Glorious. Look past all of the insane levels of destruction and carnage and you will see the special heart of this story. A man is going to take his family home. It's that simple. Along the way he encounters some.... hurdles that need to be j…

I must admit that I’d entirely forgotten about “Sisu” (2022) until I sat down to watch this, and then it all came flooding back. Maybe that is because this isn’t so very different. He (Jorma Tommila) has returned from his native Finland to his former home in what is now Soviet occupied Karelia to co…

"Sisu: Road to Revenge" is a polished case of "style over substance" with a predictable, anti-Russian message. All the trappings are there. Excellent sets, spectacular cinamatography, at times entertaining, if over the top action and capable acting, from the cast. What's missing is anything that…

About as good as the last one. I think a bit tighter. Can we kill the old man fighting genre? Dude’s cool and all but there’s a lot of old dudes fighting. Too much old dudes fighting and planes maintaining altitude while sideways. Spoilers. Dude should have let the dog cross the border without th…