.
I am taking a break from working overtime at the day-job this week, and so I have a little more time to write for my blog.
2022 saw the release of the Finnish action flick Sisu, which followed the story of Finnish gold prospector and former special forces commando Aatami Korpi slaughtering a number of fleeing war criminal Nazis during the ending days of World War 2. The action was comically over the top, defying physics and reason but immensely satisfying. Apparently satisfying enough for a second movie, Sisu: The Road to Revenge.
Screen Gems
The sequel ignores Korpi’s (Jorma Tommila) lucky gold strike and takes place in 1946. Following the end of the war, Finland surrendered significant land to the Soviet Union. Korpi has returned to his home, now in Soviet territory, in hopes of bringing his simple cabin that he shared with his deceased wife and child back to Finland to rebuild it. Having killed numerous Soviet soldiers during the war, the Red High Command has decided that the living legend should live no more and pulls one of their war criminals out of Siberia, the military man responsible for the massacre of Korpi’s family, and assigned him the task of killing Korpi The Immortal.
What follows can best be described as a Finnish Fury Road but with far less adherence to any recognized laws of physics or biology. Korpi, with a large flatbed truck, attempting to return to Finland with his disassembled home, encounters numerous Soviet units intent on killing him.
How over the top is Sisu: The Road to Revenge? Well, the 1985 action movie Commando is a grounded and gritty portrayal in comparison.
If one can suspend all their understanding of the physical world and accept that this is a live action but bloody cartoon, then Sisu: The Road to Revenge is a very enjoyable feature, a perfect popcorn movie for a brainless bit of fun watching impossible action as vengeance is visited upon well deserving monsters.
If you cannot set aside physics, then the movie will only be a series of ‘oh, come on!’ exclamations as more and more impossible feats are performed by Korpi The Immortal.
