Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, ‘the man who refuses to die’ dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues.
10/10, can't recommend enough
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 jumped. So he jumps them. Fantastic experience.
I must admit that Id entirely forgotten about Sisu (2022) until I sat down to watch this, and then it all came flooding back. Maybe that is because this isnt so very different. He (Jorma Tommila) has returned from his native Finland to his former home in what is now Soviet occupied Karelia to collect it. Yep, he is going to dismantle the wooden home he built for his murdered family and relocate it across the border. The Soviets still remember the carnage he caused last time around, and so release his erstwhile tormentor Dragunov (Stephen Lang) from a gulag with instructions to terminate him and earn his freedom (and lots of roubles). What now ensues is like a militaristic game of snakes and ladders as Sisu faces soldiers, armoured cars, fig...
"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 truly looks like a intelligently rendered back story. What made the first "Rambo" film work so well, putting the intense action aside for a moment, was a truly heartfelt back story, with a character, who, at least for one film had personal depth, that was wholly relatable, wholly "human".
This film aspires in this direction, early on and looks like its could get there but quickly devolves, into what feels a lot like a "Call of Duty" style, c...