Sisu: Road to Revenge



"Was that your revenge?  I expected something legendary."   - Yeagor Draganov


release year: 2025
genre: action/adventure
viewing setting: home Bluray 5/1/26

synopsis: The bad-ass old Finnish soldier decides to take apart his house and move it back to his homeland...but a Russian officer is assigned to get rid of him.

impressions: It didn't take this one long to show what was what; it happened before the 9-minute mark. The one guy just wants to bring his disassembled house from Soviet-occupied Finland back to non-Soviet-occupied Finland. The other guy just wants to kill him to make up for the past embarassment he caused. And so the stage is set for a whole lot of violence and mayhem. The protagonist is more or less unstoppable, no matter what damage is done to him; he just keeps on going. Examples of his bad-ass moments in this film:
  • he drives right over flaming wreckage
  • he hides a knife blade within his own flesh
  • a bad guy jumps off the moving train rather than face him
  • he walks across broken glass, barefoot

    • There were also some examples of what me and my fellow viewers started referring to as "miracles" - times when something impossible was shown to be possible. These included:
  • throwing a corpse at a pursuing truck
  • somehow installing a metal plate on top of his truck, to stop bullets
  • deploying wooden beams as a makeshift ramp to deflect a crashing plane
  • driving right off a cliff and into the water without any real issues
  • somehow reassembling the logs into a raft
  • somehow loading the logs onto a tank
  • causing the (log-loaded) tank to somersault over a barrier
  • using a missile to propel his detached train car to catch up
  • a burnt passport somehow surviving and being recovered
  • hand-cranking the train car with all the logs
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    body count: I made it to about 20 before he started walking through train cars full of Soviet soldiers while firing two machine guns - at which pointa true count was no longer possible. I'd guess about 40-50 overall.

    acting: Jorma Tommila is back as the generally un-talkative old badass who absolutely will not deviate from his intended course of action once he's gotten started. Stephen Lang plays an evil old Soviet soldier who's a real bastard.

    final word: Good sequel in the full violent, bloody spirit of the first movie.

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