SISU: Road to Revenge

“Unleash hell.”

Bloody, brutal and ballistic, SISU: Road to Revenge abandons physics and logic for complete chaotic carnage in visceral and violent vengeful venture that revels in its ridiculousness to entertainingly rewarding results. 

Discussion Points:

I’ve never been prouder to be a Fin. Having only just watched the first SISU film, I went into this an eager new fan of the series and excited to see how Aatami would handle the next onslaught of agony coming his way. And SISU: Road to Revenge is bigger, badder and bloodier in every way! As Aatami attempts to relocate his family home from Soviet-occupied Karelia - the last vestige of his past he comes into conflict with Stephen Lang as Igor Draganov - a savage Soviet hellbent on Aatami’s demise. Watching Jorma Tommila and Lang go toe-to-toe is intense in a film that has very very little care for legitimate logic or practical physics. This is a movie where a tank does an explosive-assisted front flip and a train carriage is rocket propelled down the tracks - and it’s freaking awesome! It’s a blood-spattered, action-packed, adrenaline-pumping, emotionally-unforgiving experience. And Aatami may actually be immortal - because he survives punishment after punishment but comes back stronger and scarier each time. Fuelled by powerful rage and careful clever thinking - his kills are both perfectly measured and excessively effective. If you can overlook the exorbitant and blatant disregard for grounded combat and settle into the silly stylistic overindulgent chaos - then you can expect an entertainingly elevated good time.