'Sisu: Road To Revenge' A Review

Sisu: Road To Revenge is a period action movie, a sequel to 2022's Sisu. After WWII Finland has ceded parts of it's country to the Soviet Union as part of the peace treaty. Aatami(Jorma Tommila) our hero, sets off to retrieve his house, log by log, and bring it back into Finland. Igor(Stephen Lang) is tasked with making sure he never gets back across the boarder. Bodies pile up.

Tommila brings his same enigmatic charm but this time, in a moment or two, he's extremely emotional. It really works and it's an interesting balance. Lang, as always, is a mustache twirling delight. The guy is one of the best heavy's working and at 73 it's nice to see him still at it. The rest of the cast are mostly just cannon fodder. There was little dialogue and plot in the original and there is even less here, with a streamlined story and cast that focuses on the action.

As to the action it's great, thrilling, gory, frequently funny. That's where the focus seems to have gone in the sequel, on the action set pieces, and it shows. Tommila is just as proficient and unstoppable and it's a lot of fun. The choreography, the stunt work, the intricacy of it all work together to give it that tactile feel that many modern films lack. The only fault is that it's a sequel, it can't, by definition, come out of left field and be the lovely surprise that the original was so may be destined to fall short of it's predecessor.

An old school action thriller that delivers.

Currently in theaters.

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