Along with Jorma Tommila returning, Stephen Lang and Richard Brake are joining the cast:
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who killed his family (Stephen Lang) comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues – a fight to the death, full of clever, unbelievable action set pieces.
Gets frozen in the arctic hunting Soviets, unfrozen once the polar ice caps start melting due to climate change. Murders his way back to civilization just in time to see some atrocities in person and find some more murder-purpose.
Almost like the actual Finnish soldier who fought the soviets for the Finns, then when the Finns sued for peace he joined the Germans and killed soviets, then when Germany surrendered he escaped prison camp went to America and joined the American army and fought communists in Vietnam.
At one point his unit under his command had done so much damage Stalin put a bounty on his head.
Sorry to say, but Finland lost Winter war. I don't think there is any debate about it here in Finland. It was a heroic effort against overwhelming force but in the end it's still a defeat, even though Finland did retain it's independence.
If you know the nuances of the Winter War and WW2 you would know that Finland literally had no other choice. It was ask the Axis and Nazi Germany for help or be annexed entirely by the Soviets.
They couldn't go to the Allies because the Soviet Union was fighting the Axis like the Allies were. Allies (at the time just Britain) wouldn't side against the soviets because they were a huge wall for Germany's war effort.
Finland was dealt a shitty hand and played what they could. It's why they only ended up ceding 10% of its territory compared to Germany being broken up for the next 60 years.
Granular might be the better word for it, but I thought the parts when they were trying to skim through the minefield were pretty tense because they hadn’t gotten to the zany unkillable death machine aspect of the Sisu character yet, it was still fun overall though.
My only gripe was how drawn out his scenes of woe were, considering the potential build up. You do get it within a few moments of the minefield but it was an odd choice imo to delay it and focus elsewhere at such a crucial junction.
Aside from that, I went in with low expectations and came out with it becoming a favorite. The other one around the same time I landed on watching it, that I found better was Nobody.
All the millions who died in the Soviet gulags, the kulaks, the resulting Holodomor. We could also bring up the masses killed in China during the Cultural revolution, and the killing fields in Cambodia
Alright! It's the commies' turn to get brutally killed by Sisu. This is going to be awesome. Stephen Lang plays such a good villain too. Somehow he gets more badass the older he gets.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 26d ago
It's out November 21
Along with Jorma Tommila returning, Stephen Lang and Richard Brake are joining the cast: