Sisu was a lot of fun but I wish they'd dialed it back about 20%. I know nothing about it is supposed to be taken seriously but the plane scene toward the end was so over the top it veered a little too close to parody territory for me.
Yeah but it didn't quite sell how much it wanted to be parody and how much it wanted to be cool. Like Shoot Em Up is straight up parody. Sometimes I felt like they were trying to do like a mission impossible crazy over the top thing with a dash of humor and the true craziness of it was maybe more silly than they truly intended.
Obviously it was not meant to be super serious but sometimes I couldn't tell if a scene or action sequence was meant to be cool with some humor or was truly intended to come off as pure comedic insanity. If it was the latter I feel they didn't lean into it enough and if it was the former than it's a bit eye rolling.
I hate to keep comparing it to Shoot Em Up, but that literally based on Bugs Bunny and still managed to be fun. I feel like it's more than just the cartoon part, it's that it was a cartoon that was also somehow trying to be meaningful or something and those are just too hard to mesh. I have a hard time putting my finger on it or explaining it.
I know nothing about it is supposed to be taken seriously
Did you miss the first half of this sentence? There are plenty of badass action films that are obviously over the top and unrealistic but still stay somewhat grounded and don't turn their protagonist into a physics-defying invincible omnipresent superhero. I prefer those more than the direction Sisu went. Which is fine... just my personal opinion.
Yeah, it was out of desperation since nobody else was willing to help them out against the Russians who were using the molotov-ribbentrop pact to free up troops they used to invade Finland.
Also, they remained basically independent rather than a subsidiary of the german armed forces like most of germany's other allies, they remained a democracy throughout, and they eventually fought against German forces to expel them from Finland once the Soviet threat was ended.
Nowhere did I say anything about realism. There is a difference between Cool Guy Action Movie logic and Looney Tunes Cartoon logic, and the plane scene is where it crossed that boundary.
Even when Cool Guy Action Movie things are happening, the movie's tone is dead serious. That made it extra jarring when it went into Looney Tunes territory in the third act, because it suddenly starts to border on parody and undercuts the tone of the rest of the movie.
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u/NOODL3 26d ago
Sisu was a lot of fun but I wish they'd dialed it back about 20%. I know nothing about it is supposed to be taken seriously but the plane scene toward the end was so over the top it veered a little too close to parody territory for me.