Big mistake.
Styled as a western in narrative and iconography, Sisu is a straightforward underdog action movie.
Jorma Tommila’s Aatami is your unstoppable hero, with a deadly skillset and superhuman will to survive.
The villains are a company of bandits, killing anyone who gets in their way for the hell of it.
There is nothing to Sisu.
This is not a historical movie - it is not interested in digging into Finland's involvement with the Axis. This is a movie about cutting a man’s throat and sucking on his exposed airpipe to grab a mouthful of air while you hide underwater from machine gunners on the surface.
It is what it is - and it does what it does without wasting time.
Packed with gore and a deadpan sense of humour, it is a solid little genre flick.
Its familiarity is meant as a feature, not a bug - but I did find its familiarity, and simplicity, a little tired after a while.
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