Posted on 11/26/2025 12:52:24 PM PST by TBP
Oh, where do I even begin with Sisu: Road to Revenge? This is not merely a movie; it is a transcendent thunderclap of pure cinematic audacity. From the first frame, the film detonates onto the screen with the subtlety of a meteor strike, announcing itself as a masterpiece of gleeful excess. This is the movie that every other action film will envy for the rest of their lives.
The landscapes are so gorgeously shot they look like nature itself hired its own personal glam squad. The score doesn’t merely accompany the action; it leaps off the speakers and demands that you feel something.
And then there’s the protagonist. The legendary, unbreakable embodiment of Finnish grit returns, carrying more silence than most characters carry dialogue and more menace than most villains carry armies. But beneath the carnage lies a rousing anti-communist anthem, a tale of one man’s refusal to surrender his homeland.
Jorma Tommila’s Aatami Korpi, the unkillable commando, is less a man than a myth, a living embodiment of vengeance who dismantles his own home log by log, loads it onto a truck, and drives straight into the jaws of Soviet hell. Stephen Lang’s Igor Draganov is a snarling embodiment of Soviet cruelty, a perfect foil for Korpi’s stoic wrath.
Every glare he gives feels like it could be bottled and sold as industrial-grade solvent. Every punch lands with the force of a thunderclap. Every action scene unfolds as though gravity, physics, and common sense politely stepped aside and said, “Sir, after you.” This isn’t just storytelling — it’s mythmaking with gasoline and dynamite.
The revenge? Immaculate. The pacing? So tight it could slice granite. The final act? A symphonic explosion of catharsis..
By the time the credits rolled, I wasn’t just entertained — I was revitalized and fully convinced that if the universe ever wronged this man again, the universe would apologize immediately.
In short, if grit were art, if determination were poetry, and if vengeance were a national sport, Sisu: Road to Revenge would be its championship game. This is not a movie you watch. This is a movie that grabs you by the throat, hurls you into a truck, and drives you screaming through the gates of cinematic Valhalla.
A breakout triumph! A heart-pounding thrill ride! If you see only one movie this year make it Sisu: Road to Revenge.
★★★★★ (five stars)
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The first movie was impressive, no doubt this one will be too.
I loved the first one. A Finnish “Rambo.”
The trailer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-JLBCojWm4
The first one was fun and believable, until the airplane…
I may have got about half through it before I gave up.
If you like endless impossible action then it does deliver, but not my cup of tea.
The Critical Drinker just dropped a review and enjoyed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDiRNNYVFGk
I take it the reviewer liked the movie.
My kind of movie.
Cartoon with humans providing the image. Last of the humans doing movies. End of the charade. No one really cares.
The first movie was awesome!
I saw the first movie listed for free on either pluto or tubi the other day..
I trust TCD. He’s never steered me wrong.
This one is better. Outrageous and wonderfully entertaining start to finish.
It is not bad. The plot hangs together, the dialog is pretty much nonexistent, the music score is very good.
If you like Jason Statham movies or John Wick you will like it.
If you are a big fan of the USSR, you won't like it.
I particularly like when The Drinker is being savage. His Production Hell and Crash and Burn videos especially.
Marking.
That lets out Bernie Sandes, Zohran Mamdani, and Nick Fuentes.
Many revenge movies use Nazi’s as the villains getting killed. I went to see this movie because I wanted to see Soviets get what was coming to them . It definitely delivered on that.
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