The seemingly indestructible action hero has been a staple for decades but reached it peak with 2022’s Sisu (Finnish guff about raging fury when all hope is lost……or something). Aatami (Jorma Tommila) a grizzled WWII soldier saw off wave upon wave of Nazi’s in that first film regardless of how badly injured he was , no matter what the odds were, regardless of how hopeless his situation was he laid waste to every obstacle put in front of him. And now that tradition continues but here it’s the turn of the Russian soldiers to be on the receiving end on the Road to Revenge of the title
Picking up in 1946 Aatami has returned to the Finnish/ Soviet border where his log cabin home is and where his wife and child lived. But both are now dead at the hands of a lunatic Soviet soldier Igor Draganov (Stephen Lang) who killed them and many others using a shovel so as to save bullets. In retaliation Aatami singlehandedly (and understandably, laid waste to 300 Russian soldiers. However Draganov is now in a Russian prison but is given a chance of freedom if he can kill Aatami.
Daving dismantled his cabin and piled them on the back of his truck Aatami is fuelled with resentment as he travels with his dog looking for somewhere new to live – a kind of WWII version of Prince Andrew & Fergie leaving Windsor castle. What follows is a kind of Mad Max 2 / Fury Road but even more brutal with Aatami fighting off bikers, aircraft and an absolute bloodbath on a train.
Like the first film, Road to Revenge is spilt into chapters (Home, Old Enemies, Motor Mayhem, Incoming, Long Shot and of course Revenge). Inevitably with so much carnage Aatami quickly becomes a mass of scar tissue yet remains silent throughout letting his astonishingly brutal tactics do the talking. The set pieces are peak madness making Sisu Road to Revenge deliriously demented and possibly the years most enjoyable actioner. More please.
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Here’s the Sisu Road to Revenge trailer….
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