Sisu: Road to Revenge

### The movie is exactly what you would expect from Sisu 2: - a good balance between possible to survive and plot armor, - total unpredictability while being able to tell exactly what is going to happen in a minute's time, - a piece of art hilarious in its absurd, - a western in Finland. 10/10, can't recommend enough

Ridiculously over-the-top. Insultingly impossible action. Glorious. Look past all of the insane levels of destruction and carnage and you will see the special heart of this story. A man is going to take his family home. It's that simple. Along the way he encounters some.... hurdles that need to be jumped. So he jumps them. Fantastic experience.

CinemaSerf

December 11, 2025

7/10

I must admit that I’d entirely forgotten about “Sisu” (2022) until I sat down to watch this, and then it all came flooding back. Maybe that is because this isn’t so very different. He (Jorma Tommila) has returned from his native Finland to his former home in what is now Soviet occupied Karelia to collect it. Yep, he is going to dismantle the wooden home he built for his murdered family and relocate it across the border. The Soviets still remember the carnage he caused last time around, and so re…

"Sisu: Road to Revenge" is a polished case of "style over substance" with a predictable, anti-Russian message. All the trappings are there. Excellent sets, spectacular cinamatography, at times entertaining, if over the top action and capable acting, from the cast. What's missing is anything that truly looks like a intelligently rendered back story. What made the first "Rambo" film work so well, putting the intense action aside for a moment, was a truly heartfelt back story, with a character,…

About as good as the last one. I think a bit tighter. Can we kill the old man fighting genre? Dude’s cool and all but there’s a lot of old dudes fighting. Too much old dudes fighting and planes maintaining altitude while sideways. Spoilers. Dude should have let the dog cross the border without the tank. Like if they let the dog go anyway, could have saved it some grief. It was not adequately prepared for the tank.

Our intro is met with a heavy realization that just because the war was over, it didn't help the natives of the lands that were once occupied by the German, as the Russian decided they needed some of the land they re-aquired through the war. The scene is tense upon the start, and appears to be filled with regret and a Hate brought on by the Ravages of War. The Wicked have set the game in motion and our Sisu is in Rare Form dealing our the Justice required upon these Demons in Human Skin. …

Sierbahnn

May 27, 2026

7/10

Rambo II - this time it's logistical! As the first Sisu-movie, this is just Rambo, but Finnish. This time the antagonist is not a Nazi but a Soviet, and the kills are a lot more over the top than in the last one. Some things are more ludicrous than the last movie, and if that bothers you then you are at the wrong movie. The protagonist has no lines worth mentioning, and unlike the last one when he had some badass backup to tell his story, it becomes far more "showing, not telling". The endin…