{"id":39627,"date":"2023-04-28T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39627"},"modified":"2023-04-28T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T22:21:18","slug":"sisu-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/28\/sisu-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisu (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director Jalmari Helander\u2019s \u201cSisu\u201d is a bat shit insane action movie in a year filled with some pretty good action entries. It\u2019s like Indiana Jones and The Punisher were mashed together with a hint of Jason Voorhees, and out came \u201cSisu.\u201d It\u2019s a Nazi killing, dismembering, mutilating, head stabbing, revenge saga that manages to competently take its paper thin premise and produces an absolutely gore soaked homage to exploitation action films of the seventies and eighties.<\/p>\n

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During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland.\u00a0\u00a0When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner.\u00a0Desperate to hold on to his claim to fortune, the ex-soldier known as Aatami becomes a one man army, slaughtering countless Nazi soldiers behind enemy lines in an effort to re-claim his treasure once and for all.<\/p>\n

\u201cSisu\u201d really is a dynamite and wonderful action experience from beginning to end. The movie revolves around Jorma Tommila\u2019s mostly silent, stoic protagonist Aatami, an ex-soldier haunted by his past who has obviously decided against ever seeing blood shed ever again. But like most great big screen revenge tales, the violence just comes knocking down his door. Director Helander manages to produce such a grimy, dirty, bloody action film, where Tommila\u2019s character Aatami is put through hell and back. Watching his character do everything to get to his gold reaches new heights of insanity, as he thinks on his toes at every turn, and never spares a single Nazi solder in his wake.<\/p>\n

Although there is a considerable suspension of disbelief required, \u201cSisu\u201d never betrays the audience with an overpowered protagonist. Aatami is punished as much as anyone else, but he always finds new ways to bounce back, in the end. \u201cSisu\u201d revels in upping the Nazi body count at any given chance, with Aatami dealing horrific deaths to them left and right. There are some excellent moments where he barely makes it out of a scenario by the skin of his teeth. From a sequence where he\u2019s stuck underwater, to a tense moment where he has to evade rabid dogs, his urge to survive is just insatiable.<\/p>\n

Halfway through there is a very good sub-plot involving a group of female prisoners being shipped by the Nazis for insidious purposes, but director Helander brings it all full circle in a sweet bit of poetic justice. \u201cSisu\u201d is a bang up, explosive survival action flick; it\u2019s an absolute gem that I\u2019m certain will become an instant classic.<\/p>\n

Now In Theaters Only, nationwide (1,000 plus screens). Check Local Theater Listings for More Information<\/a>.
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Director Jalmari Helander\u2019s \u201cSisu\u201d is a bat shit insane action movie in a year filled with some pretty good action entries. It\u2019s like Indiana Jones and The Punisher were mashed together with a hint of Jason Voorhees, and out came \u201cSisu.\u201d It\u2019s a Nazi killing, dismembering, mutilating, head stabbing, revenge saga that manages to competently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,367,712,840,1012,1087,1173],"class_list":["post-39627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-foreign","tag-nazis","tag-revenge","tag-survival","tag-thriller","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39629,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39627\/revisions\/39629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}