‘Sisu Is The Bloody, NaziKilling Movie You Need To See
As for the Nazis , they are: hell with these guys .
Finland began World War II fighting Soviet forces attempting to occupy the country in the "Winter War" of 1939–40. They were drafted into the Axis powers to fight alongside Hitler's army until 1944, the year of the Moscow Armistice - This treaty not only united Finnish forces with the Russians, but also launched a major campaign to unite the Nazis to expel all from the country. For those of you playing at home, it's called The Lapland War.
You really don't need to know anything when you're in Sissu, the Eurosploitation thriller that pits a man straight from the center of the occupation against a gang of German villains. The intro audio sets the scene with a history lesson from CliffsNotes; The title also explains that the title refers to a Finnish word that roughly translates to "an unimaginable form of courage and determination". All you really need to know is that at the end of World War II, this Scandinavian country produced extremely tough and battle-hardened soldiers. That and the simple sentiments expressed in the first sentence of this review. If you want to spend 90 minutes watching Nazis being shot, stabbed, maimed, blown up, crushed and beaten by various inanimate objects in the most brutal and gory way, then this war movie is the answer to your heart's content. ….
The Germans are still raging across Finland, although the end of the conflict is hardly in sight. None of this particularly applies to a Finnish prospector (Jorma Tomilo) panning for gold in the countryside - especially when his pickaxe finds something rocky and shiny deep underground and realizes he's knocked the earth out from under his mother's feet. After collecting as many coins as his backpack can hold, the man heads to the nearest town to hand in his finds. He is wise, non-verbal and almost too quiet. However, a look at the knot wounds that criss-crossed his torso and limbs suggested that he had seen enough scrapes in his time.
He soon encounters a group of Nazis led by a leader who wears a leather jacket ( The Martian Axel Henie). They let the petitioner pass unharmed, knowing he would meet another patrol on the way. Let these people take care of him, said the officer. In fact, the man meets a second group of soldiers. They thought they would shoot him and take the loot for themselves. The seeker has another idea: what if he dug out one of their skulls with a giant knife, used a few soldiers as human shields against machine gun fire, and then ran the last one clean?
Here, Sissu reveals that he's less interested in playing nice, and more interested in killing the movie's ultimate villains. The trasho mondo vibe is strong in this film, and if you're familiar with writer-director Hjalmara Helander's previous work - notably 2010's unusual Christmas horror Rare Export - you know he's not afraid of it, for go there again. And by "there" we mean that wondrous, wondrous, ball-filled, bleak territory of the secular exploits saga of yesteryear. There is a forty-year vintage maturity that permeates every tarnished collection; It owes less to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and more to the 1970s Italian epic Pasta Fight, which inspired Tarantino in the first place. (Though the use of a specific type of ITC Busorama font on the Sisu chapter title cards might look a little too familiar.)
© Courtesy of Jorma Tomella of Rolling Stone at Sesu. Well, how about a suitor? Turns out he's not just a gold digger. At the beginning of the war he was also a soldier and was considered the most feared man in his unit. Unable to control his legendary execution facility, the Finnish military simply abandoned him in the forest, allowing him to hunt first the invading Russians and then the unwanted Germans. His name is Atami Korbi, but he is better known by his nickname: Immortal. A Nazi prisoner (Mimoza Willama) tells him that he cannot be killed. "He just refuses to die."
It's an understatement, and most of Gellander's glorious battles in the war saga revolve around inflicting all kinds of physical damage on Corby (shot, hung, burned, nearly drowned, taking a bomb to the chest) and allowing this superhuman killing machine to carry out a plot to unleash the -Blowned Terminator on his enemies. All the Fuhrer's tanks and all the Fuhrer's men cannot stop this former commander from tearing them apart again. Or head mines. He either cut his throat, or drove the pickaxe into his breastbones, or tied them to a giant bomb. Since these above prisoners are implicated in the killing of Nazis, all bets are off.
Sissu goes beyond the cartoon with its extreme violence, which becomes more of an end than a means before the final villain gets his just reward. It's also so funny and almost intoxicating in its quasi-biblical anti-Nazi bloodlust that you can agree with a mood - and go back to see the creative ways the film finds to serve these narrow-minded racist degenerates for destroyed. . If on-screen carnage isn't your thing, you might want to skip the good vs. evil splatter fest. For those of us who spend a lot of time encouraging white supremacists to face the consequences of their actions and prejudices, the only question we sisters ask is this: Where were you five years ago?
