It was in September 1944, in the waning months of World War II, that Finland signed an armistice, expunging German Nazi forces from its territory. Amid the scorched-earth retreat of the Germans, and the devastation it wrought on Finnish towns and villages, Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander situates his latest film, Sisu.
Seeking solace from the war, Aatami has retreated into the Finnish wilderness, where he scours the soil for gold deposits. The film wastes little time divulging superfluous lore about its main character. Instead, it offers fleeting vignettes into his past: his muscular frame, a testament of sinew and strength, is a canvas festooned with battle scars that evoke injuries that would have been fatal to lesser men.
Like titular roles in films such as John Wick or The Equalizer, Aatami comes across as a disheveled, innocuous drifter minding his own business. It isn’t until a Nazi officer accosts him and tries robbing him of his gold that Aatami, as the trope goes, reverts to his old ways of violence, unleashing a wave of gore-filled, satisfyingly brutal retribution.
Though the film frequently fiddles with dark comedy, as the Nazis begin to tremble upon realizing that the landmines surrounding them are the least of their worries, Sisu shows its true colors as a war movie foremost.
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