Deborah Ross

I may never recover: Sisu reviewed

This hyper-violent second world war Finnish exploitation film is clever in a simplistic, empty way

Grizzled, grimy, dirt-etched Jorma Tommila as one-man army Aatami in Sisu. Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing  
issue 27 May 2023

When I went into the Sisu screening I knew only that it was a Finnish film, so was expecting an arthouse drama, maybe featuring bearded men in nice fisherman knits and herrings being salted, rather than this hyper-violent, viciously bloody exploitation flick from which I may never recover. It is a swift 90 minutes and will please those who desire this experience, and it is clever in its simplistic, empty way.

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