"Sisu" is an ultra-violent Finnish action flic set during the closing days of WW2 in which grizzled old warrior Jorma Tommila slaughters hordes of Nazis as he tries to hold onto the gold he has found. Dialogue is kept to a bare minimum, (Tommila doesn't speak until the last minute, literally); blood and spilled guts are the order of the day and if it's about as nonsensical as any of the John Wick movies at least it's terrifically well done like an X-rated Roadrunner cartoon brought to gory life.
Whether director Jalmari Helander could handle a rom-com is another matter but with this kind of thing there are probably very few who can touch him. You might even say this is a brilliant example of its kind though I'm amazed that something this violent got away with a 15 certificate while "Poor Things" was slapped with an 18 certificate because of the sex scenes. Go figure.
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