By Dionisio Neto
SISU: Road to Revenge continues Aatami’s story, once again portrayed by Finnish actor Jorma Tommila.
If you don’t recall the 2022 first film, Aatami was living as a gold miner near the end of WWII until he crossed paths with the Nazis, and everything became explosive (literally). Now, years later, Aatami faces Igor Draganov (Stephen Lang from Avatar), the man responsible for killing his family long ago and who has now returned to finish the job, mostly because the higher ranked German officers think he is the only one who can manage to kill Aatami, the Immortal.
The plot for this sequel is simple: “kill or be killed”. After all, Aatami is going back home but, since he is still alive ,the German’s cannot accept it. So, they asked the only man they thought could finish the job to chase him down, knowing that the only reason he did what he did before was because they decided to take his gold. But now, they want to take his life.
Director Jalmari Helander returns with his signature style behind the camera, even with the cinematography lacking the visual richness of the previous film, but also with a lazy script in hands, that didn’t even bother to give some lines to Jorma.
We were presented here with an unnecessary sequel because, even if you bought Aatami’s journey in the first movie and forgave one or two unrealistic moments due to the well done result and beautiful cinematography, here you can’t enjoy it since about 90% of it is unrealistic, pure gore, and low entertainment aside a couple of nice scenes.
Road to Revenge isn’t even a B-movie, and I’m sure it exists only because of its previous success. I might say this sequel is a pure waste of almost everyone’s time and, even with a few solid action scenes, the outrageous moments will leave you laughing for all the wrong reasons. They went far beyond the lies in the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise and here we are talking about a period World War movie, not a 21st Century technological world where you can buy some pyrotechnics and say it was ok.
As mentioned at beginning of both movies, “Sisu” is a Finnish word with no direct translation; it represents courage and unimaginable determination. However, here, the determination from the studio behind the movie is to try and make more money. Honestly, I hope they don’t get it either because we don’t deserve a third movie as we didn’t need a sequel at all.
Sisu: Road to Revenge is available in theatres on Friday, November 21st, 2025.
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