Sisu: Road To Revenge follows directly on from 2022’s Sisu, which I missed at the time and only got round to checking it out the night before watching the new one.
In the first, former soldier Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila – Big Game) chanced upon a stack of gold in the Lapland wilderness, but on the way home, the Nazis got in the way, led by Bruno (Aksel Hennie – The Martian), resulting in a relentless, gory battle which left me surprised it was only a 15-cert!
This time round, Korpi comes home. It’s 1946, and he plans to dismantle the family home and move it elsewhere, where he can live out his life in peace and quiet… but not just yet.
And as for the title, the film states it’s not easily translated into English, but that it’s a “white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds”.
Red Army Commander Yeagor Dragunov (Stephen Lang – Avatar: The Way Of Water IMAX 3D) is currently doing a long prison sentence for his Nazi crimes, and while many of them are in prison for murdering wife and children, he’s the nastiest of the lot, having also done this to Korpi’s family, which he describes in disgustingly graphic terms.
However, a KGB Officer (Richard Brake – The Strangers Chapter 2) releases him with the promise that if he kills our hero – now deemed a legend, after reportedly killing 300 members of the Red Army – Dragunov will be freed and rewarded handsomely.
An early confrontation sees Korpi let the evil one live – which you just know is going to be a bad idea, given that he’ll pursue him – but then if he had killed him at that point, the film would end rather abruptly!
As with the first film, Sisu: Road To Revenge is split into a number of chapters, despite also being around 90 minutes in length, and also has brilliantly inventive stunts, such as a Nazi pilot trying to kill Korpi (driving his truck) by aiming his plane directly at the truck, then ejecting at the last minute. Korpi slams on the brakes, causing some of the house logs to break free of their shackles atop the vehicle, landing on the ground in front to form a makeshift ramp… which causes the plane to fly back up into the air and tailspin down the ground and crash behind him, thus sparing his life.
Now, apply such excellence to many other stunts, and it’s no surprise that following watching this at 5pm last Sunday, and then suffering Wicked For Good straight after that, given that Sisu: Road To Revenge was showing again at 9.30pm, I went back in for a second viewing of the day!
Just one problem, writer/director Jalmari Helander (who also directed Big Game with Tommila) states that Korpi’s whole story is now told, meaning no third film to round off the trilogy… Oh, I’m sure you can find a reason! WE NEED MORE!!!
Or, just get Mr Helander to direct the next James Bond film. This is the kind of action that the franchise has been missing for a LONG time!
Additionally, it’s quite something to see the two leads of a cast being a 66-year-old and a 73-year-old trading punches and blows
Sisu: Road To Revenge is in cinemas now, and is available to buy on 4K Blu-ray, 2-film 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD.
NOTE: There’s no mid- nor post-credits scenes.
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 89 minutes
Release date: November 21st 2025
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
Cinema: Odeon Trafford Centre
Rating: 9/10
Director: Jalmari Helander
Producers: Mike Goodridge
Screenplay: Jalmari Helander
Music: Juri Seppä, Tuomas Wäinölä
Cast:
Aatami Korpi: Jorma Tommila
Yeagor Dragunov: Stephen Lang
KGB Officer: Richard Brake
Finnish Man: Tommi Korpela
Pilot: Kaspar Velberg
Militsioner: Pääru Oja
Mercenary: Erki Laur
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