In case there was any question, that’s a compliment. Like the “John Wick” movies, it’s really one brutal set piece after another, though the choreography is not as poetic here. The violence is gory enough to make the audience squirm, and just cartoonish enough to give it permission to laugh. The two drop their guns and flee.Īino seems to have a little sisu in her, as well Willamo is compelling in brief appearances. Aatami merely looks at them, points his pickax like the Grim Reaper with his scythe and grunts. There is a great scene in which he is taking his time with one Nazi when a couple more pull up on motorcycle. Tommila plays Aatami as the strong, silent type - so silent that he doesn’t speak until there’s about a minute left in the film. He hangs with his pickax from a plane in flight. Hardly any dialog: Aatami does his talking with his pickaxĪatami is relentless. Bruno sees a path to buy his way out of postwar prosecution and so ignores orders, continuing to chase Aatami.Īs the Grail Knight says in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” he chose … poorly. It’s not for lack of trying on the part of Bruno and his henchman Wolf (Jack Doolan). He will not stop, at any cost, to get revenge. Meanwhile Aino (Mimosa Willamo), one of the captured women, explains to the Nazis who Aatami really is: a former soldier who killed 300 Russians after they murdered his family. Did you tell them he killed seven of our men, Bruno asks the radio operator? Aatami escapes, and Bruno (Aksel Hennie), the SS officer leading the Nazis, gets word from headquarters that they are not to pursue Aatami. They take some of his gold.Īnd then he kills them. They have kidnapped several young women and seem gleeful in their evil.Īt first they let Aatami pass, but eventually figure out what he has in his saddlebags. He packs it into bags and heads to civilization. Then one day he strikes gold, and lots of it.
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Party on! How to see 'Bill & Ted' one last time at Metrocenter before the Phoenix mall is demolished Here's what triggers the bloodbath in 'Sisu' He blithely ignores a squadron of fighter planes that soar overhead. As he digs fruitlessly the sounds of battle inch closer and closer. Desperate Nazis are in retreat, and burning, looting and pillaging everything in their path.Īatami is an old soldier, we learn, but has left war behind. We meet Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), for whom the word “grizzled” could have been invented, as he and his horse and dog look for gold in northern Finland. Invincibility seems to play a role, as well - maybe even immortality.
The loose meaning is white-knuckled courage in the face of overwhelming odds. Yes, the no-translation bit is often a copout to add a little artificial intrigue, but it’s not a fatal flaw here. The film begins with on-screen text telling us that “sisu” is a Finnish word for which there is no direct translation. 'Beau Is Afraid' review: Joaquin Phoenix will make you squirm in the Kafkaesque nightmare What does 'sisu' mean in English? It spills blood like it was beer at a bachelor party, but with enough of a wink and a nod to assure us that Helander isn’t taking the whole thing so seriously that we can’t laugh a little. So it is with “Sisu,” Jalmari Helander’s outrageous - and outrageously fun - film.
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Sometimes it’s rewarding to watch a challenging movie like “Beau Is Afraid,” which requires you to try to figure out what is going on from literally its first frame.Īnd sometimes it’s an absolute blast to just sit back, turn off your brain for an hour and a half and watch an old guy take out a small army of Nazis with a pickax and grim determination. View Gallery: See Jorma Tomilla in the crazy violent film 'Sisu'
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