Sisu (2022)
May 6, 2023 12:40 PM - Subscribe

[TRAILER] In the waning days of WWII, an aging gold miner (Jorma Tommila) in Finnish Lapland finds a rich vein and heads home to cash in. A Nazi patrol decides they should kill him and take his gold. This is an extremely bad decision.

Also starring Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo.

A Finnish/English co-production in English. Written and directed by Jamari Helander (Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale).

94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Now playing in theaters. JustWatch listing.
posted by DirtyOldTown (15 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
If you enjoy bloody, pitiless Nazi killing... this is the feel-good movie of the year!

This was fantastic! Helander cribs a few style tricks from how Tarantino approaches historical fiction, rolls out the bloodier, nastier John Wick-ian version of They fucked with the wrong person, has a blast with spaghetti Western-isms, and positively does not skimp on the bloody carnage.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:41 PM on May 6, 2023 [5 favorites]


Also, mild spoiler but for pet lovers concerned after the trailer, neither the dog in the trailer nor any other dog is harmed during this film.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:18 PM on May 6, 2023 [11 favorites]


Although come to think of it, a horse has an extremely bad day.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 2:12 PM on May 6, 2023 [3 favorites]


neither the dog in the trailer nor any other dog is harmed during this film.

They literally ran supplementary ads to make this point after the reaction to the original trailer.
posted by praemunire at 4:45 PM on May 6, 2023 [3 favorites]


I am looking forward to this.
posted by biffa at 1:27 PM on May 7, 2023


praemunire, that cracked me up, and yeah, here's the official "Don't worry, the dog lives" ad on Facebook, which first quotes folks on social media posting "it's not ok to kill off dogs!" and "if the dog dies I'm not going to watch it!", then reassures everyone. And the current trailer now edits out the part where the Nazi says "shoot the dog," just leaving in our hero telling the dog to run. Funny little episode.

(sadly, the comments do confirm "They will definitely not be making a promo like that for the horse.")
posted by mediareport at 2:56 PM on May 7, 2023 [3 favorites]


I had a ball with this one (though I could have used a lot more Mimosa Willamo).
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:41 PM on May 7, 2023 [2 favorites]


Now that we're further down the page and even the informal, nonbinding we-could-do-spoilers-but-let's-be-cool-at-the-top-of-the-page thing has passed, let me just say that there is an AH-MAY-ZING sequence where our guy is riding on a horse that steps on a landmine and the hero gets thrown into the air and lands in a pile of exploded horse and they do not cut away or chicken out, they show the whole thing and it's gruesome but impressive as all hell.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:25 PM on May 7, 2023 [2 favorites]


I’m looking forward to seeing it, and I wish I could find the tweet, but I remember when the trailer dropped someone pointing out that it was “objectively the funniest possible option” to make a WW2 film’s Nazi-killing protagonist a Finn, suggesting the line “It’s not that I disagree with these people on any political grounds particularly, it’s just that I really love killing.”
posted by MarchHare at 5:35 AM on May 8, 2023 [2 favorites]


So I know that 2 doesn't make a trend, but between this and Mrs Davis, the number of exploding horses in media has gone from 0 per year (of media that I consume), to... Not zero.
posted by Acari at 7:22 AM on May 8, 2023 [1 favorite]


It sounds like this is set after the Finns signed a treaty with the Allies and fought to expel the Germans in the last year of the war...I think?
posted by praemunire at 7:36 AM on May 8, 2023


I wish they hadn't gome so comic book with a large number of the action scenes. With just the slightest change of tone this could have been a truly great movie. I enjoyec it but unfortunately, found it instantly forgettable.
posted by hoodrich at 8:43 AM on May 8, 2023


the number of exploding horses in media has gone from 0 per year (of media that I consume), to... Not zero.

Every year has a theme. Last year’s was Irish cottages burning, this year it’s exploding horses.
posted by Grangousier at 11:21 AM on May 8, 2023 [3 favorites]


The plane boarding broke my suspension of disbelief and it took a few minutes to get back into the movie, but aside from that I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the ratio of Nazis shown dying to Nazis shown not dying (esp. in comparison to, say, Dead Snow).
posted by johnofjack at 11:09 AM on July 29, 2023


Every year has a theme. Last year’s was Irish cottages burning, this year it’s exploding horses.

Last year was also donkeys dying (and Banshees had both!). Bad decade for equines.
posted by fleacircus at 9:49 PM on September 18, 2023


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