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Sisu

2022

Jalmari Helander

Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onni Tommila ...

6.3

5,925

War. Western. Adventure. Action When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Its outre fun is accentuated by all the first-class design contributors, from Kjell Lagerroos’ very handsome photography and Juho Virolainen’s razor-sharp editing to the range of viscerally impressive stunt and FX work"	POS
United Kingdom	Nikki Baughan Screendaily	"What it lacks in historical or narrative nuance, it more than makes up for in outlandish, gory action."	POS
United States	Simon Abrams The Wrap	"Helander doesn’t really develop his post-post-modern pastiche beyond its basic high-concept premise, so 'Sisu' never becomes more than an energetically realized live-action cartoon."	NEU
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"'Sisu' feels like a gritty actioner of yesteryear but with a modern sense of style. Helander manages to keep progressing this bloody battle in surprising ways. (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Erin Brady SlashFilm	"[It] knows exactly what it is and what it wants to do — and it does it well (...) If you're looking for mindless fun that harkens back to the days of Nazispolitation, Helander's got just the right film for you"	POS
Canada	Kurt Halfyard Screen Anarchy	"[It] is a far way from re-inventing the wheel here. It is a cavacade of the familiar, and a bit of a simple, mostly harmless, nuke-the-fridge kind of fun -- I mean, who is against killing Nazis"	NEU
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"[It] is a gory, often disgusting, and ridiculous action film that revels in its absurdity (...) It is certainly ridiculous, but sometimes it's just fun to watch an obscene amount of Nazis get what's coming to them"	POS
United States	Meg Shields Film School Rejects	"Relentlessly brutal and unexpectedly hilarious, 'Sisu' is a hoot, a holler, and the most fun you can have watching Nazis get absolutely destroyed by a gold-hunting ex-military grandpa"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'Sisu' gets a bit repetitive and arguably lacks much to offer beyond its gore, but it works on its own B-movie terms"	NEU
United States	Matt Donato IGN	"Jalmari Helander proves that killing Nazis never goes out of style – as long as you're willing to hit as hard as 'Sisu'"	POS
Canada	Brandon Zachary CBR	"A brutal action film that knows exactly what it is, melding gory violence with some genuinely impressive choreography"	POS
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"A new very gory war movie with lots of action and extremely brutal scenes (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"While watching a bunch of Nazis get offed in a variety of grisly ways offers some midnight movie thrills, the stakes only get lower and lower (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Fun and gory riff on 'Fury Road'"	POS
United Kingdom	Alex Godfrey Empire	"This is a film about one mad bastard killing a gazillion Nazis. It’s almost impossible not to love it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Andrew Crump The Playlist	"'Sisu' communicates the basics without glossing over the record, and best of all without taking up time better spent liquifying bad guys"	POS
Canada	Patrice Witherspoon Screen Rant	"Epic & inspirational (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Epic, high-octane bloodbath (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"Grisly feast of extravagant violence (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Pete Volk Polygon	"[It] is stuck between two tones without fully committing to either, promising more than it ultimately delivers"	NEG
United States	Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"[It] is also outlandishly entertaining (...) The film holds the kind of dumb, action beats and inventive kills, hokey yet fun dialogue that Hollywood used to be so good at producing (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"It may have benefited from a quickened pace, or touches of humor, or heightened stakes because — at least in this film — watching Nazis get theirs is a vein of amusement that runs dry"	NEG
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"The important thing is that Nazis end up dead. And splattered. And decapitated. And every time, it only gets funnier (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"'Sisu' is the bloody, nazi-killing movie you need to see"	POS
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"[It] is bloody, brutal, and absolutely awesome"	POS
	Júlia Olmo Cineuropa	"A journey where the director manages to maintain and intensify the determination and strength from the beginning, to create a film of great powerful visuals, as deft in its approach as it is enthralling and bizarre"	POS

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