Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)

Sisu meets Mad Max: Fury Road. The one-man army is back and this time they send a Soviet officer (Stephen Lang) to finish him off. It's more of the same, but somehow I appreciated the theatrics a lot more, especially one such sequence on a train that kept building. It's completely stylish, over the top and bonkers.

3 pickaxes out of 5

Sisu (2022)

Deep within the Finnish Lapland, an old prospector strikes upon gold, but the Nazis try to steal it from him and the tough old coot won't go down without a fight. It's a largely wordless action flick with all the fat cut out of it. Basically, revenge distilled to raw, primal violence. It's rather repetitive in its string of brutal slaughter, but one never tires of seeing baddies get their just desserts.

2½ land mines out of 5