WWII is over, and Aatami returns home, now occupied by the USSR, only to be hunted down by the same man who slaughtered his family.
Bloody and gory, but lacking its predecessor’s panache. And there is a reason for it. Three years ago, writer/director Jalmari Helander made Sisu (2022): https://kaygazpro.com/sisu-2022/, a visceral action with dark comedic elements. This year, he wrote and directed the sequel, turning it into a comedy with parodic elements. The funny impossibilities of the first film now turn into a big laugh for the audience. They are amplified to the extreme, to the point that one cannot help but feel the filmmakers parody Chuck Norris.
I’m afraid the negatives overshadow the excellent photography and editing, as the script goes over the top with every sequence. Confronting Yeagor (Stephen Lang), the man who slaughtered his family, is the best villain for Aatami (Jorma Tommila), but the things you see from beginning to end will only make you laugh rather than get you excited or hyped. Needless to say, the gimmicks are endless, the background characters are always incompetent, and the laws of physics are nonexistent.
But hey, as I like to say, you will forget all your troubles, even if only for an hour and a half.
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