‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ Filmmaker Jalmari Helander on Potential Trilogy and Wanting to Make Stallone Proud With Rambo Prequel

‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ Filmmaker Jalmari Helander on Potential Trilogy and Wanting to Make Stallone Proud With Rambo Prequel

Sisu: Road to Revenge's Jalmari Helander talks the sequel idea that he abandoned (for one key reason), and looks ahead to helming 'John Rambo.

The masochistic violence of Sisu: Road to Revenge

Jalmari Helander’s new film opens a new frontier

'Sisu: Road to Revenge' Review - Explosive Action Sequel is a Huge Improvement

The original Sisu, written and directed by Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale), was a pleasant surprise for critics and audiences alike upon its 2022 debut. The story of legendary Finnish Army commando-turned-gold prospector Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila) coming to blows with the last vestiges of Nazis occupying Finland played out like a European [...] The post ‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ Review – Explosive Action Sequel is a Huge Improv…

‘Sisu: Road to Revenge’ movie review: Road Warrior meets Road Runner in blood-soaked sequel

NOW STREAMING ON: An elite Finnish soldier who refuses to die attempts to transport the remains of his family’s home from Soviet-seized Karelia in Sisu: Road to Revenge, an explosive, over-the-top sequel to the 2022 breakout hit which premiered at Fantastic Fest and opens in Prague and cinemas worldwide this weekend. This live-action cartoon turns up the dial to 11 and outdoes its predecessor in the process, resulting in some of the best scenes…

Sisu: Road to Revenge - Review: Less Plot, More Apocalypse

Finnish John Wick is back (he even has a dog), and this time he's swapping out Nazis for the Soviet army that murdered his family. Look — if you've seen the first Sisu, you know what to expect in Sisu: Road to Revenge. But, this time, the film has been pared down. Not that the first film, which was essentially a play on Clint Eastwood's The Man With No Name, had much going for it in the way of plot. But the sequel even takes away the allure of g…

Movie Review – Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Movie Review – Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Sisu: Road to Revenge, 2025. Written and Directed by Jalmari Helander. Starring Jorma Tommila, Richard Brake, and Stephen Lang. SYNOPSIS: A man returns to dismantle his family’s house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a Red Army commander, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins. Early in […] Read t…