SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE

Name: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE
Item: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE
Author: Review

"Bloody Revenge Against Evil Soviet Commies"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is a violent action movie. In 1946, thousands of Finns had to leave when the Soviets annexed part of eastern Finland. A middle-aged farmer named Korpi crosses the border to visit his family’s house. He dismantles the home and starts hauling the lumber back to Finland. However, the Soviet commander, Igor Dragonov, who murdered Korpi’s wife and two sons during the war, is ordered to take some troops and kill Korpi. That’s easier said than done, however, as a brutal battle of wills commences.

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is a rousing, patriotic, anti-communist movie with lots of action. Several of the stunts are jaw-dropping and lots of fun. However, the violence is very bloody, with bad guys losing their heads or body parts. Also, at one point, the Soviets whip Kori’s back with hot irons, resulting in long bloody gashes. Of course, Korpi always gets the last word. SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE also has some strong foul language, including several “f” words. Though the subtitle mentions revenge, the good guy’s destruction of the villain is also an act of justice.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral worldview with very strong patriotic, anti-communist, but the movie’s moral elements are marred by intense revenge, though the hero also achieves a measure of justice;

Foul Language:

Eight or nine obscenities (including six or seven “f” words);

Violence:

Lots of very strong and strong bloody violence includes extreme gunfight battle in the third act between one man and many soldiers, point blank shootouts, planes strafe running truck, stunts with a plane and a tank, driver of truck fights soldiers climbing on truck and throws two of them off, it’s implied that a motorcyclist with a helmet is decapitated, and the head in the helmet rolls on the road behind the speeding truck, lots of blood splattering from gunshots, hero has pet dog with him, and the dog’s in peril but unharmed, man and dog fall into ocean with truck loaded with lumber in an intense scene, but they eventually make it to the surface, man is whipped with hot irons and has large bloody gashes on his back, man falls on broken glass, man’s hand hits a mousetrap, large explosion, burnt corpses, barefoot hero must walk on broken glass, brutal fistfight between hero and villain, villain hits hero in head with a shovel, and villain tells hero he killed his wife and two sons and then chopped up their bodies with a shovel;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

Upper male nudity when man is tortured by whips with hot irons;

Alcohol Use:

Some alcohol use as Soviets celebrate and a sleeping man is holding a bottle of alcohol that drops and breaks;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Some smoking but no drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Revenge and villain taunts hero about murdering hero’s family.

More Detail:

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is a violent action movie about a Finnish farmer in 1946 who must fight the Soviet communist army, led by the brutal man who murdered his family, to go back to his country after the Soviets annexed the part of eastern Finland where the farmer used to live with his wife and two sons. SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is a rousing, patriotic, anti-communist movie with lots of action, but the movie has excessive bloody violence and some strong foul language.

The movie opens with the announcement that the Soviet Union, led by the evil Communist tyrant Joseph Stalin, annexed part of Finland’s Eastern border in 1946. Thousands of Finns had to leave. However, one farmer, Aatami Korpi, whose wife and two sons were murdered by Soviet troops during the war, crosses the new border to visit the farm where he lived. Korpi lovingly says goodbye to the farmhouse’s interior and pockets a family photo. He then dismantles the house to haul the lumber to the new Finland.

Meanwhile, somewhere in a Siberian gulag, a government official visits Igor Dragonov, the man who murdered Korpi’s family, is ordered to take some men and track down and kill Korpi. He will be well rewarded, the official promises. The Soviets and Dragonov want to make an example of Korpi since he killed 300 soldiers who were under Dragonov’s command.

Cut to Korpi using a truck to haul the umber across the border to Finland. Dragonov shows up with a few men. Korpi kills three of the men, then resumes driving the truck while Dragonov follows in an armored vehicle. Four soldiers on motorcycles show up and try to take down Korpi, bit he dispatches three of them.

So, Dragonov sends two planes after Korpi. The chances of Korpi escaping back to Finland would seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer. However, Korpi has many tricks up his sleeve. After all, they don’t call him the “The Immortal” for nothing.

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is a rousing, patriotic, anti-communist movie with lots of action. Several of the stunts are jaw-dropping and lots of fun. A stunt involving a tank is pretty incredible. However, most of the violence is very bloody, with bad guys losing their heads or losing body parts. Also, at one point, the Soviets whip Kori’s back with hot irons, resulting in big bloody gashes on Korpi’s body. Of course, Korpi always gets the last word.

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE also has some strong foul language, including several “f” words. However, it’s the movie’s bloody violence that’s really excessive. Though the subtitle mentions revenge, the good guy’s triumph over the villain is also an act of justice.

The movie explains that the word “sisu” is an untranslatable Finnish word that means extreme courage and determination, especially when all hope is lost.

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