It is inspired on a Finnish sniper called Simo Häyhä. He had over 500 confirmed kills in less than 100 days w/o using a scope. The Russians called him the White Death.
Thank You So Much For Letting Me Know About This Phenomenal Gentleman And his Amazing Skills I Just Looked Him Up .... Liked You Stated He Accomplished All of This W Out A Scope !!!
This film was such a treat to watch. I didn't watch a trailer/teaser or nothing. I loved the way the story was told with minimum dialogue. Was hooked right after the first kill.
Hello there! I'm from Finland and this Jalmari's movie is a blast! Had lot's of laughs and moments of exitement. It is A movie not to be taken seriously, 'cause all the humour aspect included. Love your channel, bro!
In his mid 80s my Finnish Grandfather had a stroke and fell off his ladder and was paralyzed.... He got better. When he passed away in his 90s... it wasn't the heart attack he had that killed him or the subsequent strokes or heart attacks he had in the ICU.... it was stomach cancer... the good lord had to call in a hit on my Isi... and I'm prety sure the Angel of Death asked God "but do we have to?"
I think it’s funny - and intentional - that although Jorma Tommila’s character (along with the females) kills all nazis, he does not kill his son Onni Tommila’s character.
The film is Finnish and tells about the word SISU, what is SISU is persistent, unrelenting willpower, perseverance, indomitability. The concept is part of Finnish national identity
As a Finnish person I think that SISU is made like a superpower in this movie, so if you survive something absurd it is just because of SISU. :D Also this was produced by the same people that made John Wick..and some say mayby he is the grandfather of Wick... 😳
Fun fact, it kinda did well, if you consider that the movie had 6 000 000 € budget. That is also considered very expensive movie in Finnish standards. It helps when you dont have to pay millions to actors.
Loved this movie. Most Finnish movies are no that good (I'm saying as a Finn), but this was something else. Have to see the other movies from Jalmari Helander. Thanks for the reaction.
Fantastic movie! And amazing storytelling as the lead character (Jorma Tommila )speaks only eleven words in the entire movie. I didn't even realize that until I read about it afterwards. I also highly recommend Rare Imports - same director, main actor, and his son (Onni Tommila - who plays the tank driver in Sisu).
3:49 Even at a conservative estimate, say, about 50 pounds worth in that satchel, he's got about $1.6 million dollars worth of gold right there! Of course, that's using modern market prices, but that's simply INSANE to think about! So yeah, to protect what's yours by right, sisu would most DEFINITELY manifest here!
Sisu can be literally translated by its denotation, it literally means tenacity. It's the connotations and the "soul" of the word that is impossible to translate.
I hate to do this but the geek in my gotta say that the tank used is a Russian T-55 which was first fielded in 1946 or 48 (not certain, but definitely after WW2) So it is not a German Panzer at all. Also the plane at the end is an American B17 .. Also not German at all. I loved the movie and I don't really care all that much. I get the low budget, and that tank was probably what they can get their hand on, the plane however was CGI, so they could've easily CGI'ed an appropriate German transport plane.
Tbh that may have been intentional. In serious movies we have wide selection of running ww2 era tanks over here. Stug IIIs, T-34 etc. Also, you have to keep in mind, that over here, it is cheaper to have practical effects than have CGI.
Written records of the word go back to at least 1889 and a murder trial in Texas. But in any case the Germans should be speaking German, it's all translated for the audience anyway so an anachronism would be perfectly acceptable here.
I've read from war novels, that "Job tvoj madj" was common insult in russian language that germans learned to yell to russians during second world war.
This movie is AWESOME !!!! I ESPECIALLY LOVED HOW THEY BROKE IT DOWN THROUGH CHAPTERS THE BEST CHAPTER IS (KILL THEM ALL ) 🤣 I LOVED IT THE WHOLE THING BUT THE BEST PART WAS IN THE PLANE WHEN THAT IDIOT GETS TAKEN OUT BY THE BOMB THAT WAS EPIC HE DESERVED THAT AND MORE GREED KILLS THOSE PIECE'S OF S.....T FOUND OUT THE HARD WAY LOLOL🤣BUT I LOOK AT THIS WAY THANK GOODNESS THEY DID GET INVOLVED BECAUSE THOSE INNOCENT YOUNG LADIES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RELEASED ANY OTHER WAY !!! SISU SAVED THEM !!!
I don't know how .... But this movie bored me to tears. You think I couldn't have said that about a movie where someone throws a landmine at a Nazis head and another person's leg flies away from their body onto another landmine, but I turned it off halfway through because I just couldn't be bothered. I will go back and finish it but man... Something about how it was shot was flat out boring
A finn here. I loved this movie. I believe we went to see this on our wedding anniversary with my husband 😄. I think the women also had SISU and loved them aswell.
Jorma Tommila has been one of my favourite finnish actors for decades. He can do stoic, expressionless emotion, to explosive raging fury with a drooling mouth. He's one of the greats.
I always tend to compare action heroes, and I could never get a clear winner...the top dog. I would say John Wick very possible comes in close to top, over James Bond or any characters of Tom Cruise in a fight, Schwarzenegger's and Stallone's characters are on par, Sarah Conner vs Ellen Ripley, the heroine from Interceptor, Chuck Norris, Westley Snipes, etc. But now I finally and unequivocally want to say that Sisu is THE CLEAR WINNER, and maybe ever versus all the above. Will take a prime Logan with Ademantium claws to beat SISU.
I really enjoyed watching this reaction video, I think you got the essence of the movie, and your reactions were similar to mine. I too was worried about the dog all the time :D this movie is absurd, crazy and funny, not something to take too seriously :D I think world need some sisu energy nowadays.
As a Finn, imo, you can totally translate "sisu" as grit/guts or perseverance. That's literally what it means. But it's nice to think it could be one of those elusive words without a translation. It's also the name of a very very very old breath refresher candy from 1920s that's still a prominent brand. Their original slogan was "Sisu helps", that changed to variations of the sentiment "many things would've been left undone without Sisu" by the 1990s. It's a common phrase these days to say "Sisulla mennään" as in "pushing forward with (only) perseverance". Current etymology says the word comes from "sisä", meaning internal or even "internal organs" specifically and has been in use since before 1750s.
As an Irish-American I see the concept as basically getting punted in the balls but still fighting. Kind of like the Hulk syndrome thing where parents miraculously lift car off their children, but only in that pushing through despite there being many reasons why you shouldn't be able to.
