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As a Finn, I'm so happy to see Finnish movies getting attention abroad. I'm glad you guys liked it!

Hollywood: It isn't fair that you expect us to make a movie with only $200M. Finland: Hold my Jaloviina!

Budget of 6 million and looks more expensive than 200 million MCU movies lol

Just saw this and here’s my thoughts: the strength of the movie is the cinematography. This movie is absolutely stunning to look at with some just powerfully shot scenes. The very beginning with the planes flying overhead might be one of my favorite shots in years. The violence is way up there, the tension is through the roof at times. And the main character…this role was made for him. Highly recommend seeing this movie in theaters.

Sisu as a word first appeared outside of Finland in a Time Magazine article on the Winter War of 1939. Whilst technically an Axis power according to the armistice Finland basically fought off EVERYONE in the Second World War. They really didn't care too much about the wider issues they just wanted people off their damn lawn!

I'm sooo confused right now. I just saw my first trailer for this movie ten minutes ago and now here's a review. For a good movie, marketing dropped the ball.

To be fair to Finland; they only allied themselves to Germany because they got attacked by the Russians and they only fought against the Russians, not us. It was more a thing of circumstance rather than ideology or some such.

Greetings from Finland. I'm so happy that you guys reviewed Sisu

The plain didn't break into atoms. It dropped to a deep swampland. The pieces flying in the air were peat. The deep swamp is like a huge mattress. Remember Empire Strikes Back when Luke crassed?

Long time fan from Finland, so nice that you guys reviewed this movie! 😁 Love ye!

The Raid:Redemption is also an extremely simple story but is still my favorite movie just based on how good it does with such a small premise, go check it out if you're reading this, you will be satisfied

Sisu feels like a Wolfenstein movie!

The real life story of Simo Häyhä, a Finnish spiner nicknamed the White Death, is even more unbelievable. I'm surprised we haven't yet seen a movie based off of that.

Wow! Finally a movie that Joe, OJ AND Alex all enjoy! This must really be a good movie. Can't wait

I’m surprised no one has discussed about the movies cinematography. The scene when the man stands facing the tank and trucks driving up to him as the soldiers stand in place is so unremarkably well captured. Even the beginning when you see the orange trees and terrain in the background of the dog and the journey he takes on his horse is so rememberable. This film is gorgeous and beautifully shot! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"Sisu is a unique Finnish concept. It is a Finnish term that can be roughly translated into English as strength of will, determination, perseverance, and acting rationally in the face of adversity." Greetings from Finland. I already saw it months ago since it came earlier to cinema here in Finland. After all those 3 hour marvel movies its refreshing to see a movie that keeps things simple. Just one guy against a group of nazis. Loved the gore and how brutal the action was. Jorma Tommila was also made for this role, cant think of any other Finnish actor who could have pulled this of. The last 1/3 gets little bit goofy with cheesy dialog(in the wrong way) and the last action sequence felt too over the top compared to the rest of film. But in overall, a solid film, would love to see this character again.

Saw the movie a little over a week ago, absolutely incredible movie, went in without even seeing a trailer

When Aatami was about to drop Helldorf with the bomb, I almost had the urge to say, *”FINNISH HIM!”*

Just got out of the film! Got *DAMN* the lead needs some attention on him for getting so much acting outnof only ONE friggin sentence of dialog!

Never ever thought I’d see a finnish film reviewed on your channel Joe! I’m glad you guys enjoyed it!

20:38 The plane sunk deep into a swamp. That's how he (and the plane) survived. Finland has a lots of swamps. There's a theory the country's name "Suomi" comes from "Suomaa" which translates to a "Swamp Land".

Suomi mainittu ja leffalle kehuja! 🇫🇮😎🇫🇮

Im so glad you reviewed Sisu, i almost everytime trust your opinions for games and movies. And this is not exception👌 and yea, greetings from Finland 😍

Anyone looking for a Finnish ww2 flick about the Winter War should check out Unknown Soldier. Amazing action scenes.

Wow. A NINE from Alex. Now I gotta see it.

I'm going to have to throw in a quick comment about the plane "disintegrating" at the end of the movie. The plane dove indeed into a large swamp (quite recognizable to local folk). Apparently these swamps can reach the depths of even 10 meters, although 2-4 meters is more common. Still nonsensical, but I guess that's what they were going with. Regardless, if you fall into an eye of a swamp, it can be damn near impossible to pull yourself out on your own. Apparently this guy did just that. I think the story of this man is a kind of an exaggerated amalgamation of all of the stories behind many of the Mannerheim Cross recipients. Here's one as an example from Corporal Fisk: At one point, the company he was attached to was the target of a surprise attack by enemy forces. The young corporal decided that they needed additional support, and dashed away. To get his message through, he had to cross terrain covered by fire from 10 heavy machine guns, more than 10 light machine guns, other infantry weapons, as well as heavy mortar fire. Getting through to the own forces, he was then able to call in artillery support to save his company. A year later the Soviet Union attacked and captured a Finnish strongpoint codenamed ‘Sevastopol’. Gerdt volunteered to take part in the counterattack to recapture it, and according to the records charged forward as the first man. Armed with a sub-machine gun and hand grenades, he took out tens of enemies, always heading for where the fighting was the fiercest. He also dragged the mortally wounded captain Toffer, another Mannerheim Knight, back to the Finnish lines, after which he swiftly returned to the battlefield. His example is quoted as playing an important role in ensuring that the counterattack succeeded. Shortly after this he was decorated with the Mannerheim Cross, and in 1943 promoted to officer in the reserve, taking part in course number 57. He was wounded three times, including during the fighting at Sevastopol, before he was discharged after the end of the war in November 1944. End Quote. I've read accounts much crazier than this. Liked the review. Liked the movie. Have a good one.

In regards to the airplane, i think it landed into a marsh or bog of some sort, a rather deep one because the plane sank completely.

It's amazing how a movie with very simple plot, straight forward motivation can be so interesting and fun to watch. This is a must watch.

I just thought he didn't die when hanged because they didn't break his neck. Normally they quickly drop the person, but instead they slowly pull him up. He was just playing dead at that point.

Can't wait! Unfortunately not available nearby so I have to drive a little further out to a smaller theater. But I'm hyped!

As a Finn it's always awesome to see Finnish movies get credit abroad as well. It's also great to see Jorma Tommila as the main character. He is one of my favorite Finnish actors

Its a swamp, not solid ground where the plane Lander.

I saw this movie in February already because I'm Finnish.

As a Finn, I love the fact that the main character said like 10 words during the whole movie, and those were at the end of the movie.

I feel so proud that a finnish movie is actually getting recognised outside Finland.

I am so interested in seeing this. My friend showed me the trailer yesterday, it looks great fun.

8:06 I think people forget that First Blood was a slow drama for most of the film, not an action packed slaughterfest. A great movie, my favorite Rambo, but Rambo First Blood II was more when the series went full on action.

Suomi mainittu! Torille!

Rare Exports is another must watch by the same director, share the same main character and one of the young nazi's was the main kid actor in it. It's one of those movies I watch every Xmas.

Plane crashed into like a swamp, so it’s sunk, that’s why it didn’t “blow up”. Still super over the top, but you do see him coming out of the swamp like area. I was more impressed he found his gold while he was down there…

I'm still salty you guys crapped all over The Northman last year. That movie rocked.

The plane hitting the ground was bit stupid, but they did try to justicy it by having it hit and be swallowed by a peat swamp that are prelevant in northern finland.

So glad you guys liked this movie. Torille! 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮❤

It's a shame that gems like these are only shown in selected theaters as many will miss out on this. I know its not a major big budget Hollywood production but I wish they would have put a little more time and money into marketing so it would reach a bigger audience which it deserves.

Just got back and damn I loved it. John wick spaghetti western is pretty accurate. It’s dumb over the top action in the best way possible.

Greetings from Finland guys. I'm glad you liked the movie

"He is not immortal, or invincible, he just refuses to die"

glad you americans enjoyed this film. i am from lapland and i've actually hiked through similar ground where this was filmed and its outstanding to just be there and gaze on the far horizon.

6 million dollars.... super low budget guys... not really a lot of money... I can only get like 7 Lamborghinis with that.

You have to see the remade Unknown soldier movie from Finland too. One of the best war movies ever. PERKELE!

I saw trailer in front of Wick weeks ago. It worked. I wanted to see it just from that alone.

I’m from Finland and a big fan of your channel. It makes me happy for you to notice our country, even if its over the top action film like this. We are usually pretty invisible to the rest of the world.

I've been excited for this ever since I saw the first trailer.

The plane hit a swamp and sunk in there.

My wife and I really enjoyed the movie overall, that ridiculous ending aside. It was great and gory action, I was honestly surprised she went along to see it and enjoyed it herself. By the time our guy was going down in the plane, I was laughing my head off in joy, going along with the absurdity of the escalating events. Very fun time, and I'm happy y'all enjoyed it together!

I planned on watching it tonight but it isn't showing in any of my local theaters in Missouri. The closest one is 2 hours away. I called my local movie theaters and they didn't know why they aren't playing it. They said to check back next week and they might have it then.

I think the wreckage from the final plane crash may have cost too much, coz every scene with the large plane was a CGI plane, maybe CGI wreckage would have looked too bad and they couldn't afford to make physical wreckage so they made the decision to show no wreckage at all. Him surviving the big crash was the single most unbelievable part, but the film gets a pass anyway, it was pure hard-hitting entertainment from start to end!

That last part with the planecrash is about swamps. The are tons of wetlands/swamps in Finland and there are tales of people surviving huge drops to swamps.

Lt. Aldo Raines approves of the film and wont be happy until he has his 100 Nazi scalps.

i actually had got a early screening of Sisu from a mystery movie event but funny enough a lot of familes left the theater because they had no idea what movie it was go to be and yup it was amazing

Thanks for the hidden gem recommendation boys. Will have to check it soon. More of these please!

Now I know I need to see this 🎉 Just so great to get good Finnish movie available globally. Thanks for reviews and special🎉 for manscaped adds. Happy for OJ😂❤ from Finland with love❤

I saw the trailer when watching JW4 of all things. I didn't think much of it but maybe will reconsider tbh.

Man just wanna make a deposit😆

I misread the title as "Sifu" I thought they make a movie from Sifu game lmao

Whenever I hear WW2 and gold heist combined in a movie, I remember Kelly's War with Clint Eastwood. Different tone, of course, but one of my favorite WW2 movies.

The only reason I knew this movie even existed is because a movie theatre near my university has msytery movie nights every other Monday and they were showing Sisu last week

I went and saw this in theater yesterday, definitely worth it if you enjoy action movies. I was the only person in my showing so I am guessing this is going to fly under most people’s radar.

Lol it's a miracle the dog survived The guy turned into an Avenger at the end and has more plot armor that would make Tom Cruise blush😄

I think I'm going to drive a couple hours over to the closest city playing this to see it tomorrow. If not tomorrow then definitely next week. *Edit Just got back from seeing this. Yes, an incredible movie. A few things where you reallllly have to suspend disbelief but I'm ok with it because I view this movie as a retelling of a legend of this man. Most stories get more and more embellished in the retelling, So in this telling, a bunch of his feats esp near the end are almost superhuman. But I didn't care. Nazis getting destroyed? Hell ya! Im going to buy this when I can.

Finnish man during world war 2 era were more hardy that the main character in Sisu. And during Winter War were Finnish fought by themselfs against Sovient Union, was full of Tall Tale but real stories: Here is one of them. Called, miracle of Winter War. 1939. Sovient Union attacks Finland. Infantry company 40 that is made from senior citizens of Finland, with poor military equipment, is doing military refresher course, when company leader Major Armas Perksalo get note, that puts Ic40 into the war. Armas and his senior company had impossible task at hand. Their job was to stop Sovient Union attacks and prevent them to go Sweden through Salla mountain. 1500 soldiers Ic40 included went against 20 000 Sovient Union soldiers. 18 december 1939. You could get anything from the sky: Water, snow, anything. And temperature was between minus 86°F and minus 104°F. Weather during that time was extraordinary. To Finns it was advantage, as Finns didn't have any high tech equipment of that time like tanks, or cars. To Sovient it was bad. Part of the Finnish 1500 men decided to flank Sovient troops, but Finns didn't have any way of contacting to other Finns so nobody knew what anybody was doing. So Finns troops were scattered all around battlefield without knowing what others were doing, because of this Sovient troops started to be scared and panic as they heard sound of war all around them. They started feel like there were billions of Finns, that were everywhere. And all the sudden a Sovient soldier dropped dead into his truck. It was last drop to Sovient. In terror and panic they retreat, as weather was horrible nothing worked and they got kicked ass by punch of senior citizens who seemed to be all around them. Finns won that battle. And today on that same battlefield is a memorial stone that reads: "God was with us." We Finns are hardy in real life too, almost as if we were biological Terminators with luck of Han Solo.

Saw it today. Wish more people knew about it. But wow.. having the theater almost all to myself.. so amazing.

Loved the lake scene. The cinematography was great and it was amazingly brutal.

At the theaters now, happened to see this on schedule last minute looking forward to it

9:24 The moment Alex said 9 I paused the video and went to watch to 10pm show the next day... And I'm back to watch the whole video after Alex's verdict 🔥😂

Predicting this one will appear in the RLM mid-year catch-up.

To make a hollywood looking action flick with a 6mill.. it's the embodiment of sisu in itself as a finnish guy. You just make it happen, build a solid beautifull table with some scrap wooden sticks if you have no other means or choice.

Saw this as an ad when i watched evil dead rise. Seemed pretty interesting too.

OMG they reviewed this Finnish movie xD! And they loved it. That's so cool :). Sisu (basically "grit"). Torilla tavataan.

I can't wait to see this movie. I'm going next week!! Sad that it's not advertised more. The only ad is in the theater previews.

You guys should also review guy Ritchies the covenant that was really good to.

Simo Häyhä Aka the white death Finnish sniper killed over 500 enemies. Believed to have the most kills out of any war. It would be a cool movie joe.

Saw it today. It was awesome. Wanted to see it since seeing a trailer for it while watching John Wick 4 (the only marketing I saw for it at all).

I've seen the trailer for this movie a lot on youtube ads so im surprised to hear that not many people know about it's existence

If All AJ, OJ and Alex enjoyed the film, then it's definitely a must watch! ❤

cinema launch is May 11th here in Germany. I have at least one friend who would probably love this movie just from the trailer alone. Gonna talk to him about it. I'll definetly watch this when it airs and bring as many people as possible.

With the hanging part, apparently some people have taken hours to die from being hung.

I don't go to the theater anymore for a multitude of reasons but I will catch this when it comes to streaming.

As a swede it is hard to admit, but the finnish are probably the last real men of Scandinavia. Great movie 💯

Didnt know this was out but I've been wanting to see it since john wick 4 came out. Marketing definitely dropped the ball.

I'll wait for it on DVD, Joe! I heard this movie is awesome!

Joe saying let him cook made my day

Definitely gonna watch! Btw I saw a lot of advertisement of Sisu in Canadian theatres

Little bit late cuz I had other stuff to see in the theater but I'm lucky that it's still in my theater a couple weeks after this review. So I got my ticket. Super looking forward to it. And yo Alex... you say you're watching all the spaghetti westerns... I'm dying to know what you think about El Topo. Lol ikr? That is my be all, end all western. I fucking love that movie. It would be epic to hear what Alex thinks about it.

Rare Exports, have same actor and it is very special film too.

most badass scene, he points the pickaxe at the couple on the motorcicle, they have maschine guns, run anyway because the know they are fucked.

My local AMC with Dolby has it! Can’t wait

My opinion as a Finnish person is that many swamps at the northern periphery of Finland are actually quite deep and mostly water. So MAYBE the plane didn't actually pulverise or get disintegrated it could've been that the plane just "sunk underwater" and Aatami Korpi as the SisuMan survives the impact because he is a mythological immortal Finnish superhero

I do want to add that I used a new term for this movie ... "gripping"no matter how far fetched unrealistic it grips you right to the very end.

As a Finn, very happy to see this review. Personally I agree with AJ with his two points taking the number from 10 to 9. I Liked Sisu more than John Wick 4, because EVERYONE had magic suits which were bulletproof, and EVERYONE was supposed to be secret super-agent. It was like a parody of John Wick. Sisu has few issues, but still much less.