Sisu is very much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of film ... It transcends its very simple story by telling it in a refreshingly old-school way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 21, 2024

Its combination of ridiculous fun with genuinely compelling themes is a mixture few filmmakers can pull off successfully, yet Helander does so with flying colours.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

It takes itself seriously enough to string together a blood-drenched action thrill ride...but doesn't necessarily burden itself too much with matters of realism, probability, or even, when it comes to certain ballistic patterns, physics.

| Jul 12, 2024

At times the film plays out like a live action Wile-E Coyote cartoon. We see Tommila shot, stabbed, hanged, blown up, beaten, thrown from cars but nothing undoes his resolve to get his gold and get them Nazis dead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2024

Laconic as its protagonist, the film deploys a choreographed and stylized display of viscera and blood-dripping limbs to create something like “A Thousand and One Ways to Die in War.” [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2024

The film is only 93 minutes long but every 15 minutes takes us to a new chapter. What catches your eye is the spectacular cinematography by Kjell Lagerroos. The film also enjoys being barbaric and brutal, it makes bloodshed looks beautiful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2023

A scandalously entertaining movie where blood is spilled like beer at a bachelor's party... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 8, 2023

Nazi-killing has never felt so frustratingly dull.

| Nov 2, 2023

Sisu is unadulterated, grindhouse fun, and I for one hope we see more films like it very soon.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 30, 2023

Sisu offers a 91-minute massacre with deftly captured shots and wonderfully skilled action pieces, delivering heaps of blood-drenched fun. If Violent Night’s Santa had a Finnish cousin, it would be Sisu’s badass Aatami Korpi.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2023

As long as you're not hung up on things like whether a body used as a human shield can stop .50 caliber rounds, or if one can suck oxygen from a sliced trachea, and if you enjoy Nazis being exterminated (and who doesn't?), Sisu may very well be your jam.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2023

We know by now that messing with a man who has lost his family and has a legendary nick name is a bad idea (he also owns a dog, and yes, the Nazis try to kill it), so we sit back for the blood bath, something Sisu delivers in buckets.

| Sep 6, 2023

“Sisu” is gritty, blatant, bloody action cinema. It is a reckoning for sins that can never be exonerated and must never be forgotten. It is poetic vengeance delivered with lean, masterful precision.

| Aug 23, 2023

This is what would happen if Quentin Tarantino had ever directed a Clint Eastwood western.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2023

It's all very silly, but it's so over-the-top that it becomes blissfully entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2023

The plot is so concentrated. It’s haiku with machineguns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2023

What a brilliant role this is for Tommila, a crusty old man with the unkillable quality of Keanu Reeves' John Wick... with the inventiveness for killing with whatever is at hand of Liam Neeson's Taken character Brian Mills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2023

Sisu is many things, just like the term itself in its native Finland — and impossible to stop watching is one of them.

| Jul 30, 2023

Writer-director Jalmari Helander’s blood-and-guts revenge fantasy is the history revision you never knew you needed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2023

Most movies would benefit from having more scenes where Nazis are mercilessly mowed down. This movie would benefit from having anything in addition to that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2023