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

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

Rather than being directed to avert your gaze from the effects of violence, you’re watching it magnified to the point of the cartoonish. It’s lavishly embellished with blood and gore. Talk about a guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 28, 2023

Sisu is as good as you’ve heard – bring extra popcorn.

| Jun 18, 2023

Styled as a midnight movie, Sisu makes terrific use of limited military hardware and a forbidding Lapland landscape. In common with 1980s actioners, there’s additional fun to be had treating gaping injuries on Tommila’s hardened, wiry physique.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2023

For all the pleasure viewers may take in the sight of nameless Nazis being dispatched and dismembered, they may be surprised by the film’s solemnity, too.

| Jun 8, 2023

Sometimes all you want is a grizzled Finnish gold prospector relentlessly slaughtering cartoon evil Nazis in a variety of inventive and messy ways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2023

Helander directs with verve and blood-drenched efficiency. The repetition, however, eventually becomes tiresome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2023

... The film sets out to translate in cinematic form what it presents as stoicism of the hardest core: implacable will extended into stone-faced comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2023

It is handsomely filmed with a suitably menacing score and is economical, moving briskly from one set-piece to the next.But it’s essentially meaningless and I didn’t care about anything.

| May 25, 2023

Jalmari Helander gets satisfying contributions across the board, from the accomplished camerawork to snappy editing, an intent score, and some particularly virtuosic make-up and VFX.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2023

Serving up stone-cold multiplex mayhem, Sisu makes no bones about it — this is a film about one mad bastard killing a gazillion Nazis. It’s almost impossible not to love it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2023

Imagine all the satisfyingly gory Nazi killing sequences from Inglourious Basterds neatly packed into a 91-minute grind-house-style B movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2023

It’s super fun entertainment, which mostly disguises the fact it’s not going to stick in the mind for long.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2023

A balls-to-the-wall Nazi-killing affair that more than lives up to the hype.

| May 8, 2023

I kept imagining it as what might have happened had Sergio Leone been alive to direct Crank: High Voltage.

| May 5, 2023

Should you want to spend 90 minutes watching Nazis get shot, stabbed, gutted, blown up, run over, and beaten with a variety of inanimate objects, in the most violent and gory manner possible, this war movie is the answer to your pulp-cinema prayers.

| May 4, 2023

A lean, mean Nazi-killing machine, Sisu is a brutal, bloody fantasy built for maximum fanboy thrills.

| Original Score: B | May 1, 2023

This period neck-snapper from Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander... could end up taking the gore-splattered crown as the most satisfying, over-the-top violent action movie of the summer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 1, 2023

Sisu is a blood-splattered dream action aficionados won’t want to wake from.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2023

Step forward, all of you who love seeing bad guys get slain in disgusting yet creative ways, without wasting time on fancy storylines.

| Apr 27, 2023