"Sisu: Road to Revenge" is a polished case of"style over substance" with a predictable, anti-Russian message.
All the trappings are there. Excellent sets, spectacular cinamatography, at times entertaining, if over the top action and capable acting, from the cast. What's missing is anything that truly looks like a intelligently rendered back story. What made the first"Rambo" film work so well, putting the intense action aside for a moment, was a truly heartfelt back story, with a character, who, at least for one film had personal depth, that was wholly relatable, wholly"human".
This film aspires in this direction, early on and looks like its could get there but quickly devolves, into what feels a lot like a"Call of Duty" style, computer game, where you kill everything in sight, until there is very little left, not only to see but, in this case, to empathise with. The director and writers, try to reignite the emotional component, of this film, at the end, with the house building scene but by then, any emotional potential, has long since departed.
In summary, this film is a platform, for a mega-ton of over the top, at times viceral, gritty, action but that's as far as it gets. Looking beyond the superficial death and destruction, it's disappointlingly shallow. An okay watch."Sisu: Road to Revenge" is a polished case of"style over substance" with a predictable, anti-Russian message.
All the trappings are there. Excellent sets, spectacular cinamatography, at times entertaining, if over the top action and capable acting, from the cast. What's missing is anything that truly looks like a intelligently rendered back story. What made the first"Rambo" film work so well, putting the intense action aside for a moment, was a truly heartfelt back story, with a character, who, at least for one film had personal depth, that was wholly relatable, wholly"human".
This film aspires in this direction, early on and looks like its could get there but quickly devolves, into what feels a lot like a"Call of Duty" style, computer game, where you kill everything in sight,