Sisu: Road to Revenge
Directed by Jalmari Helander
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who killed his family (Stephen Lang) comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues - a fight to the death.
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- Tyler SDecember 16, 2025A pure shot of adrenaline to the heart. 90 minutes of absolute action and carnage. I like how in the current landscape of most sequels writers and directors seem to acknowledge issues audiences had with the original and rectify them. All the problems I had with Sisu have been swiped away in Road to Revenge. Casting Stephen Lang as the main villain was a genius move, he has perfected playing characters we love to hate. Jorma Tommila is the action star we deserve, the man has zero lines, but expresses so much emotion with his face we feel every ounce of pain and loss. Watching him get his revenge is one of the most satisfying movie going experiences of the year. Pretty sure I said this in my review for Sisu but people call Aatami Korpi the Finnish John Wick and that's not the case at all, this beast is Rambo all the way. Hopefully this does well and we get a trilogy. Highly Recommended! 👍👍 8.5/10
- Hipster ZOMBIENovember 27, 2025Sisu: Road to Revenge is a reminder that sometimes cinema doesn’t need complicated motivations, tangled lore, or a three-act emotional dissertation about finding yourself. Sometimes it just needs one man, one ruined home, and enough carnage to make even the most seasoned grindhouse aficionado laugh and say, “…damn…OH SHIT!” The film doubles down on the bloody, bone-crunching brutality that made the original Sisu such a cult sensation. If the first movie dipped its toes into exploitation-style gore, Road to Revenge does a cannonball into it—sending limbs, shrapnel, and crimson spray in every possible direction. And yet, beneath the geysers of blood and pulped-flesh poetry, the story couldn’t be more stripped-down or earnest: a man just wants to rebuild his damn house. That’s it. Forget national conspiracies, secret cabals, or long-lost family trauma. This is a revenge saga built on the most relatable foundation of all—home improvement gone catastrophically sideways. The grindhouse aesthetic is lovingly baked into every frame: blown-out colors, chapter interruptions,and that slightly grimy texture perfect for midnight cinema viewing. The editing is sharp, the pacing relentless, and the violence so deliberately exaggerated it borders on slapstick—if slapstick involved pickaxes, landmines, and an alarming disregard for human anatomy. Several standout moments include a man being tossed through a window shield, a biker flying through the air and getting blown up and of course, THAT plane scene. I don’t want to say anymore than that because you need to see it! If you love grindhouse throwbacks, unapologetic gore, and stories with the narrative depth of a sledgehammer to the skull, Sisu: Road to Revenge is a deliriously fun ride.
- RipLinesManDecember 23, 2025Sisu: Road to Revenge turns the Finnish wilderness into a kind of open air inferno that still feels spiritually wired to Event Horizon (1997), Paul W. S. Anderson’s masterpiece about what happens when a journey becomes a one way corridor into damnation. Jorma Tommila’s Aatami Korpi is built like a man who already crawled out of the furnace and decided to walk back in on purpose, and the movie’s revenge engine runs with the same moral math as Event Horizon’s central duel: Laurence Fishburne’s Captain Miller clinging to procedure and survival versus Sam Neill’s Dr William Weir surrendering to the red glow that promises meaning while it strips you for parts. Here the tempters wear uniforms and certainty, with Stephen Lang’s Yeagor Dragunov embodying institutional cruelty that talks like order while acting like a gatekeeper to deeper circles, and Richard Brake’s KGB Officer adding that cold bureaucratic menace that makes evil feel stamped and filed. Tommi Korpela’s Finnish Man and Kaspar Velberg’s Pilot function like anxious crew, witnesses to how violence spreads when the door is opened, and Jalmari Helander stages the action with blunt clarity so each kill lands as consequence rather than spectacle, like an airlock cycling shut after something unspeakable slipped through. The result is not just cathartic but mythic in a grim way, a revenge film that understands endurance as its own kind of theology, where the hero does not escape the underworld so much as drag it across the snow until it stops following him.
Sisu: Road to Revenge Trivia
Sisu: Road to Revenge was released on October 22, 2025.
Sisu: Road to Revenge was directed by Jalmari Helander.
Sisu: Road to Revenge has a runtime of 89m.
Sisu: Road to Revenge was produced by Petri Jokiranta, Mike Goodridge.
Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the Red Army commander who killed his family (Stephen Lang) comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues - a fight to the death.
The key characters in Sisu: Road to Revenge are Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), Yeagor Dragunov (Stephen Lang), KGB Officer (Richard Brake).
Sisu: Road to Revenge is rated R.
Sisu: Road to Revenge is an Action, War, Thriller film.
Sisu: Road to Revenge has an audience rating of 8.7 out of 10.
Sisu: Road to Revenge had a budget of $12.2M.
Sisu: Road to Revenge has made $9.8M at the box office.