Sisu: Road to Revenge

The Finns endured savagery on multiple fronts during and after WWII, and this grindhouse action flick, a sequel to the sleeper hit Sisu, responds to that history with over-the-top, Tarantino-style revenge violence. In the first film, Aatami (Jorma Tommila), “the man who refuses to die,” fights the Nazis during the final days of the war. Here, the Soviet Red Army commander (Stephen Lang) who brutally murdered Aatami’s entire family is on his tail. The relentless chase features scene after scene of astonishing action set pieces. Sisu: Road to Revenge is the Finnish concept of “sisu” writ large, a tale of untapped, extraordinary tenacity in the face of certain death.

Q&A with Stephen Lang