A new film that is dubbed the ‘John Wick of killing Nazis’ has received an impressive 93 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
It looks like Lionsgate has struck gold again with their new historical action war film, Sisu, and it's currently receiving rave reviews from film critics.
Sisu follows the last days of World War II when a solitary prospector by the name of Aatami crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-Earth retreat in northern Finland.
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When the soldiers decide to steal his gold, Aatami attempts to retrieve it while defending himself from the Nazi death squad led by a brutal Schutzstaffel officer.
The film was only released a couple of days ago in the US, and already it’s attracting some serious heat.
Esteemed movie reviewer Robert Ebert praised the offbeat film for its originality and effortless blending of different genres.
“Sisu is also outlandishly entertaining, mostly because, contrary to its deeper themes, it isn’t afraid to be nonsensical. The film holds the kind of dumb, action beats and inventive kills, hokey yet fun dialogue that Hollywood used to be so good at producing,” he wrote.
Writer Matthew St. Clair noted how the film was reminiscent of John Wick while calling it a ‘fast-paced joy ride’.
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“Given how audiences are enjoying John Wick mania thanks to its newest sequel and the upcoming spin-off Ballerina coming next year, it’s only fitting that Lionsgate would capitalize on that craze by releasing Sisu which is very much in the vein of John Wick right down to our protagonist being a dog person, but set in WWII and with lots of Nazi fighting,” he added.
While Wade Major for FilmWeek wrote: “I've seen a lot of neo-Tarantino knockoffs. Most of them are kind of sad, but this one is amazing.”
In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting, the film’s director Jalmari Helander revealed how he wanted to make explore blood and gore onscreen.
“I just wanted to be entertaining," he said.
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"I’ve been missing that because all my previous films have been PG-13.
"I guess Rare Exports was something else in the US, but in Finland, it’s PG-13. Because all my early films, when I just used a VHS camera, were about a lot of violence like they usually are."
And if you think you’ve seen all the gruesome Nazi deaths thanks to a little film called Inglorious Bastards, don’t worry as Helander continues to push the envelope.
“It was fun to try to invent ways to kill Nazis and survive all the Nazi attacks with some inventive ways which you haven’t seen before," he added.
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"That’s what I liked when I was writing, to have cool ideas of what to do if you are in a situation where Aatami is in the film."
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