Sisu

AroView: A stylized, tongue-in-cheek actioner set in a Northern Finnish wasteland where a lone prospector has his gold stolen by a group of merciless Nazi soldiers in the dying days of WWII.

This legendary ex-commando doesn’t say much in this mostly English-language film, but he’s effective as a one-man death squad, embodying the Finnish word “sisu”, which approximates to a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. Fans of John Wick and Rambo will get their money’s worth.

“Even as Aatami survives completely ridiculous and clearly life-ending assaults, the magic of bloody-mindedness keeps the action … if not plausible, then never less than hilarious and gruesome.” ~Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle