“Sisu 2: Road to Revenge” has even more blood, action, and, yes, humor than its critically acclaimed predecessor.

Sisu 2’s unkillable hero battles through broken glass and mousetraps in brutal new clip (exclusive)

"Sisu 2: Road to Revenge" has even more blood, action, and, yes, humor than its critically acclaimed predecessor.

By Mike Miller

Mike Miller

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November 17, 2025 12:00 p.m. ET

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If you're a fan of movies like *John Wick *and *Inglourious Basterds, *but felt that the near-cartoonish levels of action and violence didn't quite go far enough, then 2022's sleeper hit *Sisu *is probably right up your alley.

But if you saw that blood-soaked, critically-acclaimed Finnish thriller* *and still weren't satisfied, then, yes, there might be something wrong with you. But don't worry, there's a cure on the way that's sure to quench your cinematic bloodlust: *Sisu 2: Road to Revenge.*

After surviving an entire SS platoon, a grenade explosion, his own hanging, a plane crash, and many, many other near-death experiences in the first film, the seemingly immortal Finnish soldier Aatami Korpi (played mostly in silence by Jorma Tommila) finally returns home to Soviet-occupied Karelia, where his family was brutally murdered during World War II. Refusing to live under Soviet rule, yet unable to abandon the house where he had raised his children, he decides to dismantle the building, load its wooden beams onto his truck, and transport them to a safe location, where he can rebuild it in honor of his family.

Jorma Tommila in 'Sisu 2: Road to Revenge'.

But, of course, it doesn't take long before people start trying to kill him again. When the Red Army discovers he's returned to their land, Igor Draganov (Stephen Lang), the man who killed his family, is released from prison and tasked with the impossible: killing the famous ex-soldier by any means necessary.

So, after everything he endured in the first film, what else could the Red Army throw at him that the Nazis haven't already tried? Turns out, quite a bit. And while *Sisu 2 *dials up the bloodshed to 11, it also leans more heavily into slapstick than its predecessor, giving a delightfully Looney Tunes-esque feel to some of the epic set pieces. For example, at one point, Korpi gains on his enemies by literally strapping himself to a rocket à la Wile E. Coyote.

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You can see one of the best examples of how Finnish writer-director Jalmari Helander gleefully mixes physical comedy with brutal violence in the scene above, debuting exclusively with **. (Warning: If you haven't guessed by now, the clip is NSFW. So much so, the MPA has asked that we include the following disclaimer: *Online limited restricted, heavily adult-skewing*.)

The scene finds Korpi having just escaped yet another round of torture and near-execution after he's captured by the Red Army and loaded onto a train. With his back ripped to shreds from a savage whipping, a near-naked and unarmed Korpi sneaks into the next train car, searching for Draganov. What he finds instead is a car full of Red Army soldiers fast asleep in their hammocks.

As he tiptoes around the men, whose hanging limbs create a human obstacle course in his way, a bottle smashes to the ground, leaving a mess of broken glass for Korpi to walk — and then roll his battered back — over. The final insult comes when, reaching under a hammock, he accidentally slips his hand into a mousetrap.

Jorma Tommila in 'Sisu 2: Road to Revenge'.

"The most fun I had directing *Sisu: Road to Revenge* was the train sequence," director Helander tells EW in a statement. "It was in the end of the shooting period, so after shooting a lot of moving vehicles and difficult action, the peace and control I had in the train felt good. I could actually talk with the actors and concentrate on details."

Like most great scenes, the filmmaker says it all started on the page. "It was so much fun to write all the things that could go wrong for Aatami and make his journey even more difficult," he explains. "Little things like the hands that block the way and all that! In the writing, I was sure that the rat trap is too much. I felt it also when we were shooting and in the edit. I took it away many times, but the rat trap always came back. Luckily, it did. All the screenings I have been in, it always makes a big reaction in the audience."

Be sure to check out the whole wild ride when *Sisu: Road to Revenge *barrels into theaters Nov. 21.

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