Sisu - The Road To Revenge [They Should've Called It "MY ROAD TO POVERTY!!"]

Never, NEVER stand between a man and his revenge quest.

Just when I thought nothing in the world could be blown up and completely destroyed BY ONE MAN I stumbled upon this epic ode to man-made chaos, SISU!! And then imagine my utter surprise when I found out that this was a SEQUEL and that somehow, among my stumbling, overworked and UNDERSEXED life I MISSED THE FIRST MOVIE!!!

But let me DIGRESS (don'tcha just love hearing that?) 

The first time I tried to watch this movie I FELL ASLEEP.  Not because it was boring (I'm a guy and I count every explosion as a reason to keep living) but because I was just FUCKING TIRED. I left the theater regrettably, having lost some hard-earned bucks. But while away my mind kept telling me to try again and finish the movie. At about this time I discovered that 'Sisu The Road To Redemption' was actually a SEQUEL. WTF... A Sequel! So I staggered over to TUBI.COM to find the first movie and mark it for watching (which I did).

Being a big YouTube watcher I promptly forgot this and sleepwalked my way over to the site and promptly paid nearly 4 dollars to rent the movie for watching later. So I PAID for what I could watch FOR FREE on TUBI !!!

DAMMNNN!!! Fatigue is a motherf*cker!!


But the rented YouTube movie was only $4 so WTF.


Now you'd think my self-inflicted nightmare was over but oh-no! It was just getting started.
So... a week or so later (TODAY) I went back to the theater to finish watching 'Sisu [PART 2], The Road To Redemption'. Ultimately paying TWICE now to see the damn thing! Yikes!

So my whole Sisu misadventure has cost me about, $42.00 -and that includes buying $9.00 popcorn buckets TWICE.

'SISU PT. 2' (paid for twice!rounded off to $20.00),
'SISU PT. 1' (paid for once! rounded off to $4.00)
Popcorn for 2 theater visits: $18.00

ANNNYWWAYYY.... what did I think of 'Sisu, The Road To Revenge'?? It was everything I wanted and then some! Bare in mind that this movie was watched without watching the original film, 'Sisu'! It's not as bad as it sounds because the movie is self-sufficient and stands on it's own merits.

Okay. Enough of that!

THE MOVIE REVIEW STARTS HERE:

'Sisu, The Road To Revenge' is a great example of what I have chosen to call a 'Mythological Narrative'.

After classifying this film in such a way I actually thought I had invented a new category of film -but my critical mind told me, "CHECK THE INTERNET. THERE'S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN". And there of course I found plenty of dramas with narratives that have mythological narratives. By saying 'mythological' I am straddling the difference between legends and mythologies because the two are often intertwine. It's like the legendary City-State of Troy in Homer's Iliad. We all know there are no Sea Sirens to lure sailors to their doom but Troy itself was an actual ancient city.

Make no mistake about it, the film has serious wall to wall action but through it all is a current of 'unrealism' but not to the degree that it makes you scoff at the film or it's plot. In fact it's so deeply ingrained in the narrative that it becomes nearly ironic (as if it shouldn't be so but is).

Throughout the narrative the viewer is constantly reminded that Sisu is now considered a 'legend' and thus the villains are highly aware (for the most part) that they are dealing with someone who is like a Superman. He lives up to this ideal as well in nearly hilarious ways. Inventing his way straight out of back-to-the-wall incidents. Relying on stunning luck and coincidence that, thanks to the buid-up that this guy is LEGENDARY does not really shatter the all important aspect of 'suspension of disbelief'. It all falls neatly into place. One impossible escape after another.

All in all this is a very good way to spend an hour and a half of your life, just as long as you have a plenty of snacks and good sense of wonder (and stomach) for the excesses of human evil.

One Wrong Turn After Another!

 

The film ('One Battle after Another') has obvious political overtones to burden it (for better or worse). But having said that it could be a critical success if not financial... and that has a lot to do with 'Word of Mouth'.

I saw the movie (had to say that because some reviewers DON'T WATCH THE FILM!😜) but there was definitely some aspects of it that simply did not resonate with me on a dramatic level regardless of political affiliation. It seemed to lack relevance... (it's storyline linked the 70's battles for abortion rights with the present day battle for immigration rights -yet who in the world can relate to that link?)

Although both Leftist issues they are extremely different Causes in their own right. In other words you can be for abortion but against mass migration very easily and vice versa.

I guess my main complaint was that it lacks narrative direction.

SPOILER ALERT: had the film been solely about fighting for abortion rights instead of fighting for ANY RIGHTS (midway the film switched from abortion rights to immigrant rights) it would not have appeared to me as directionless. When the daughter runs out at the end to "join a different battle" it simply didn't do anything to support her character's quest to understand her mother at all. It was simply, "I'm going to fight for something too" -which is a universal sentiment, not a personal one.

Regardless I've seen a lot of pure CRAP this year from Hollywood as we all have. This movie didn't make the Crap List at all. 😆

Oh yeah, sorry not sorry for the emojis! This was a YouTube comment turned into a quicky film review...😨

Half-Ass Crossdressers and Transsexuals Piss Me Off!

 

Is this real? A male 'fairy God-Mother' at Disney World or Land? This is unintentional-intentional humor at it's finest.😀

At some point when organizing this you know the Big Shots had to think, "WTF are we doing? At least shave, bro!"

Man, there's nothing worse than a half-ass transsexual, drag-queen or crossdresser.

A FEW TOUCH-DOWNS SHORT OF A HIT MOVIE

'Him' is a great "concept movie". It proposes that the NFL and it's choices are actually [SPOILER ALERT!!!] controlled by a cult of Satanic businessmen, cheerleaders, sports doctors and trainers. And at the center of this is the current reining super quarterback, Isiah White*.

But of course in Hollywood's most recent fashion; it's most current ideation of "let's destroy it to see how well it works", the concept isn't executed correctly or should I say in a more entertaining manner.

The pacing, the scenes, the revelations are all ponderously executed. As if the script for this thing wasn't REALLY FINISHED OR REVIEWED. It feels 'green-lighted'- as a matter of annoyance instead of determination. And it's main premise, that of the Satanic worshiping football league isn't fully explored to his horrific potential.

Simply put the film wasn't SCARY ENOUGH. It didn't shock or rise to the level of shock. It sort of COASTED on the screams of the last BETTER horror movie you watched.

To tell you the truth I could've anticipated this from director Jordan Peele. His films always have a political subtext that feels jammed into the narrative, not worked into the script. Here he takes his usual jabs at "Whitey" and the ill-effects of slavery on blacks (never mind the modern, more general Black American experience of ultimately rising above the evil days of bondage to attain some success in the USA). We've got to be reminded every film that Jordan does that the "System" is rigged against the black man.

After a while you just want him to give it a REST.

* [NOTE: this is Jordan Peele movie so the choice of 'White' as a last name for a black main character has the built-in intended political overtones the director sought to portray.]

Go Gina!

Life After Victory: Unfairly called a "Fascist'" when she voiced her supposedly 'Far-Right' opinion by the jokers at Disney, Gina won her lawsuit against them and plots a different MORE FREE course in the entertainment world.

Disney, which took over the Star Wars intellectual property and began a tyrannical, fan-ignoring change of the official canon and non-canon storyline, pathos and general meaning of the franchise has ZERO right to call anyone a DICTATOR.