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.