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Sisu is one of those unheralded films that comes seemingly out of nowhere to grab the adventurous movie-goer by the throat. For a perfectly-pitched 90 minutes, it glories in the excesses of gore and violence with an exuberance rarely experienced t...

With its tongue no longer in cheek, the grimmer and more preposterous sequel to Sisu makes up in adrenaline what it loses in (gallows) humor. Unlike the first film, which often seemed to wink at the audience, this one commits fully to darker terri...