There was no obvious need for a sequel at the end of “Sisu.” Jalmari Helander’s 2023 historical thriller follows a grizzled Finnish man who battles a crew of Nazis trying to steal his gold and finishes the job so definitively that he probably accounts for a solid 30 percent of the German casualties in the Lapland War. But when your protagonist is so hard to kill that his enemies call him “The Immortal,” it would be a shame to waste the franchise potential when so many other nefarious actors occupied the world stage in the 1940s.
Helander’s follow-up, “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” shifts its ire from Nazis to Soviets, but the narrative bones remain nearly identical to the first film. A group of World War II-era bad guys once again mess with the wrong senior citizen, who has endured so much loss that he now has nothing to lose, and…
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