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When director Jalmari Helander ended his eight-year hiatus by unleashing the balls-to-the-wall, action-packed, Nazi-killing movie “Sisu”<\/a> on the world, he introduced a fantastic new action hero that at times felt like Finnish John Wick \u2014 a stoic guy with an adorable dog companion and a penchant for brutally killing his enemies.<\/p>\n Three years later, Helander is back for another round with the Finnish war hero Aatami (Jorma Tommila) in “Sisu: Road to Revenge.” This movie is cut from the same cloth as “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “John Wick: Chapter 4”<\/a> in taking the original movie’s concept to new creative heights with a brand new tone, delivering action sequences that look like they were impossible to make without killing half the crew.<\/p>\n In the new film, Finland has lost a big chunk of its territory to the Soviet Union following WWII, including where Aatami’s home is. He dismantles his home and takes it with him, embarking on a journey to cross the border. But the Soviets are hellbent on killing “the man who refuses to die” and send a bunch of guys to make sure he stays dead this time. That plan begins with what Helander calls “motor mayhem,” a massive set piece involving a “Fury Road”-style chase with several motorcycles, a truck, and eventually even biplanes, and it was the hardest part of the movie to shoot, as he told \/Film in an exclusive interview before the release of the film.<\/p>\n “It was important to me to have speed on this one, so I was just imagining all kinds of vehicles which we could use and trying to get in very difficult situations for Aatami,” Helander said. “It was really time-consuming and hard to shoot those sequences, especially motor mayhem with so many moving vehicles and all the cameras.”<\/p>\n Read more: 30 Best Male Actors Of All Time, Ranked<\/a><\/p>\nDogs and bikes and trucks, oh my<\/h2>\n