The Reel Rejects - SISU (2022) IS BONE CRUNCHING ACTION GOLD!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you to Shopify for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. All the housekeeping aside, are you ready for some bone-crunching action? Sisu! C-s-o! All right, gang. Get ready for some C-sou, one, a two, and a three-sue. Damn.

Starting point is 00:00:28 I'm so excited for C-Soo too. I would love if just every single movie He's just going to a different bank at the end To cash something else in He's on a mission to make that jet up That was insane That's so funny I love that they don't pay off the wife thing

Starting point is 00:00:48 Not at all Like I have no idea maybe that's the next one And I think I don't know I guess you could extrapolate That when he's in that one scene When he's going to sleep And he's laying down in that one kind of blown out building he's in and he hears the crying and stuff like i i sort of took from that that he must

Starting point is 00:01:06 have had a wife a child who died yeah and like the ring and the explosions in the distance like i just didn't know if that's where he was heading to save them or i guess yeah yeah the astute viewer would say but also given that we know the absurdity of the film it could have been anything yeah and i'm like knowing now that there is at least a part two you know they could always mess around with the lore i mean this man survived a plane crash with the plane is vaporized and he wasn't he can do whatever he wants well i think they smartly uh you know obviously there's a height to this movie there's some a level of disbelief suspension despite a lot of it being very conscientious enough to be convincing but uh yeah like i like that they

Starting point is 00:01:47 saved the most impossible stunt for the very end just strap right in ragdoll your body and hope for the best and like our only fin i i think that's finish like the only finish in the finish film is him. I like that the whole film's in English and he gets this badass guttural like three lines of dialogue. What it is a weird like you know any like I don't know there's all sorts of fascinating prismic angles to approach any sort of

Starting point is 00:02:12 war movie from depending on like who's making it and what language is it in and you know what is the casting like and stuff and I do think it's interesting because on the one hand knowing certain things about like international movies and stuff like that part of me wonders if they originally

Starting point is 00:02:27 we're going to have the Nazis speak German and then they were like, well, you could do that. Everyone English and then he gets... Well, that's the thing is like, it is striking and you could, if you want to, extrapolate some kind of choice from the fact that they've cast all that, because this isn't

Starting point is 00:02:43 an American produced movie, I don't think. So like so. All the Nazis are speaking English, which on the one hand is a very conscientious decision because that allows you a much bigger reach on the global market. yeah and uh you know you can see why they did that and i know that some movies you know run into problems there if they don't have people who natively speak english and sometimes you know

Starting point is 00:03:04 the accents are uh prohibitive and whatever else this clearly didn't have doesn't seem to have had that problem but uh it's just interesting to me yeah that you have marked like you're not going to not notice nazi speaking english especially when you get back and at the end yeah everyone in finland is speaking Finnish your lead finally speaks it's in his native language ostensibly like which just is really cool like it's just a neat thing and it feels to me sort of like them splitting the difference they're going like yeah we want this to get as wide of reach as possible and because like the nazis are the people who speak and because all their dialogue you know isn't isn't the rich

Starting point is 00:03:43 stuff about the movie like and then the language is so badass it gives such a payoff to him it gives him such a unique staple on the film yeah it's like you get to have your cake and eat it too because you're like, I want my Finnish film about this Finnish guy to be in Finnish. Right. But I'm also going to make this in English to be like clearly this has become a successful global movie. Yeah, yeah, like the Finnish women speak German

Starting point is 00:04:08 English to the guys. But yeah, even when they get back and they're all conversing. Like, it's beautiful. It's just like so this is. It's such a simple choice that's so strong. Yeah. And it's just like interesting and it feels, you know, movies now can sometimes feel like products and movies.

Starting point is 00:04:23 Especially in traditions or of or hearkening two other movies can feel like, you know, one thing or another. But that gives this a living feeling to it. And you could feel, when I heard, Girmil Datoro recently has been describing stuff as his things that he puts out as like, you know, handmade art for humans. Yeah. And it's stuff like that in a movie like this too. Make it feel like art. Yeah. And I love that the comp we had heard was John Wick, which it certainly is.

Starting point is 00:04:51 But there was so much Mad Max in this. so much like 70s grind house exploitation film in this and mad max is like ozploitation like the first mad max was very much a conscious choice to make a 70s ozploitation film and that was made with like no money and i love the some of the things this felt like and pulled from weren't modern like john wick this felt very of a certain time and and uh energy and it was a blast i i really had a great time with this yeah and it also feels like a western because it's you know it's about a guy just like off in the wilderness mining for gold yeah and then he finds it just trying to take it back to town to get it cashed in at the bank yeah that's a very

Starting point is 00:05:30 classic western kind of thing and so like there's a lot of the title cards and all that shit like there's a lot of spaghetti in this like it's fun because it's doing a lot of things at once and all while being a thing i've never seen which is a finish myth yeah but you know killing Nazis as i mentioned during the film like that's such a clean like we don't need a lot a backstory yeah you just make it yeah no matter well depending on where you are on earth i guess now it's a very easy yeah it's easy it's pretty global you know if you were enemies during the war i guess if you were allies at the time that's a bit awkward but uh yeah you made a choice there is a kind of yeah shorthand of like oh the nazis kill them yeah there's not going to be much savory happening

Starting point is 00:06:13 with these guys yeah there's not going to be much uh yeah redeemable complexity and some movies i like my villains to have shades of gray sometimes if it's a movie like this ultraviolence and like i want that to be clean yeah and i like that this it's like they're not hyper dimensional characters but it's also an immediate enough experience that it's not like a thing that's lacking yeah and the performers are good enough that it you can kind of fill in the blight like it's just as much as it needs to be and it's a nice tight nine minutes accordingly like the movie gets to be lean you mentioned it a couple times in there the movie just moves so you don't need to dwell on anyone too long you just like have this angry violence at them yeah and it just like unfolds and develops and it goes from one thing to the next and it feels like each step of the way he's just figuring out what's next yeah and every time it's it's you know it's you got to be able to sell the myth of this yeah immortal unstoppable guy and without losing the pace yeah and without losing the believability and yeah it's like when he's faced with those trucks in the tank i'm like what the hell's going to happen are they going to take a prisoner and and yeah it's like the way

Starting point is 00:07:18 he whittles them down and the way he kind of assesses each landscape and just goes for how can I take out a couple guys and get the hell out of here to the next thing yeah and uh and yeah it makes for a really effective it's it's weird because it's like just on the one hand it's like very straightforward very tight and very like no bullshit but on the other hand there are like a lot of great flourishes great details it's thoughtful it lets things breathe and it has beautiful like the movie itself is shot so stunningly it has so much cinematography that like I think this movie would have been fun if they just shot it, but instead they made it art

Starting point is 00:07:52 and then they got violent. Yeah. Yeah, this is so wild. Oh, boy, gang. Clearly, we did not enjoy this movie whatsoever. If you couldn't tell from my review. We've already begun, but if you happen to be watching at this point in the video, leave a like.

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Starting point is 00:08:57 Hey, Coy and John. Hey, you. Thanks for chiming in. I hope you liked this movie as much as me. Just wanted to know what you thought about there being no dialogue for the main character, pretty much all movie. What do you think it added to the movie? Thank you for all the hard work rejects much love. I mean, that's kind of how we opened the review.

Starting point is 00:09:14 I thought it was such a way to enhance the intensity. I thought having that it was almost a punchline of him being the only one in the spoke finish I thought his voice was awesome and gravely and intense I love that he was strong, silent but it was for purpose and for movie aesthetic I think it really captured a tone it was really unique so I love the choice

Starting point is 00:09:32 I think it added to it I think it enhanced it I thought it was a really smart conscientious decision to add tension to add a ticking clock element to add a funny button at the end like it did everything yeah this I really love when people are willing

Starting point is 00:09:49 to let that happen in a movie and you know that's kind of a neat thing about action especially is because there is already a mythos of like the silent warrior badass guy so yeah I thought that the the actor here

Starting point is 00:10:03 yeah if your actor is good enough to do it with their eyeballs for you know two hours hour and a half yeah he had so much presence and I really yeah love the choice to make him you know not me you know he's not mute but yeah not speaking for of the movie,

Starting point is 00:10:18 Atami. Yeah, this guy, Yorma Tomila. He's just so expressive and subtle at the same times, not over the top. But yeah, I love that we got this opening chapter to just observe him out in nature

Starting point is 00:10:31 on his own, you know, certainly striking of presence, but also kind of soft in a way and one with the elements. And yeah, it adds to this mysticism. And two, you know, it's like a practical thing. It's like, maybe he doesn't speak German. maybe he doesn't speak English you know like I like that that it doesn't matter because what he's

Starting point is 00:10:51 trying to do doesn't really involve having to communicate with them and what he's you know doing is all physical so yeah I think it's a really great device for visual storytelling it's a great opportunity for an actor to really show their chops and I thought it just continually drew me into this movie yeah I kept pulling me into his expressions kept pulling into like the moments in between it kept making me wonder if he was ever going to speak it kept intrigue up I think was a great choice. Yeah, and it lets you project stuff, but it also kind of puts you, you know, without putting you into the Nazis, like, perspective, you know, emotionally. You are trying to figure him out along with them. Yeah, that's a really good point. And so, like,

Starting point is 00:11:32 that's a way to kind of add to the mythological quality that he has for us viewing it, but without, yeah, yeah, and also kind of making the tension fun. It's like, we know all these guys are going to get murked, and it's still fun even though we're still with them going like what is this guy's deal and then i got to cheer when he spoke like that's such an added element of payoff yeah and i think as we were started to talk about i think it's really cool that he only speaks a few lines and i assume finish and that they have that passage at the end of the movie you know once you're at home and everything is sort of a sigh of relief you get the native language and yeah the fact that he comes in and he just wants to cash out his gold for bills like is heavy is beautiful. I love that it also implies

Starting point is 00:12:15 he's going to keep moving. I love that it wasn't to end the thing. It was under the next. It adds to the myth of him. It could be as simple as I've been, I left the war, I got nothing. I want to start a new life, give me my gold, or maybe he needs the goal for some purpose. Reject Nation, when

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Starting point is 00:13:40 Shopify.com slash. rejects. Thank you again, Shopify for helping us out of more ways than one. I like the idea of him just like he's going to the next mission, next thing he's on. He's been, like, we didn't see him at a place of stability. We interpreted it as beautiful and blah, blah, blah, but he might have just came from some stuff, found the gold onto the next. He just wants to move lighter. Like, they really give you everything.

Starting point is 00:14:01 Yeah. So love a laconic or a non-speaking hero. Love a movie that allows for stretches at a time with no dialogue. I feel like especially in America, Hollywood. would we are certainly wary of letting any too much time go by with no dialogue but i always appreciate it like the the Netflix thing where it's like make sure to describe what the characters are doing because everyone's on their phones when you watch like yeah it's gotten aggressively worse of over exposition explaining what's happening like this was delightfully the opposite and at no point did i even think

Starting point is 00:14:32 of my phone no no this was beautiful and i hope in the second movie he talks even less than this There's two lines, not the three he got. I hope that when he's on screen, not speaking, they play that, like, extra crazy silence that's like they've created a room at Cambridge. Yeah, it sounds like the lack of sound. Yeah, and it drives people crazy. You can hear not talking. I want him to be.

Starting point is 00:14:59 Yeah, I want him to be so quiet. I can't hear my own thought. Yeah. All right. Brian Nguyen, thank you for chiming in. Hey, guys, what were your favorite kills, moments, or sequence? in the movie. Man, the whole thing

Starting point is 00:15:15 feels like one big sequence. Obviously, there were moments that were beats. I think I really enjoyed when I kept not knowing what the next set piece was going to be and especially like once we got to the plane, once we got to the hanging,

Starting point is 00:15:27 that whole thing was like, what could possibly go from here? I think the, I think the women taking over was really cathartic in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting. Like, I knew this was a badass dude movie, but a lot of times,

Starting point is 00:15:40 that's at the cost of badass women moments but it also they didn't do his extreme violence where it felt like suddenly everyone was a badass they got to be badass with very simple beats like there wasn't anything I mean they literally got a fish in the barrel moment where it wasn't like well why are they trained assassins like

Starting point is 00:15:56 it got to be again the plausible deniability just enough where it's all absurdist but it still felt like and then he got to be badass in his specific way so I really like the women with the fish in the barrel I really liked the escalate of vehicles to violence.

Starting point is 00:16:12 I like those always like another setting. We talked about like the actual physical settings a few times and I liked that those always evolved. So that doesn't really answer your question but like yes and. I mean, yeah,

Starting point is 00:16:24 the scene with the women in the truck is there's so much across that scene again from the barrel of the tank gun coming into the thing and then him taking out the two soldiers like the whole sequence was one of my favorites is because yeah,

Starting point is 00:16:37 it's like you get these dudes discussing the situation only for it to like, interrupt the conversation which I just thought was like a really great it's like no bullshit and we're getting you know to some fun you know cathartic stuff and yeah it's like you get enough height with her shooting the driver she gets that marksman moment but then the rest of them yeah like this might be the first time they're firing a gun or the second or whatever but yeah like it's totally believable you also buy her as a marksman badass because she carries herself in a way the whole movie that you know she would be the leader of them like certain things like that

Starting point is 00:17:09 are just enough. Yeah, and it's like, I love that it's a smart call on his part because he's like, of course, this would help my mission, but they also deserve to get a little payback. And, you know, bringing back this tank is probably going to be an asset to our military efforts here. Like, you know, it's, there's so much to that. So that was really striking. I love the minefield because it, that was the first moment because it was like one of the

Starting point is 00:17:31 first bits in the film where I realized he was going to be thinning the herd. Yeah. The whole opening, I was like, oh, he's going to take out these Nazis. and then he's going to avoid the big group of them and then he's going to go on a mission. Once I realized the big group was turning around and the movie would be him thinning the herd by way of the minefield scene.

Starting point is 00:17:46 The minefield scene was great and it was that aha moment. Yeah, absolutely. When he thrusts the pickaxe at the two motorcycle dudes and they just run off, I thought that was just a very charming. Yeah, and I mean the minefield thing,

Starting point is 00:17:59 especially when he starts throwing them at the guys. Yeah. When it collides with that first dude's face or whatever, to go from throwing the rock, Setting one off and then hitting that one dude in the face was just like, yeah, very, very striking. Something I hadn't really seen or contemplated before him. Ripping that guy's throat open and breathing out of it as he's picking him off and the water was great. Yeah, the settings.

Starting point is 00:18:23 I also want to say. A plane was crazy. The, yeah, 100%. The hanging. The lighting in this movie reminds me of what I used to think of lighting as being. Like, we light movies so bland now and we light them so there's like this even finish. I think whoever lit this film also needs some love This is some of the does lighting

Starting point is 00:18:40 I've seen in a modern film in a long time Yeah, yeah absolutely This is and two really well chosen music Really well chosen physical effects And stuff like that There's like there is CG here and there for stuff But it's never distracting But yeah it's never distracting

Starting point is 00:18:55 And there's so much practical blood And gore effects That suture was nasty Oh yeah but hey I mean this film Like you grab a frame of this It just looks like one of those movies That'd be on like a Twitter feed Of like perfect shots

Starting point is 00:19:05 It's got such beautiful framing and lighting. Nothing wasted. Yeah, and him pulling that dude out of the tank and leaving him for them was a really... See, I love that that became a thing too. Because, like, in a way, they aren't like the rest of the movie, but like they're still in conversation via violence as the movie progresses. And it's really cool because, yeah, it does feel like, oh man, this whole other, he's gained something, he's empowered these women, they're getting to go home, you know.

Starting point is 00:19:35 Yeah, and they get their vengeance. Yeah, and it's like, yeah, it's badass, and it's a relief, and it's, like, it's so many things, and it's great, because it doesn't feel like you're losing any one element of satisfaction for it. Yeah. But, yeah, there's so much in this movie that's, that's big, big awesome, big cathartic, just great fights across the board. I feel like, yeah, you could just scrub the movie. They'd just be like, that scene and the name everything. It's like, even now, I'm like, I feel like I'm forgetting something. There's more scenes of the 17 scenes I just mentioned.

Starting point is 00:20:03 But, yeah, a lot of really brutal kills in this movie. movie all right j rushden question this movie is basically metal gear in finland what's your favorite shooter game uh actually of that genre metal gear uh metal gear solid i guess specifically i loved the the cardboard boxes the taking larazepam the intensity of it the i mean that's where i discovered a lot of you know lore around uh snipers i love that you use the little like you know d pad to fight the guy psychically like there's so much to that game that is so much to that game that is genius and inventive. I'm a huge Metal Gear Solid guy.

Starting point is 00:20:39 I haven't played a lot of shooters since. That was like in my gaming era. I was a big gamer, PS2, PS1, twisted metal, like that era of gaming was my jam. I started making money off of loving, like, media, and then games being the amount of time they are made it prohibitive. So I actually don't game anymore, but in my youth in high school and stuff,

Starting point is 00:21:01 Metal Gear Solid was a highlight for sure. Yeah, it was definitely a big Metal Gear person and I could see how this guy has some you know especially some like snake eater you know a little bit or well I guess he's even older in Metal Gear 4 but you know I feel like aren't you in Snake Eater dealing with the fact that he's like the actual guy or he's like older he's show I never got to that young because they age weird anyway love Metal Gear it's been a minute since I have been an avid gamer so yeah like I like I loved resistance fall of man which was like a World War II alien

Starting point is 00:21:35 sci-fi shooter um you know you got your stuff like house of the dead or any of those like you know first person pov horror games is always fun uh you know if i'm at an arcade i always love a time crisis like the first halo a lot when i played it at friends houses i was a PlayStation guy but when they had Xboxes halo I remember being cool yeah see I didn't have Xbox so like whenever I would go over to whoever's house to when and Halo would be played it was everybody else had Xbox so they were all good at it yeah yeah I don't get to Like, I live it out of the controller.

Starting point is 00:22:07 Like, what is this? I don't have an opportunity to, like, really practice to get on your level. Yeah. I got Doom for my Switch. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wolfenstein is always fun. Call of Duties were, like, you know, on. I didn't really play them, but, like, I know there's a love for a reason.

Starting point is 00:22:24 Yeah. But, yeah, definitely Metal Gear. Hells, yeah. Leave us your faves down below. Just going to shout out to Miriam A, who said, C-Soo, Crying Happy. tears in Finland. I hope you enjoyed this

Starting point is 00:22:37 and shouts out to you in Finland. I love to go visit one day. Yeah, do you have it. It's beautiful, apparently. We can go, did they shoot this? We could go and take the Sisu tour. Yeah. See where he got that gold. That's right. I'm sure it's there.

Starting point is 00:22:50 John's going to go sifting. And this is real quick. Reeves said, no question. I just want to wish you, wish all of you a happy Halloween. I know this reaction will be uploaded way after, but still, we appreciate it. We appreciate it.

Starting point is 00:23:04 Hell, I'm about to go get spooky. Yeah, that's right, man. We got to get out of here. We got spooks to spook. Yeah, it's time. We got dastardly deeds and ghoulish shundertakings.

Starting point is 00:23:13 We got eves to hollow. We got hollows to Eve. All right. Any stray thoughts? My last thought is that this entire time, if you go to the poster, I thought he was wearing a hat, but it's actually a knife of the reflection.

Starting point is 00:23:26 This entire time, I thought that was the bill of a hat. I thought he was wearing a hat, too. It's a knife of the reflection. Literally this, moment this in this moment that's so funny last thought not a hat saw this poster i was like it's the hat poster yeah i'm going to black can play with a hat oh he did stab that dude right through the head he did like right up top and that's a foreshadow that was very stark that's where the knife went but it was in the other guy's head that is not a hat that is my last thought

Starting point is 00:23:53 well all right gang oh and him strapping that dude to the bum crazy a plus work crazy work oh my goodness Excellent sound design pacing, writing, editing, acting, cinematography, lighting, those assistant camera guys, rack and focus, production, like, this is a tour to force, every department firing on all cylinders, handmade art for human people. This was sick, cannot wait to check out Sisu 2, and I guess, you know, I wonder if we'll get another tight 90 or if it's going to be that thing where they do like, okay, here's a really stripped back, straightforward. He's going to learn that he's part of a mythic in Norse God lineage and he goes to a crime underground. There's 10 other families. And each of them represents a spiritual violent force that has like no translation into other languages. And then all the women come back and they realize that they were fated to be with them all time. He also frees some children and they kill the Nazis.

Starting point is 00:24:56 And then after that he goes to the bank and he sets down the giant clothing. meteorite that just fell from space and asks them for the gold from the first movie and it's an easter because the third movie is going to be a time jump back to when he got the gold from the first movie and then new timeline opens up

Starting point is 00:25:15 and it's only a sequel to part one. Anyway, thanks for joining us. Does anyone be able to separate that audio and hear the two different sagas that John I have the stems. Oh boy. I have the stems. That was that was a the first that was good we made we made jazz that was truly something that was some jazz if you made

Starting point is 00:25:36 it to this point we appreciate you yeah run your hands across the keyboard a few times hit enter and we'll catch you on the next one people cheers

The Reel Rejects - SISU (2022) IS BONE CRUNCHING ACTION GOLD!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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