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Jalmari HelanderScénario:
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Kjell LagerroosActeurs·trices:
Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila, Arttu Kapulainen, Tatu Sinisalo, Vincent Willestrand, Wilhelm Enckell (plus)VOD (2)
Résumés(1)
Finlande, 1944. Dans la nature sauvage et hostile de la Laponie, alors occupée par les nazis, un ancien soldat découvre un gisement d’or. Prêt à tout pour sauver son précieux butin, il ne reculera devant rien, quitte à devoir assassiner jusqu’au dernier SS qui se trouverait sur son chemin.f (SND)
Critiques (9)
This Finnish World War II revenge film wowed with the trailer of the year. The film itself may not be a new genre milestone, but it's pretty cool. The not too experienced Jalmari Helander has originally enriched the popular library of current action movies. He chose a feared main character (John Wick, Nobody), whom everyone is afraid of, has a dark past and is a brutal beast in action, and swapped classic gangsters for Nazis, which is cool and fresh. Story-wise, however, it's very simple. The protagonist finds gold at his house and decides to take it to the nearest bank, but along the way he has to beat up a bunch of Nazis who want to steal it. The protagonist doesn't say much, the actions simply speak for him and when it comes to the getting down and dirty, it's a nicely brutal and dirty affair with an almost western feel to it. Unless you're willing to accept what all the main character can and can't survive, you won't enjoy it (if that bothered you in Wick, it's doubly true here), but I'm OK with it. Outside of the action sequences, it's a bit slower and more intimate, but luckily it's only 90 minutes long, so the movie goes by very quickly. I must also praise the villain, who played the evil Nazi brilliantly. There aren't many genre films like this being made and it's definitely my kind of thing. If you like revenge movies and Nazis, you shouldn't hesitate to go to the cinema. 75%.
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Un film de série B amusant en provenance d’une Laponie inhospitalière. Stylé, sanguinolent, drôle, énergique, voire légèrement caricatural et fantaisiste. Le sujet n’est pas vraiment une révélation, mais certaines scènes sont imprévisibles et pleines d’imagination. La présence d’Aksel Hennie dans le rôle d’un chef nazi est un vrai plaisir.
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Un film d'action déjanté qui ne ravira certainement pas les adeptes de témoignages historiques réalistes et de données historiquement précises mais qui pourrait plaire aux amateurs de plaisirs coupables, et sanglants, de série B s'inspirant des westerns et des récits de héros solitaires à la manière de Rambo, John Wick ou Taken, et rappelant par moments Inglorious Bastards de Quentin Tarantino ou Dead Snow de Tommy Wirkola. Les amateurs d'humour noir, de paysages nordiques et de vastes étendues de toundra, ou de chirurgie amateure, y trouveront également leur compte. D'un autre côté, ce n'est pas pour les spectateurs qui ne supportent pas de voir comment les corps humains (et ceux des chevaux) sont déchirés en morceaux en tentant de traverser un champ de mines. Les différentes variations sur l'extermination des soldats nazis sont souvent assez inventives (avez-vous déjà vu un héros tuer des ennemis sous la surface d'un lac et inhaler l'air qui s'échappe de leurs gorges tranchées pour éviter de remonter tout de suite ?) et les deux protagonistes principaux se trouvant de chaque côté de la barricade sont presque parfaits et fascinants, de sorte qu'on ne peut pratiquement pas les quitter des yeux. Le ton du film est tout d'abord sérieux, mais avec le temps qui passe et les scènes qui s'enchaînent les unes après les autres dans une absurdité croissante, il perd rapidement toute sa profondeur. Le réalisateur Jalmari Helander s'impose cependant en tant que créateur, avec des idées intéressantes, mais aussi, et pour la première fois, en tant que conteur solide, scénariste et réalisateur, dont le travail donne au dur récit de l'orpailleur et guerrier Aatami une personnalité propre dont on se souviendra longtemps, grâce à une esthétique frappante et un casting brillant.
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The previews are clear; the author doesn't even hide the fact that he hasn't had a peek at the same things you have. In the first more serious (not to be confused with serious) half it goes much better than in the second half, which pushes the deliberate guilty pleasure envelope a bit too hard. But even then, it’s good, playful and stylish. Only that it should have been either all in the style of the first half, or in the style of the second half from the beginning. This way, it feels somewhat like they took the opening of the first Rambo and the ending of the third. It doesn’t feel like a whole in neither style nor concept. That said, I wouldn’t mind a prequel set in the Winter War with a proper budget.
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Take out the resident. Lapland. Specifically, veteran Korpi, whose dog looks like a lamb, but he himself is no sheep. The trailer promised an enticing spectacle of grit in Nazi asses, but who could have guessed that’s pretty much all there is. Jalmari Helander blatantly steals from another thief (from the episode titles' font to the chunks of gold glaring into the face like an open trunk on Vincent Vega), but in the midst of physical anomalies, violence, blood, and slow-motion shots, I found that the style of exaggeration missed the mark quite a bit. Otherwise, I assume this film was an appendix to Finland's NATO application.
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Quentin Tarantino fans present… Once upon a time in Nazi-burned Lapland… When northerners make something like a Western, can it be called Northern? The initially low-key conflict between a lucky prospector who stumbles upon a hefty pile of gold and a beaten Nazi commando in a stolen Soviet T-55 turns into a bloodbath that should be taken with a grain of salt and treated more as entertainment than as a statement with historical value and philosophical insight. There’s a lot of blood and everything is filmed by fans of the genre with gusto, good ideas and a feel for visuals. There's no one well-known in the cast except for Aksel Hennie as the Nazi Obersturmführer.
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Ironically, the promising bubble created by the trailers bursts with the first action scene. The Tarantino-like titles, chapter divisions and a would-be spaghetti western atmosphere are unfortunately not enough to turn a boy's foolishness into a real film. I found Sisu surprisingly boring and most of all he struck me as a Finnish version of Machete, including the feeling that it shouldn’t have been more than a trailer.
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A bunch of Nazis steal gold from the Finnish Santa Claus, but unfortunately for them, he's an ex-commando of Finnish elite assassins and he doesn't like it very much. Don't be fooled by the film's description and look, as this is no serious murder mystery, but a pure swag satirical comedy that just happens to have the premise it does. Anyone expecting a Finnish killing spree John Wick should go into the film with caution and temper expectations, but anyone who wants to see a pissed off SISU grandpa tearing limbs off, destroying tanks and slicing up Nazis by the hundred-sixths in a very wacky and far-fetched format (10 minutes underwater, holding on to a plane and sprinting with a shot leg...) should go for it. Because I'm afraid this "festival film" for a narrow spectrum of viewers won't be available for download any time soon, so I'd take the cinema screening option. Although it may not have been the aim, I had a good time, and even though I don't often seek out this unrealistic and over-the-top genre, I enjoyed this one.
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The creators seem to have experimented with some unearthly psychedelics, because this supposed Tarantino-esque film set during World War II turned out to be absolutely insane. Fortunately, Sisu offers a brutal and visually striking spectacle from the Finnish plains, which we don’t get to witness every day. The main character doesn’t speak much (his first and last words come right at the end); instead, his actions do the talking. And those actions have a lot to say!... The action is over the top, completely ignoring any conventional modesty. Some sequences even stretch logic to the point where the poor guy might never recover :D (the scene in the river, the hanging, the ending with the airplane, etc.). Even for me, it was too much (and I’ve seen quite a lot in my relatively short career as a reviewer, I’ll be honest). But as I said, it does have a certain flair. So, leave your brain at home and head to the movie theater. For me, it’s 6.5/10.
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