"It’s a wild ride that begs to be seen with an energised crowd."
An action flick being described as a cross between John Wick and Rambo is now available to rent in Ireland.
Titled Sisu, the movie tells the story of a solitary gold miner (Jorma Tommila) in late 1944 who crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland.
When the soldiers decide to steal his bounty, they quickly discover they just tangled with no ordinary miner.
It turns out that the elderly Fin is a battle-hardened former commando who winds up embarking on a very bloody quest to retrieve his gold.
Though the film's gory set-pieces mean that it is definitely not for the fainthearted, the action flick has been getting rave reviews - racking up an impressive 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
You can read a sample of some of the positive write-ups for Sisu below:
Bloody Disgusting: "Sisu feels like a gritty actioner of yesteryear but with a modern sense of style. It’s a wild ride that begs to be seen with an energised crowd."
Empire: "Serving up stone-cold multiplex mayhem, Sisu makes no bones about it — this is a film about one mad bastard killing a gazillion Nazis. It’s almost impossible not to love it."
Globe and Mail: "If watching mass-murdering maniacs get absolutely destroyed on-screen is your thing – and it very much is mine – then Sisu is a perfectly depraved night out."
Observer (UK): "Sometimes all you want is a grizzled Finnish gold prospector relentlessly slaughtering cartoon evil Nazis in a variety of inventive and messy ways."
Ultimate Action Movie Club: "Part Rambo, part Wick, Sisu is the ultimate action saviour the modern genre needs."
Vulture: "I kept imagining it as what might have happened had Sergio Leone been alive to direct Crank: High Voltage."
Sisu is available to rent now on Apple TV, Google Play, Microsoft and Rakuten TV for the price of €17.99.
