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to all my movie fans out there and welcome back to my Channel movie files today we are discussing
a new historical action film that actually debuted at the Midnight Madness section of
the Toronto Film Festival last September and we'll be making his way out to the U.S markets
come the end of April we're talking about sisu a film we got a chance to check out early courtesy
of Lionsgate now the buzz and the world on the street in the film festival was this is a John
Wick meets Mad Max free Road type of film now those are films that I love and I adore so does
this film deserve to be in that conversation is it worth checking out we'll be discussing that
and much more in today's spoiler-free review but first let me know if you all have heard of this
film and if you were excited about it in the comments section of course once you all have
seen it let me know your thoughts on the Direction the Story the performances the action in this film
what were some things you love what were some things you didn't like about this movie let's
talk about it and comments below and of course if you all appreciate today's spoiler-free review
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so again I had heard some of the words coming out of Toronto Film Festival but then when I
saw the trailer a couple months back on YouTube I saw the first 20 25 seconds and I said yep I
don't need to see any more I'm sold I need to see this film and listen I will say as comparing it to
those films I mentioned up top John Wick Mad Max free Road yes it has some similarities and I'll
also throw in the approach to the filmmaking the approach the story has a Quentin tarotino-esque
Inglorious Bastards Grindhouse vibe to it with the John Wick isms with this character being very much
like John Wick with the will and determination and being unkillable in the Mad Max Fury Road
vibe to it I would say in comparison the way that it tells a story and how it's constantly moving it
has some similar Vibes now it doesn't quite hit those notes of those great films and I'm talk
about that a little bit later but I will say the action in this film is definitely in comparison to
those movies because the action in this movie The approach to the action is just phenomenal I mean
it is not only creative and entertaining but it is also extremely violent and very brutal again
I'm Gonna Leave the trailer to this movie in the description of this video so check it out don't
watch the whole thing because it does give away some of the more exciting surprising beats of the
film but just watch the first 30 seconds and if you are into that type of action that's only the
tip of the iceberg because again the thing that I really appreciate about this action because I've
seen my fair share of action movies and there are plenty of those movies that give you the
incredible action it is big it is bombastic within the first action set piece but then as the film
goes long it never manages to meet the action set piece from the beginning so this film is saying
constantly to the audience wait a minute hold my beer you think that was cool you think that
was brutal you think that was violent wait till you see this next action set piece so I do enjoy
how it was able to one-up itself as the film goes along and listen Grindhouse throwback 80s action
film this B level action film it definitely hits those beats so I definitely do appreciate
those moments but pivoting over to some of the performances while none of them really blew me
away per se or really kind of broke new ground I will say our main character who is this kind of
mythical figure who has his history of being unkillable like a John Wick while he doesn't
have a lot of dialogue in this film besides a couple Grunts and moans and a couple lines here
and there it's more in the physicality from the main actor as well as there's some Nuance going
on in the in the facial Impressions and also you have to have an actor that's very believable and
capable of doing the things that the character does in this film so I do appreciate the Nuance
that we get in the very subtle performance from our main character but also I am a fan of great
production this movie is like on a 6mm million dollar budget and the scope and the scale and
the creativity behind the lens was something I really appreciated because with this movie We
are following this gold minder who comes across gold he has to travel hundreds of miles to cash
this in he comes across these Nazis they still is gold and it's a very simple premise but the
groundiness in that it takes place in Finland 1944 the back half of World War II the grittiness the
visceralness the disgusting nature of these Nazis they really captured that ground in this really
well in this movie so those are some things that I really appreciate about this film but
it is by no means a perfect movie and I'll just say this did match it and compare it to again
very similar to a Quentin Tarantino s Grindhouse Inglorious Bastards Mad Max free Road John Wick
the action can definitely be in the conversation the story not so much right those movies that I
just mentioned the World building the character development the pelling nature to those stories
days this film is not here for story y'all again I appreciate the Simplicity of this film but at
the same time it is almost too simple of a film to really kind of keep me engaged with the main
narrative again it's a simple A to B plot but there's not a lot of meat on the bone as well
as there's not any to know character development in this film our character starts off at one point
and he ends in the exact same way and all the other characters around him aren't really doing
that much there is a subplot involving these women that are captured and kidnapped that has
a little bit of a payoff but I wish we would have spent a little bit more time on the humanness of
that particular story mixing it into our main characters Revenge story so I wish that there
was more compelling engagement narrative to this film and also some more character development so
that's really my biggest great with this film it takes it down a couple knocks but I will say kind
of pivoting over to some nitpicks while I am a fan of 80s kind of can't be over the top action movies
there is a threshold when you can kind of turn off the brain and suspend this belief but once
you get past that threshold it kind of takes me out of the film especially totally speaking where
again there is some ground in this some reality to the situation at hand but then we have within
seconds or minutes later we get to this over the topness of the character surviving in ways that
you would just be like what how did this if there was no and you'll know what I'm talking about when
you see the film when the character finds itself in a really interesting situation if there was no
needles or Nails in that pose there's no way the character's surviving so there are moments where
I'm just like ah kind of takes me out of the grittiness of the story that they were trying
to tell so that's more of a nitpick my biggest issue was really no story and really no character
development but besides that y'all before I give you all my score and empty this film is worth
checking out if you stuck around to this point in review I really appreciate you just a reminder to
hit the like button if you're enjoying yourself share today's review and consider subscribing to
the channel overall I would definitely say this is a call back to those grind house 80s action
films that can be over the top a little bit unbelievable without points but at the end
of the day it was super creative very violent and I was here for all the action now while yes
the story wasn't that great and there's really no character development at all I lean more on
the positives of this film so I'm gonna give it a 3.8 out of 5. it would have got to that four that
four and a half but again the story wasn't there and there was no character development I wish
the characters would have interacted more I'm referring to our main character and the women
on the bus but overall y'all I had a good time with this film and I would say if you have the
opportunity to see it come April 28th give it a chance this is the quintessential Saturday
afternoon Sunday Tuesday matinee film that I think you all will enjoy in the theater and
if you don't get the chance to see it in theater when it is available to rent or stream definitely
give it a watch when you do let me know in the comments what you all thought your Pros your cons
what worked what didn't work and what were some of your favorite elements about this film thank
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