Having found them, he’s faced with a transportation problem. Lapland is a lonely place, but Korpi has toughed it out in this eerily pretty middle of nowhere, his dog his only companion, in pursuit of the land’s natural riches.
“Sisu” starts with a history primer, then immediately sets the rest of the film’s tone with a movie Western tradition: a title card triumphantly proclaiming humble prospector Aatami Korpi’s ( Jorma Tommila) discovery of the mother lode. Taiga and scrubland how exciting! In Helander’s body of work, it’s hardly a change at all he’s set his other two features, “ Rare Exports” and “ Big Game,” in Finland’s northerly Lapland region, too, but the old familiarities of WWII movies are freshened up against that sparse, unforgiving backdrop. “Sisu” offers what the WWII movie subgenre needs: a minor change in scenery. READ MORE: ‘The Covenant’ Review: Guy Ritchie & Jake Gyllenhaal Team Up For An Engaging War Thriller About Bonds, Brotherhood & Paying Spiritual Debts We’ll just have to go out of the way to find them, like, say, to Lapland, the setting of Jalmari Helander’s “ Sisu,” a wartime action thriller of bloody excess where location is everything. This is a mildly annoying habit that the movies will inevitably self-correct the world happens to be pretty big and the war was fought across all its corners, so we’ll never run out of stories to tell about it. For wearisome reasons, the World War II cinema canon focuses mostly on the same handful of European nations - Germany, France, Italy, and England - and spares little room for others.
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