This Upcoming 2025 Film Is The Greatest Motion Sequel Since John Wick 4 [Fantastic Fest]

Motion sequels, like most film sequels, have a tendency to simply depend on repetition. Now that the unique concept was properly obtained, it is simple to fall into the entice of simply doing extra of the identical, however greater and costlier. One of the best sequels, nonetheless, are people who acknowledge you possibly can’t simply do the identical factor once more and go in wildly new instructions. That is why “Mad Max: Fury Street” is broadly thought-about not solely probably the greatest sequels ever made, however probably the greatest motion pictures ever, interval. Likewise, “John Wick: Chapter 4” is lower from that very same fabric of not attempting to do the identical factor however moderately take the unique idea to new heights through considerably totally different tones, and can be a film that — like “Fury Street” — appears to be like not possible to make with out killing half the stunt crew.

Now, in 2025, we’ve one other motion sequel that may be part of these two in the way it takes a wild likelihood that pays off large time. It is a interval struggle motion film set on a Finnish Fury Street, and a live-action Bugs Bunny film. It’s Jalmari Helander’s “Sisu: Street to Revenge” (although its Finnish title, “Si2u,” is stylized means higher), the sequel to the kick-ass Nazi-killing movie from 2022 starring Jorma Tommila.

Helander reportedly refused to make a sequel despite the fact that Sony initially pressured him to take action, till he got here up with an concept he was happy with. In “Street to Revenge,” we commerce Nazis for Soviets, as Finland enters the post-WWII period by shedding an enormous chunk of its territory to the Soviet Union. The movie follows Aatami Korpi (Tommila), who misplaced his household through the struggle and whose house is now a part of a unique nation. Korpi units out to dismantle his dwelling and take it with him as he crosses the border. The issue is that the Soviets actually don’t love the concept of “the person who refuses to die” simply being on the market respiratory and provoking hope and rebellious sentiment amongst the Finns, so that they ship Igor Draganov (Stephen Lang), the Pink Military officer who killed Korpi’s household, to extinguish the legend he helped create.

From there, we get a brutal, over-the-top, balls-to-the-wall entertaining struggle movie that is very very similar to “Fury Street” however with far more Soviets.

“Sisu: Street to Revenge” wastes no time in placing pedal to the steel and begins dropping our bodies off like flies. The whole first act of the film is actually one large chase scene by means of the desolate Finnish countryside, an excellent cacophony of violence and demise on the Fury Street. Korpi (accompanied by his devoted canine) drives a truck full of the logs that when shaped his household dwelling, littering the street with the corpses of the Pink Military troopers who attempt to shoot at him or blow him up, with contrived methods of disposing of these troopers. What begins with foot troopers and Molotov cocktails offers solution to motorcyclists with machine weapons, tanks, and even planes capturing and dropping bombs on Korpi and his canine.

Like “Fury Street,” this can be a relentlessly fast-paced film the place every set piece is extra elaborate and spectacular than the final. Is it completely ludicrous? Completely. At one level, Korpi takes a aircraft down utilizing nothing however a handful of items of wooden, and it’s the most unimaginable, air-fist-bum-worthy second of 2025 to this point.

However what really makes this film particular is the way it does not simply go for pure “Fury Street,” however takes that idea and makes use of it as a launching pad for even crazier set items. That is as a result of Korpi is not driving in a truck the complete film, however ultimately trades autos and the film phases epic battles on tanks, and ultimately a practice full of armed Pink Military troopers.

The motion in “Sisu: Street to Revenge” by no means feels repetitive and by no means feels something lower than rad as hell. In that regard, it is rather very similar to “John Wick: Chapter 4,” which used motion to inform its story visually and which provided a wide selection of set items. By the point Korpi begins killing Soviet troopers on a practice to Siberia, bloodied and mangled however with inhuman dedication, it isn’t simply the bloody and violent climax of the story, but additionally a 3rd act full of historic context for many years’ value of Finnish/Russian battle and the non-public motivation and backstory of Korpi.

There is no such thing as a cause why “Sisu: Street to Revenge” ought to work. Having a protagonist that the viewers is aware of is mainly immortal might simply destroy any stakes doable, however the film manages to beat any doubts to ship the perfect motion film of 2025 and the perfect motion sequel since “John Wick: Chapter 4.”