![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In their struggle, the film piles bodies as high as a Rambo death count. With the war nearing its end and the specter of war crimes looming large, Bruno sees the gold as his ticket out of future punishment. That information, however, isn’t enough to deter the German company’s savage commander Bruno ( Aksel Hennie). Similar to Rambo, he also carries an unlikely resume: Korpi is a former special forces soldier so prolific in his murdering of Russians during the Winter War (he purportedly has killed 300 of them to avenge the murder of his wife and daughter) that they consider him an unbeatable ghost. The man of few words character that Tommila portrays is certainly cut from the same cloth as Clint Eastwood's The Man with No Name. It would be easy to watch writer/director Jalmari Helander’s viciously bloody flick for its exploitation cinema, spaghetti Western, and 1980s action roots, which owes its riches to Sergio Leone’s films and “Rambo: First Blood,” respectively. Despite his best efforts, the soldiers discover his loot, setting off a fight for the mined prize. The Nazis are hauling a kind of “treasure” (though these captives are not treated as such), a cadre of Finnish women. ![]() Determination is exactly what Korpi will need when, on his way home with his fortune of nuggets hanging on his horse’s saddlebag, he comes across a band of sullen Nazis. The word “sisu” is nearly untranslatable, but its closest meaning suggests an unbreakable determination, one that seems to even stave off death. ![]()
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