Sisu: Road to Revenge

Story:

Jalmari Helander is the writer and director of the 2025 action war movie Sisu: Road to Revenge. It is Sisu’s (2022) follow-up. Richard Brake and Stephen Lang join the cast, and Jorma Tommila returns as Aatami Korpi.

In the follow-up, Aatami Korpi dismantles his former family home, packs it onto a truck, and is resolved to rebuild it somewhere secure in their honour. However, the man who murdered Korpi’s family returns determined to complete the task—that is, to kill the renowned former soldier by any means necessary. Eric Charles is in charge of Sony’s Stage 6 Films, while Petri Jokiranta and Mike Goodridge of Subzero Film Entertainment and Good Chaos, respectively, are producing the movie. Filming was done in Estonia instead of Lapland as it was in the last movie.

In the sequel, Aatami Korpi decides to reconstruct his former family house somewhere safe in their honour after dismantling it and loading it onto a truck. But the man who killed Korpi’s family comes back with the intention of finishing the job, which is to kill the well-known ex-soldier by any means necessary. The film is being produced by Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos and Petri Jokiranta of Subzero Film Entertainment, while Eric Charles oversees Sony’s Stage 6 Films. Unlike the last film, which was filmed in Lapland, this one was filmed in Estonia.

Plot

As part of the post-World War II peace settlement, Finland gave the Soviet Union the territory of Karelia in 1944. Two years later, Finnish former commando Aatami Korpi—known as “the man who refuses to die”—crosses the border into Karelia, where his family was ruthlessly slain during the conflict, following his finding of gold. He is resolved to reconstruct his old family home somewhere secure in their honour, so he disassembles it and loads it onto a truck. The man who killed Aatami’s family, Igor Draganov, is freed from a Siberian jail by KGB agents to kill the renowned ex-soldier by whatever means necessary after the Red Army learns of Aatami’s arrival on their territory.

Draganov leads a small detachment of soldiers to confront Aatami as he moves west towards the Finnish border. Ignorant of his part in his loved ones’ deaths, Aatami murders the troops but spares Draganov. Draganov gives the command for a group of motorcyclists and aircraft to kill Aatami. After fighting his way past the Soviet forces, Aatami and his truck are eventually driven down a cliff into the ocean by a bomber. After recovering the remnants of his house, Aatami builds a makeshift raft out of the logs and sails back to land, where he comes across an abandoned tank. He launches the tank over a Soviet border post using a mound of dynamite, but Aatami is seriously hurt and the vehicle is destroyed. Before Draganov captures him, he buries a knife blade in his injured flesh.

After transporting Aatami on a train headed for Siberia, Draganov tortures him and admits to him his part in the killings of Aatami’s family. Enraged by the identification of his family’s murderer, Aatami escapes captivity, grabs his knife, and travels through the train in the direction of the front, killing several Soviet soldiers. After hearing the disturbance, Draganov kills his KGB handlers, uncouples the rear rail cars, and takes the Aatami prize. In order to catch up to Draganov, Aatami locates a ballistic missile on the train, ignites it, and uses it as a temporary booster.

In their last battle, Draganov prevails, but Aatami kills him by detaching the still-active missile from the train and firing it into him. After his family is punished, Aatami recovers his house and uses the rail car to safely return it across the Finnish border. When Aatami returns to Finland to restore his house, a number of Finnish men approach him and offer to help, to Aatami’s silent appreciation.