There was no obvious need for a sequel at the end of “Sisu.” Jalmari Helander’s 2023 historical thriller follows a grizzled Finnish man who battles a crew of Nazis trying to steal his gold and finishes the job so definitively that he probably accounts for a solid 30 percent of the German casualties in the Lapland War. But when your protagonist is so hard to kill that his enemies call him “The Immortal,” it would be a shame to waste the franchise potential when so many other nefarious actors occupied the world stage in the 1940s. It’s not clear where else the series has to go — both in terms of the character’s journey and the fact that Finland only had so many geopolitical foes in the 1940s — but if the story ends here, our journey with Aatami will have been a satisfying one.
Author: Christian Zilko
Published at: 2025-11-19 22:00:00
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