Brutal R-Rated Sisu Sequel Shocks With a Perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Still weeks from its U.S. release, Sisu: Road to Revenge—the brutal, R-rated sequel to 2022’s Sisu—stormed 2025 Fantastic Fest and sits at a flawless 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, leaving audiences hungry for more.
File this under: the little Finnish franchise that refuses to die politely. Sisu: Road to Revenge hasn’t even hit U.S. theaters yet, but it just tore through 2025’s Fantastic Fest and walked out with critics handing it a spotless 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes, perfect. For now.
What this sequel actually is
Writer-director Jalmari Helander is back, along with Jorma Tommila as Aatami Korpi, the near-mythic Finnish ex-soldier from 2022’s Sisu. This time, Aatami returns to the home where his family was slaughtered during World War II — not to rebuild, but to tear the place down. That grim house call tips off the Red Army general who murdered them, and pretty soon you’ve got a cross-country pursuit that’s basically pure vendetta fuel. It’s a clean setup, and kind of a wild one: he goes back specifically to dismantle the house, and that choice sparks the whole chase.
Festival buzz and the 'this thing rips' consensus
Fantastic Fest crowds ate it up, and early reviews are very much in 'more of this, please' mode. The tone checklist: gory, inventive, often deadpan funny, and unapologetically big on carnage. The action apparently leans into long stretches of near-silent mayhem — a stylistic flex that pays off with clever, brutal gags as Aatami keeps thinning out Red Army squads.
'A post-WWII blend of Mad Max: Fury Road and a Fast & Furious sequel' that serves up a 'ludicrous and punishing' continuation of the first film’s action-first indulgence. — Matt Donato, IGN Movies
- Slant Magazine’s Rocco T. Thompson compares large chunks of the movie to a hilariously gory silent film, with Aatami mowing down soldiers in ways that are both inventive and unexpectedly funny.
- Loud and Clear Reviews’ Roberto Tyler Ortiz basically calls it a buffet of pure, unabashed ultraviolence — exactly the meal you order when that’s what you’re craving.
- Dexerto’s Chris Tilly praises the wall-to-wall action and creative kills, but points out there’s a real emotional vein running through it too, with Aatami’s personal journey landing a message about the futility of war.
About that 100%...
As of right now, Sisu: Road to Revenge is sitting at a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s already better than the first Sisu’s critic score (a very strong 94%), and the big question is whether audiences will love it even more than the original’s 88% approval. We’ll find out soon enough: the sequel is currently set to open in theaters on November 21, 2025.
Bottom line: expect another lean, mean, R-rated splatter-saga with a surprisingly beating heart. If the first movie felt like a folk legend told with a stick of dynamite, this one sounds like the part where the legend gets even taller.