A former soldier turned gold-hunter takes on the Nazis in this satisfyingly grisly but surprisingly solemn WW2 action story that invokes Finland’s tragic history.
When I went into the Sisu screening I knew only that it was a Finnish film, so was expecting an arthouse drama, maybe featuring bearded men in nice fisherman knits and herrings being salted, rather than this hyper-violent, viciously bloody exploitation flick from which I may never recover. It is a swift 90 minutes and
Talk about a long gestation. Written by Robert Rodriguez in 2002, made two years ago and not released till now for various reasons, Hypnotic has all the hallmarks of an overcooked disaster.