I really don’t like the last of those options. That’s just a pretty forced aspect of the movie.

So, Aatami is returning to his farm left behind the new border after the peace treaty with Soviet Union. He is planning to take down his old house and move what he can from it back to Finland. However, Soviets catch a wind of this and fetch the man who killed Aatami’s family to finish the job. A very violent chase ensues. However, considering that Aatami has only an old beat-up truck laden with wood, the chase isn’t that much about whether the Soviets can catch him.

Early on I was worried the whole movie was going to be in this truck, which would not have been good. After all, if the motivation for the main character is to get the wood back to Finland, having him ditch them would just not be very good storytelling. They do manage to work around this, however. In a kind of forced way, but it was fine.

The budget is around double compared to the first movie, which is still minuscule in the big picture (at 11 million euros), but they make it work. There are still cool action pieces all around. However, Jorma Tommila is pretty old at 66. There are limitations to what he can do. They do manage to work around that pretty well, but it also kind of shows in the set pieces they actually do.

They also lean more on the humor than the first movie or maybe I just didn’t read it as humor couple of years ago. Certain sections even reminded me of movies like Hot Shots. Was that the intention? I can’t really say, because most of the movie is not quite that obvious about it.

There is still something quintessentially Finnish about the movie. Like the first movie, there’s very limited amount of Finnish. Actually one line, but even that line manages to invoke something about Finnish mentality that it actually made me cry (although I do that quite a bit at movies).

All in all, this was not as good as the first one, but still worth a watch, if the first one was to your liking.