The troop happen upon them there whilst looking for supplies as they try to find gold, allegedly hidden somewhere in a village by the locals. They go about brutally treating the locals to find clues as to where it is, so they can get rich and flee.
In the meantime, they snatch the young woman (for the pleasure of the senior officer) and out hero is out to rescue her, stop the troop from their bad deeds and doll out some punishment of his own in the process! It’s complete bloody mayhem and chaos from start to finish, though with more of a storyline than Sisu.
The senior officer is not really very convincing. He looks like an actor who has been made up to look as menacing as possible (with face-mask and all hiding half a hideous face beneath) but isn’t quite pulling it off. The job, that is - not the mask! The actor used just doesn’t look nasty enough and is unable to hold himself in the remarkable way that Christoph Waltz did as the officer in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, chilling the viewer to the bone. Still, I guess there was a much smaller budget here!
Anyway, our soldier’s family has been killed except for his daughter who he needs ultimately to rescue. In the process, there’s a kind of half-baked love story going on as the chemistry develops between him and the young girl. All of this is just a cloak really to distract from the violence and disaster going on around the characters culminating in a ludicrously over-the-top showdown (High Noon?) and bloody finale before we find out if there’s a Hollywood Ending or not!
It’s all good fun, worth a watch - it’s in German, so with dubbing or subtitles (at least if you watch it on Netflix) - but don’t expect too much quality! A good romp, as they say. Apparently it’s called ‘Nazisplotation’ (like Sisu) where none of it matters as it’s ‘only’ Nazi soldiers being blitzed, suggestion being that they’re not people. A debate for another day.
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