Finnish military farces were never too well-made, and this is no exception. Undoubtedly it is also usually very enjoyable director Roland af Hälltröm's worst effort, an absolute routine comedy. Farce is built around a millionaire recruit who tries to get away of every unpleasant task by hiring some other conscript to do it for him. Not counting the title character Lasse Pöysti - the basic naive character of our national cinema - the actors are either bad or misused. Especially the end is a huge disappointment: as soon as there has some kind of tension developed between the characters the whole story is rushed within few minutes into a happy conclusion.
