Rumble

A bunch of over-aged Finnish teddy boys are doing what such people usually do: completely nothing except attempting to be cool. Of course everything will go wrong as the boys, or just childish grown-up men, want to make their own way. The film has no other point, or plot, unless you count that buying a pizza as such. Rock'n roll music, bad English (one should ask why?), no apparent good manners and some d-class Fonzie outfits will rumble on the scene for a brief time and a good thing is that the viewer is saved from the worst. What the viewer will get is a road movie that remotely resembles Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys films. Here's one movie for you who don't look for too much sense in everything.

This is a must for at least all finnish movie fans (with subtitles, why not for everybody). Rumble is by far the funniest finnish movie I've ever seen. About an hour long Rumble is categorized here as an adventure movie, and that may be, but it's also a road movie and a hilarious comedy. This film has been a huge success among my friends and the catchphrases have come to be very popular and ever so funny as we sometimes yell: "Dillinger! Where are you!?". Having said all these things I have to point out that even the actors give a memorable performance, which is, sad to say, somewhat rare in finnish cinema (at least for me, anyway). Vesa-Matti Loiri and Tommi Korpela among others deliver as greasy-haired (George Clooney in O Brother Where Art Thou, anyone?), cry-baby dress code characters in search for long lost Dillinger. To know who is this Dillinger, I suggest you try to find out yourselves. Summa summarum, watch this film (if you can get it anywhere) with a bunch of friends after couple of beers and you're guaranteed to laugh your nickers off!