Kevin C. Wong

Movie - Attack on Finland (2022) [+]

Attack on Finland (Omerta 6/12 outside the USA) is an action/thriller movie set in Finland and Belorussia. During a winter gala event in the presidential palace a group of terrorists attack and kidnap the Finnish president, an important NATO general with his bodyguard and some other people.

The response team includes Max Tanner (Jasper Pääkkönen) and the bodyguard is his former partner Sylvia Madsen (Nanna Blondell) when they were both seconded to EU Interpol special forces or something like that. The setting moves from the palatial hostage setting to a Belorussian abandoned military base where the bad guys take their hostages. Tanner has to solo it because Finland doesn't want to start a war with Belorussia but Madsen is also not going to passively remain a hostage forever...

I'm quite impressed with the visuals and cinematography. It's very polished and very European. Good amount of explosions and destruction for a $10M movie. It's a complete story and doesn't set up a sequel but it also doesn't, like, kill every character and preclude a sequel which I'd be willing to see.