By Drew Taylor

At the beginning of 2023’s “Sisu,” the title is described as “a Finnish word that cannot be translated. It means a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination.”

The same could be said of the original movie, which has now blossomed into a blood-splattered franchise with this week’s release of “Sisu: Road to Revenge” (overseas, it has the much better title of “Si2u”) through Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems label. It opens opposite Universal’s decidedly not violent “Wicked: For Good” in a piece of serious counter-programming.