I should’ve known it from the moment I saw the action kick off. Two jet ski riders and a guy who is driving…not skipping across, like we’ve seen, but actually driving…a snowmobile on water. Like it’s a normal freaking thing…it’s just another day in Lahti, or Kuopio, or Kajaani, nothing to see here. Intended to be a Hollywood style chase scene, what we really have is a Finn on a sled, on water,  telling physics to eff itself. At several points we were expecting to see the snowmobile dip just a little bit too far below the water and risk hydrolock, but the rider, Joni Maununen, does a superb job of keeping everything together and right at sea level.

I’m calling it right now: the only reason you don’t see Finnish actors in American action movies is due to the language barrier. That’s it. And that’s sad. If Arnold Schwarzenegger can overcome a thick Austrian accent and do all that he did, certainly a wiry Finn with little regard for personal safety can make it big as an action star.