Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Let's be realistic.

Absolutely amazing

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The movie "Ambush" is a very interesting movie although I can't still understand now in the plot what was the relationship between Finland and Germany in the second world war.By the fact I have some Finnish friends who couldn't explain it to me at all in a rational way, but it seems they were alliated to the Nazis?? I am sorry but I am not very implicated in these items about second world war, but the movie doesn't explain what was happening exactly, as the russians appear as murderer invaders in a out of time dimension war and also the guns used by the Finnish looked from the I world war. The Nazis and their collaboration with the finish are not ever mentioned.Instead of this the movie is very good filmed, with a lot of masculine and feminine cakes, and specially the music is super, some years ago I bought a CD from the finish label Ondine,called "Aurora Borealis", and I was very impressed about the music of this movie, , as it was never shown in Spanish cinemas I thought I never were able to see this movie, until I bought the DVD in a second hand shop last week in Madrid...incredible! I repeat that the movie is super. Sorry for my bad English!

So you have just seen Talvisota (Winter war) or Tuntematon Sotilas (Unknown soldier) and you think this quite new Finnish war movie must be at least as good? Then it will be a disappointment.You haven't seen any other Finnish war movie yet? Then you may like this. Filming is beautiful and there is lot of action but still its only a love story in war. And thats not the only Hollywood cliché there, like you can read from other comments. I think Olli the director was not ready to make realistic war movie, framom framsta linjen (etulinjan edessä) was better movie and thats maybe because of experience of the director. Its not showing the Finnish fathers going to the battlefield because they need to keep their independence. Its not showing how they fight with poor equipments and realize the horror of the war. Its just a movie about bicycle squad going behind the enemy lines and then running through it and shooting like mad mans without any sense. (Oh yeah and there was this love story too.) These soldiers were winter war veterans? ... maybe they got shell shocked badly.I prefer Talvisota, thats the best war movie ever made.

It's a shame they made a "Hollywood" movie out of it. Even though it does tell something about the situation Finland was in during that time, the movie looks like one made in Hollywood.The battle scenes were unrealistic with the characters heroically running in the forest even though the air is full of bullets and kill many of the Russians while at it (pretty much like a Rambo or Commando but not that far out). Also, the love story plays too big a role in the movie.I don't mean it's a bad movie but if you want to really get an idea of the Winter War or the Continuation War, try to see The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas, 1955) or The Winter War (Talvisota) or read the books. Of the American depictions of war (in films), only Band of Brothers comes close to what The Unknown Soldier and The Winter War deliver.

I saw this film at a Finnish cinema, with only swedish subtitles. As I can only speak a small amount of Finnish and no Swedish, I expected it to be an uncomfortable film to watch, but I found it uniquely interesting to watch a war film in which everyone spoke their own language, instead of an American with an accent. I would recommend this film to anyone.