Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
Acting
Sam Jackson commits 110% to this absolutely bananas premise.
Practical Effects
Practical explosion effects that feel charmingly handmade.
Direction
Helander's Finnish deadpan meets American action cheese.
Director
Jalmari Helander
Samuel L. Jackson
US President William Alan Moore
Onni Tommila
Oskari
Ray Stevenson
Morris
Victor Garber
Vice President
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Hazar
Ted Levine
General Underwood
Jorma Tommila
Tapio
Risto Salmi
Hamara
Felicity Huffman
CIA Director
Jim Broadbent
Herbert
Rauno Juvonen
Safari Pilot
Jaymes Butler
Otis
Jean-Luc Julien
Clay
Erik Markus Schuetz
Stanley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jalmari Helander expanded this from a 2010 short film; it's essentially his love letter to 80s Amblin adventures filtered through Finnish absurdism.
The scene where Jackson emerges from the escape pod in a suit, in the Finnish wilderness, is peak 'we're really doing this' cinema.
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