Aleksi Mäkelä, the director of the excellent Häjyt and Pahat Pojat, offers us an hour and a half of great and stylish entertainment. The title character Vares (Juha Veijonen) is a Finnish detective who sets out to help a woman named Eeva (Laura Malmivaara) in her dangerous pursuit of Russian mob money. Based on the book of the Finnish novelist Reijo Mäki, this movie really boasts great characters. Vares himself is a good guy, mostly hanging in his favourite pub with his boozing buddy Luusalmi in his spare time. Samuli Edelmann is a tough cop working on both sides of the law. Then there's the hilarious killer duo Hillosilmä-Munck and Tetsuo Sinkkonen. They and their jokes are the funniest part of the movie. Director Jari Halonen is surely one of the most devilish criminals in the Finnish movie history in the role of Karl E. Miesmann. The good supporting cast also includes Minna Turunen and Santeri Kinnunen. The language in the movie is very rough but entertaining. It offers many legendary slogans. Not just a detective story but also a black comedy and good old-fashioned action movie as well this one's probably the finest pop-culture movie made in Finland in the 21st century.