Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Matti
2006
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Director: Aleksi Mäkelä
Cast: Jasper Pääkkönen, Peter Franzen, Juha Veijonen, Elina Hietala

A biopic of sorts about Matti Nykänen, arguably the finest ski jumper in the history of the sport. The film skips the parts that make him matter, namely his sport achievements, and takes extreme poetic license to guide us through the downs and downs of his tumultuous private life. The names and events have been changed to make his story flow, but, ironically, there is no narrative whatsoever. This a long and boring series of standalone humiliations, all of which seem to start with the hero hungover or beaten up, or both at the same time.