With John Woo’s name attached to Silent Night as director, things were looking good and other than the occasional overabundance of doves his sentimentality usually runs red. Not Santa Red either. With Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad and For All Mankind) named as lead actor, things also looked good in the action stakes.

Kinnaman plays Godlock a man so tormented by horrendous events in his past that when he seeks revenge on the perpetrators, you know he is going to be all in. With Woo helping to paint the canvas behind him things will certainly be over the top and should be far from route holiday histrionics. In the action stakes things live up to expectations, surprise-wise not so much.

The storyline is extremely predictable and features few surprises but this does little to stifle the fun. It’s like the relative that always brings sub-par dishes to family affairs but never lets you down in regards to fluids that are inebriant. The connection to that major of major holiday is tenuous at best and that is just the way we like them around here.
Rob Hudson
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While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son’s death.

Full of Woo’s signature style, Silent Night redefines the action genre with visceral, thrill-a-minute storytelling.

Silent night stars Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Harold Torres, Vinny O’Brien and will be released in Aussie cinemas December 7!
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