Silent Night

Silent Night

A tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. 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.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 104 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Crime, Thrillers
  • Stars: Anthony Giulietti, John Pollack, Harold Torres, Vinny O'Brien, Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Yoko Hamamura, Catalina Sandino Moreno
  • Director: John Woo
 Comments
  • pow_whitelightning - 20 June 2024
    John Woo is back!! But nobody seems to care?
    Why the hate? I went to see this movie days before Christmas 2023 and I was all alone in the theatre like a private screening which was cool but I can't believe it wasn't packed. Many people saw a boring film with no dialogue and what I saw was the most unique action film I ever seen, truly a work of art. Many compare this film to The Punisher or Death Wish but the real difference is this man was not just preparing for revenge and war this man was preparing die to avenge the death of his son. That one difference makes the films stakes much higher and much more tragic. I highly recommend it!!!!
  • p-the-demon - 3 May 2024
    A journey through the Woo-past!!!
    Personally, I can't understand the negative reviews. Silent Night is like a colorful mix of John Woo's earlier works. Is that bad? Not for me. Woo always stood for melodrama paired with grandiose and bloody action where logic always falls by the wayside stayed. But this isn't about logic either. It's about family, loss and revenge. Simple and poignant. Heroic Bloodshed meets New school is how I would describe it. Okay a lot of things are exaggerated in the action scenes, but that didn't appeal to me least disturbed, because Woo has always crossed the threshold into logical action at some point in his films and at a certain point simply unleashes a death ballet of blood and tears. I like Silent Night both in the action and in the quiet scenes and I have to admit that I had a tear in my eye at the end.
  • Fledermausmannwagen - 8 March 2024
    Good action film from John Woo.
    I think the rating could have been higher.

    An excellent vigelante action movie where the father kills gangbangers to avenge his son. The plot doesn't try to be more than it is. You can easily find something to criticize because the movie is a fairy-tale. Nobody can become a super killer, ace driver an gunslinging brawler in a year, no matter how much he trains. Hell, most of us would need a decade to master even one of these activities. And protagonist would have been killed immediately if it was realistic. But we all know that and it's not trying to be realistic.

    There is no agenda, no shaky camera, no tacticool stuff, no boring badly written dialogue because nobody really talks much in the movie and the portagonist is a mute due to a throat wound. At the core this is an action film in the spirit of the 90s and made really well.

    I missed a movies like this against the slew of John Wick clones where protagonist twitches like a commando with Parkinsons or movies that claim to be action where the whole lenght is just talking and bs plotdrama with 5 minutes of action. Find me 1 person who enjoyed John Wick for it's pretentious plot lmao. And i didn't even enjoy the action there that much.

    Ok, done. I liked the movie and if you like 90-early 2000s action films you would like it too. Let's hope this won't be the last one from John Woo.