{"id":54435,"date":"2023-12-01T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2038384"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:00:50","slug":"woos-silent-night-will-delight-directors-hardcore-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/woos-silent-night-will-delight-directors-hardcore-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo\u2019s \u2018Silent Night\u2019 Will Delight Director\u2019s Hardcore Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Woo\u2019s \u201cSilent Night\u201d is his first American movie in 20 years, after the so-so \u201cPaycheck\u201d (2003) and the unfortunate 2018 Chinese thriller \u201cManhunt,\u201d neither of which were worthy curtain calls for one of the greatest living action movie directors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woo\u2019s worldwide success led to some notable hit and misses; for every \u201cRed Cliff\u201d (2008), there was a \u201cWindtalkers\u201d (2002) that undermined his momentum, not that Woo had anything to prove, not really.<\/p>\n

Most would consider Woo\u2019s \u201cThe Killer\u201d (1989) to be his all-time hall of famer, though I\u2019m happy to argue that his \u201cHard-Boiled\u201d (1992), the greatest action movie I\u2019ve ever seen, is much better. Long before he made stateside smashes \u201cHard Target\u201d (1993), \u201cFace\/Off\u201d (1997) and \u201cMission: Impossible II\u201d (2000), his three finest American movies, Woo was already an established Hong Kong legend.<\/p>\n

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Woo made a wide variety of films, including a musical (!) and even an early Jackie Chan film called \u201cThe Hand of Death\u201d (1976), but his action movies were astonishing. Note those elegant uses of slow motion, symbolism (ah yes, those doves!), mythic depictions of good vs. evil, explorations of character duality and violence staged as visual poetry.<\/p>\n

Woo\u2019s best films exude an eccentric brilliance, landing somewhere between a violent ballet and a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Despite the body of work, it appeared unfortunate that Woo\u2019s final action movie in the U.S. is arguably the least exciting, action-lite movie to ever star Ben Affleck and open on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Twenty years later, we now have \u201cSilent Night,\u201d a one-hour forty-four-minute demonstration that, at age 77, Woo hasn\u2019t lost his touch.<\/p>\n

Not one single bit.<\/p>\n

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Joel Kinnaman stars as Godlock, a father who witnesses his son being shot as a gang war erupts into a flurry of bullets that fatally strikes his backyard. After pursuing the perpetrators, Godlock himself is wounded and  spends extensive time in the hospital recovering.<\/p>\n

The agonizing grief Godlock and his wife Saya (Catalina Sandino Moreno<\/a>) experience drains their marriage dry. Saya is aiming to heal, while Godlock plots revenge. As he regains his strength and trains for a violent rampage of vengeance, Godlock has permanently lost his voice.<\/p>\n

While the protagonist never speaks a word in the film, the movie also eliminates dialog. There are moments where ambient noise, radio broadcasts and single-word responses chime in, but otherwise, this is a dialog-free movie with a passionate leading turn from Kinnaman, dynamic sound effects and an emotional score by Marco Beltrami to drive the narrative.<\/p>\n

As movie gimmicks go, it doesn\u2019t always work.<\/p>\n

The lack of dialog doesn\u2019t make the film faster and results in many scenes where I wished the characters would speak up and tell us what\u2019s going on. While things become clearer as the film progresses, there are still plot holes (how does Godlock get access to those mug shots, let alone an empty office in a police station with key evidence and what is the sympathetic cop\u2019s angle in the case?) and somewhat vague moments.<\/p>\n

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In theory, Woo\u2019s actions-speak-louder-than-words approach to a movie like this makes sense, and the story is much more direct and simpler than anything in \u201cJohn Wick\u201d or \u201cTaken.\u201d More important than the consistency of the gimmick is how good the action is – while Woo leans more on CGI than he ever did in his earlier years, the staging, pacing and impact of the action is still sensational.<\/p>\n

\u201cSilent Night\u201d is sure to be controversial, as this is more a \u201cDeath Wish\u201d vigilante crime story than a fanciful crime opera like \u201cJohn Wick\u201d or any recent Liam Neeson shoot-em-up. The gangster villains are stereotypical, one note and easily disposable, and the violence, to put it mildly, is always explicit.<\/p>\n

One could argue that the one-note gang bangers are par for the course for this genre, but you\u2019d have to go back to \u201cDeath Wish 3\u201d or other grimy crime thrillers from the Cannon Films vault for comparison. In ways both good and bad, Woo has made an old-fashioned revenge thriller.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give \u201cSilent Night\u201d this – who would have thought that Woo would make a nastier, pulpier, gorier and more disreputable vengeance action movie than David Fincher\u2019s recent \u201cThe Killer<\/a>\u201d? Comparing the two, which are both brilliantly made, Woo\u2019s film is so rough, it makes Fincher\u2019s movie a Disney+ title by comparison.<\/p>\n

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Woo\u2019s signatures are on hand, like the coolest way possible to put on a flowing leather jacket (\u201cFace\/Off\u201d), the image of a bird to signify purity (too many to cite), a murdered child that pushes the plot forward (\u201cFace\/Off\u201d again), a hero who becomes a villain (Woo\u2019s \u201cThe Killer\u201d) and massive auto explosions (\u201cHard-Boiled\u201d), to cite a few.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also some awkward sentimentality (a less admirable quality to \u201cThe Killer\u201d) and, obviously, if you\u2019ve never liked Woo\u2019s fanciful and highly demonstrative action movies, then this won\u2019t work for you.<\/p>\n

I admire what Woo and Kinnaman have achieved here, and the action is stunning. While \u201cHard-Boiled\u201d remains untouchable for me, \u201cSilent Night\u201d is a strong reminder that, when it comes to gunmen flying through the air, while bullets graze everything in their path as birds fly by in slow motion, Woo is the master of this genre.<\/p>\n

Three Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

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