There is no better time than the end of the year when families from all over the world get together to celebrate christmas with lights, carols, and movies. With a foul mouth and a penchant for alcohol, David Harbour—best known for his role as Hopper on Netflix's Stranger Things—will star in a new kind of holiday movie coming out this year from Universal Pictures. This commemorative mash-up of Die Hard and home Alone is directed by Tommy Wirkola from a screenplay by Pat Casey and josh Miller. Violent Night features Harbour unleashed on home thieves with a sledgehammer, striking a wonderful blend between suspense and action-comedy. The movie is a violent good time with vicious action scenes and gory body horror.

Old Saint Nick, played by David Harbour, is getting close to the end of his tenure. Mr. Claus unwillingly continues with his christmas duties despite losing confidence in people and growing weary of stuffing the stockings of obnoxious children. He gets a severe surprise when he goes to the Lightstone home, where Gertrude (Beverly D'Angelo) hosts her daughter Alva (Edi Patterson), son Jason (Alex Hassell), and their close relatives. A group of mercenaries led by john Leguizamo's "Mr. Scrooge" have burst into the Lightstone mansion in search of $300,000,000. Santa Claus, with a little assistance from the brave, good-hearted little Trudy, appears to be the only one who can save them (Leah Brady).

The holiday film Violent Night is not like other ones. The violence and adversarial family dynamic in Wirkola's film are unlike anything viewers have witnessed in a long time. The christmas movie, from the makers of Nobody and john Wick, features intense action sequences with excellent camera work and choreography to match. There are just the appropriate number of corny one-liners and jaw-dropping destruction in this example of the best christmas silliness. In essence, it's experimental, but it also adds to the established tropes in its genre, deserving of its R rating at all times. It is not simple to combine these elements, but Wirkola's direction and Casey and Miller's thrilling script make this new christmas classic non-stop fun.

While Wirkola's most recent is clearly a tremendously enjoyable and in-your-face demonstration of storytelling influences from films like home Alone, the script goes above and beyond to capitalise on its core qualities. When particular individuals aren't being fired at or brutally murdered by Mr. Claus himself, the movie doesn't hesitate to focus on the sentimental, producing some incredibly heartwarming scenes. Having saying that, there are significant pacing problems that become apparent when these moments start to overlap. Sometimes they stay too long, while in other sequences they are cut off as soon as they start. There isn't really a barrier that prevents the overall enjoyment, but a balanced approach might have boosted the feature even more.

Violent Night is a crowd-pleaser and a fun time at the movies, packed with coarse dialogue and gory action scenes. This isn't your typical holiday movie, which is precisely why viewers will be taken aback by this funny story about a sledgehammer-wielding Santa Claus. While the movie's pace isn't always up to par, there are still plenty of high points to balance out the few disappointingly bloody low points. The cherry on top is David Harbour's layered, emotional performance sandwiched between groan-inducing kills, which makes for an energetic theatre performance that is worth every second on the big screen.
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04/12/2022 12:13 PM