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.

Cast

Joel Kinnaman

as Brian Godlock

Kid Cudi

as Detective Dennis Vassel

Harold Torres

as Playa

Catalina Sandino Moreno

as Saya

Valeria Santaella

as Venus

Vinny O'Brien

as Anthony Barelo Esq.

Acoyani Chacon

as Webface

Angeles Woo

as Policewoman

Alejandro De Los Monteros

as Webface's Wingman

Robert 'Rock' Galotti

as Gun Range Trainer

Reviews

MovieGuys

This is a rather surprising film from Hong Kong director John Woo. Known for up beat, fast paced, gritty action films, Silent Night is a rather sombre, departure from what fans, like myself, have come to expect. The back story is rather sad and I feel this film dwells on this aspect to the p...

BornKnight

First movie of John Woo in Hollywood since Paycheck in 2003 (that was an average movie). This movie is almost all based on the expression of the protagonist and secondary characters, even being previsible and a bit melodramatic (but the melodrama is dispersed thorough the movie), without any lin...

Chandler Danier

It's a Woo film. Very predictable. Somewhat stale but still got the double guns. Real good double guns mr Detective. I think that was the highlight of the film. No way that guy was listening to that music and dancing like that. I didn't really watch the first hour, honestly. It's all pretty backgrou...

MarciaClarke

Best part was watching Kinnaman running down the street slow mo with the nose on his rudolph sweater bobbing up and down. Also when he's in his sloppy grey sweatpants working out. Pretty good. I was ok with the over the top slo mo drama action, I get that's the style, but where this movie lost me wa...

pimpskitters

There are some nice shots in this movie, gun range peephole was fun, and some decent car chases and good action direction from time to time. Last third really stank. Some pretty awful color saturation throughout and crappy cgi brought it down too. Gimmick of no talking was cute enough i guess, but c...

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