2022 · action · comedy · fantasy
Violent Night
Directed by Tommy Wirkola1h 52m2022
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.
Our read: Violent Night (2022) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · comedy · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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