Violent Night (2022)
7/10
This one's gonna make the yearly watch list.
2 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Got some problems, but it kinda rocks.

Intro scene was perfect.

David Harbour was perfect casting, he's really got the action/comedy thing down.

Leguizamo was kinda disappointing. I think it's honestly just because I've seen him be so brilliant before, but this (and the Menu) just seemed like phoning it in. Plus, the character's hatred for Xmas seems like an afterthought.

Alex Hassel...keeps getting work...I guess he was good as Translucent in the Boys, but he was laughably terrible in Cowboy Bebop (probably not his fault)...but I definitely wasn't really rooting for him here...

The little girl? She was great.

It's a bit sloppy overall, but it's doing a great job of filling the Christmas Action movie hole, and unlike die hard, Christmas is essential to the plot. It's also better than a lot of the Christmas garbage out recently hoping to make it into the zeitgeist's yearly rotation.

Good work, y'all.
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