The unforgivable sin with John Woo's recent films is his use of CG gunshots and blood, this is a guy known for his amazing squib work and the artistry with which he would absolutely destroy his sets during the big over the top shootouts in films like The Killer or Hard Boiled, I saw his 2017 movie Manhunt which was atrocious in this regard, nothing but digital blood, muzzle flashes, fire, explosions, and particles everywhere, felt like live action with PS1 graphics added in post. Doesn't look like this film is any different.
I don't think the movie was bad. I thought it was great. But it was a movie made for a particular kind of person - someone like me. I'm a late 30's guy who grew up on John Woo, I like well-choreographed gun battles, and I drive a Mustang. I also do not mind lack of dialogue and love Nicholas Winding Refn films due to how the director communicates so much visually without words. I think a big reason a lot of critics don't like this movie so far is its politics and messaging. It's not a movie about overcoming inner turmoil to find peace. It's not a movie about the triumph of the human spirit or about learning to accept others. It's a movie with a simple and arguably brutish message - the answer to bad violent men is good violent men. That, and family is the most important thing in the world. A great many people aren't on board with this message, but a 77 year old John Woo doesn't have any fucks left to give. What I really enjoyed about this movie was how it demonstrated how little the average Joe actually knows about fighting and survival - hence the big montage. Most of what he did was plausible. The movie was gritty even in its excesses and never completely leapt out of the bounds of the plausible. It demonstrated how brutal and grinding a 1v1 fight against another man can be in the kitchen fight scene. And some of the action shots were just fantastic. There's a shot in the opening gang fight where we get a first person POV shot of Playa firing off his Desert Eagle and getting a headshot... looked BRUTAL. And then later we get the shot from the trailer of Godlock wrestling the gun from the baddie and shooting him under the chin...lots of stuff like this to be appreciated by viewers who enjoy gritty action with little flourishes of John Woo (like the female baddie/addict character going into slowmo with her SMG). I encourage people to go see this movie if they want more movies like this made...ones that are gritty, no-frills, and not the least bit politically correct.
I think you missed the point of Joel’s character expressing his feelings in the way that he did. His decision to drive recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns in response to seeing his son killed by people driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns is clearly intended to suggest to the audience that the people who were responsible for his son’s death were driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns because they themselves lost someone dear to them as a result of people driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns, and in turn decided to express their rage by driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns. He fell into the same cathartic trap that they did by choosing to drive recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns. It’s the well-known psychological and sociological phenomenon of ‘The Cycle of Driving Recklessly Through Built-Up Areas Shooting Guns’. Easy to miss, though. Both for you and for them.
The next version of the DSM will be including this glaring "phenomenon" omission from the current DSM (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
I just watched this poop of a movie, all I could think of was, "This movie is terrible, I could have re-watched Death Sentence". Death Sentence is a dope movie, one that I've recommended to several friends.
I just saw this last night. The movie was awful but fun to watch with a room full of friends. You can make fun of it and talk over it and no one gets upset.
You missed the full point what the producer said. The producer said "It really has no dialogue. It was another spec script that I was given and read, and I was like, "This is either going to be a genius move or a disaster, there's no in between." It's execution dependent for sure. I mean, John Woo kills it. Joel Kinnaman is the star and really delivers. I mean, there's some ambient noise and background and chatter like radio and stuff like that. But, yeah, it's awesome. I can't wait for you to see it". The fact is you don't know who John Woo is the man legend who created gun-fu and the heroic bloodshed genre with human emotions and you expect it to be a John Wick movie? You don't know movies.
Also, many people don;t understand gun fu. Gun Fu movies has many styles of filming, just like Kung Fu movies like Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan, they all have different styles of kung fu and the audience expected for John Wick for Slient Night but this isn't a John Wick movies, It's a John Woo movie.
Came to say this... They need to make a movie together where random bombastic uninteresting shit happens and you have no emotional connection to anything
Yep and people still give the excuse of them producing crap by mentioning their age. NIGGA I don't give a flying fuck about a dude's age if he's producing crap!
Just finished watching. Great movie. Not much dialog, but the frustration, motivation, loss, inability to continue with life, character arc was ALL there. Just saw a patient in LA this past Friday. Black older female being a good Samaritan trying to stop teenagers who were hurling glass bottles at a helpless pedestrian. Teenagers backed off... only to return with a truck full of teenagers. Sucker punched her and beat her unconscious. Concussion, vertigo, limited night mouth opening with pain, and now walks with two crutches. I felt her pain...the lawlessness and ineptitude of those in power. Again... love this movie. Love how there was no dialog. Could feel the main protagonist's pain
In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F ... so F- is pretty bad.
That's fine. In fact, if I were Disney, I'd just call this movie "The Punisher" and tell people to never bother them again for a proper Punisher movie (it's not like we will, anyway).
The only movie that was a classic with very little dialogs was The Bad, The Good and the Ugly. I swear Clint Eastwood's lines were one page long. Yet, I can watch it over and over.
I really liked Joel Kinnaman in "The Killing" as well. I felt that his acting style fit the mood of that show the best. But I didn't think he was great in "Suicide Squad" 2016 or "Robocop" 2014.
My sister and I seen it, and boy, they took both of "silent protagonist" and "silent treatment" way too literally, and whenever I watched that movie, I get a Punisher vibe, as I can see very familiar with the scene, and since this movie is lack of dialogue, we literally can't understand what's going on, I thought that they didn't want to speak because they don't want offend Brian, but throughout the movie, I realized that they didn't speak, the fact that there's one or two movies who did similar cases as Silent Night and the movie did way better than that, such as A Quiet Place, yes this is also lack of dialogue (albeit shows one of the scene that they can speak), but they did a sign language so we can understand them, and a second movie of A Quiet Place, they can speak not just sign language, and this movies released years before Silent Night, Silent Night however, led you so many questions about this scene.
Woo needs to remain his time in Asia...US Cinema will ruin him as clearly shown in all but maybe Face Off. I mean The Killer, Hard Boiled, Bullet in the Head are classics.
John Woo makes me sad. I just don't get why he could never seem to mature into something beyond his style (which wasn't even present the last few times I checked)
The level of, “I am flabbergasted” in this review is what makes it hilarious. “His son was killed by gang members driving recklessly in the street. And He did all that training.… JUST to drive recklessly through the street.” 😅😅😂💀☠️ Funny enough, you could have done this review without dialogue. Just the facial expressions said enough LOL
John Woo bringing back his corny action style is like the music industry bringing back 8 track tapes. Silent Night was complete garbage. Joel Kinnaman is the sh!t and even he couldn't save this movie.
As soon as John Wick became as popular as it did essentially rebooting Keanu's career all over again for the 2nd time I instantly knew we'd be seeing 34093204 movies try to be like John wick.
I totally understand why you feel that way. But I never went to see a John Woo flick for the writing or the plot or anything else even slightly redeeming. I just want action, and the dumber the better for a Woo flick. I just watched Faceoff with my son. Wow! That movie was horrific, but in a wonderful way, lol! There was absolutely nothing realistic or believable in that movie and I wouldn't change a thing 10/10 🤣👍
Hollywood does dirty most of these skandinavian actors... they're like "uuh, they have such striking looks... lets put them in a shitty movie, at least they can look good in the movie and maybe elevate a paper thin role with their looks"... It never works... You compare what Mads Mikkelsen does in denmark to the trash he does in hollywood... You realize they guy's far more than some edgy looking born to play bad guy roles... I highly recommend many of the movies he's done in his home country, like Jagten and Druk specially... You´ll be like "wait, he actually has range? no way!"... I wouldnt call neither of them conventionally fun, or enjoyable movies, but they are good, and he really delivers.
I didn't hate it for the same reasons you did necessarily, nor as much, but I do agree it wasn't good. I think my biggest single gripe aside from his having casually gotten people killed along similar lines to how his son was killed without seeming to lose sleep over it, is this sort of bizarre dynamic between he and his wife. He communicates with her less over that year, as far as we can tell, as Bruce Willis did with his wife in the Sixth Sense. And I never quite understood what she was doing for all that time, really. There's a time where she asks for her keys because she is going to work, but surely she notices what he's up to and has thoughts on it, or surely she bumped into him once in a while during that whole year. It's very weird. (Spoiler Alert) And I'm guessing you had already completely checked out by the end, but did you notice that the main character's tombstone gave his name as Michael rather than Brian, which was his name throughout the film? If I saw it correctly, it said that Taylor died in 2014 (but maybe that was the birthdate and I'm confused), and that "Michael" died in 2021. And as I'm looking at that, I'm wondering who these two people both are. Obviously if I saw it right and Taylor died seven years earlier, that leaves a six year gap in the story that's not really explained. Nor does "Michael" dying in 2021 match up to the frequent shots of the calendar which clearly indicated he would've died in 2022. So everything was just really botched in that particular scene.
This film is not his best but *Expendables 4* is the worst movie of the year. I don't like any of John Woo’s Hollywood movies except *Paycheck* so I had low expectations for this. John Woo tried something different with this. He is going to keep surprising us, I never would have expected *Red Cliff* and its brilliant.
Been bored recently and wanting a little excitement during sleepless nights, rented The Beekeeper and Silent Night (a week apart) Deciding which was a worse experience is like choosing between death by hanging from piano wire while wearing brown shoes or black ones. Jesus, what a couple of ignorant turkeys. 😠
It was umm, very generic imo. I feel like the action scenes could have been a lot more exciting. I also thought it was crazy how his kid was killed by a stray bullet then he was spraying the town will bullets. He was more worried about chasing the gang members when his kid was shot rather than taking the kid to the hospital. They showed them at the hospital after he was shot in the throat, but what about the kid???
Yeah.. most parent when their kids die, they stay in denial until a doctor pronounces and even then they'll still ask, what more can we do. It's just a narrative mess
Hey Alachia, I haven't listened to this review yet, but I will, as always lol but I have a question. 🙋 Not trying to get you to review it or anything, but have you seen Swan Song from a couple years ago and did you like it? My gal and I were just talking about it and i thought aboutcha.
@@AlachiaIt's an Apple+ exclusive so I could see why it might have flown under a lot of radars. I really think you'd like it, based on what I assume of your tastes. Do you do patreon reviews? Also, sorry to ask on a review. It was spur of the moment dumb brain.
That does sound horrible plus I would think audiences would talk through it… I feel like people get a bad idea during a stoned brainstorming session and then never reevaluate. Kind of like Battlefield Earth where every shot was at a 45 degree angle tilt which was a horrible idea…and also everything else was awful in it as well.
Alachia, I give a C-. I actually think it would have a better film, if it would have been a gritty & downbeat revenge/character study like Paul Shrader's 70 Rolling Thunder. I actually enjoyed the dramatic scenes of the main character struggle with the loss of his son. Maybe that's the vibe the film was going for, but without dialogue from the other characters, the writers failed bigtime. You say, it a parade of John Woo tropes, I disagree; nothing about this film feels like a Woo film, it actually seems like a generic revenge picture. I think a Woo film with a better script, no CGI Blood work, and done in the full on Classic Woo ie A Better Tomorrow with a hard R/NC-17 would go down very well with audiences. Also, one problem I have that no one else has mentioned is the film is the action is shot way too dark, like Alien VS. Predator Requiem dark. Also, I agree the overlong training montage killed any momentum the movie had and the trailer basically showed the whole movie. I have a better opinion of the film, than you but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone either.
Joel needs a new agent asap, also this movie would have been more unique with the minimal dialogue if the film No one will save you didn't come out before a was better
Seeing a John Woo film and complaining it's an action film is like seeing a John Waters film and complaining it's weird. Anyone who has followed John Woo knew this film wasn't going to have dialogue. I've known this for three years.
While seeing Godzilla One tonight which is a pass wait for TV ok flick 3 stars for TV I met at guy @ popcorn line said Silent Night was dark and a hard pass also.
I'm a fan of John Woo, so despite the negative buzz about this film, I initially planned to see it before watching any reviews. However, I ended up watching your review, and now that I know the film has no dialogue, I've decided not to see it. Thank you for saving me $15 and two hours. Now, I guess it's time to check out the Angry Joe review.
I get the feeling that Alachia didn't like this movie, but she still might be sitting on the fence with this one, personally I recommend 'Sympathy for the Devil 'which has Joel Kinnaman up against Nicolas Cage. Not many people watched it, but I enjoyed it!
Hm, I'll give John Woo a chance even if wont hold his candle like his Hong Kong classics. So I'll tolerate the monotone yet mostly "WHAM! BAM! But go hush! hush!!" Thank you, Ma'am!" kind of movie. Ironically, it's a 'Silent' Night for a reason. 🕊
I guess I'm the only one who didn't like John Woo's work back in the day. MI:2 was overblown and predictable, and Broken Arrow was just stupid. I know it's supposed to be unrealistic "dumb fun" but his directing style is always so in your face and he pushes "dumb" to the wall. The trailers nearly had me interested, but then I saw it was John Woo.
@jdraven0890 His last US movie was Paycheck. A movie that I kid you not was John Woo tackling Time Travel... And doesn't have any Gun Fights or Shootouts.
@jdraven0890 John Woo's biggest mistake was trying to take his style of filmmaking into Hollywood. Who interfered and meddled with each and every single one of his projects. Also didn't help that his first movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme basically had Van Damme and his big ego meddling with the movie.
@@NaquanGreen-zt4gr everyone I know even people who don't like action movies loves Face Off but I've never seen it. He is of course a competent director, I think he is let down by the writing and I am always aware that he is directing the movie. It's funny I don't mind slapstick or action comedies, but something about his movies just bothers me
@@ramdom_assortment How do you know if women in Asia enjoy action movies ? Women in Asia are known for being subservient to the men . they could be getting dragged along by their men and liking what they are told to like !
@@antonycuff4512 I know because I study, mainly HK cinema. It wasn't even until the late 90s that Hong Kong started to have popular films that didn't require them to other be an action/martial arts films and martial arts films are still very popular and being made today, even in mainland China. These films are even popular in places like Singapore. The only outlier Asian countries are Japan and Korea and even in those places you have dedicated action fans, both men and women. Hell Jackie Chan refused to kiss an actress on screen for a long time, because he did previously and it lead to an obsessed fan killing herself.
This is like going to a Michael Bay movie and complaining there is too much action. As for not speaking in the movie watching the trailer would have told you that before you even walked into the theater….
An F- LMAO 🤣 😅 thats a bad film 😅 they had a movie called Silent knight Deadly Night part 2 from year 1987 turns out to be the worst movie ever, that reminded me of that old movie lol.
Two things: 1. As much as you tried to give John Woo credit for his legendary film style, the truth is his work became stale in the 90's. his mission to conquer Hollywood has very mixed results, peaking in 1997 with FACE OFF. He abandoned Gun Fu movies in the late 2000's only participating as a producer to other movies inspired by his work. I will end up watching this movie at some point in hope you are wrong about the action. 2. PLEASE do a spoiler review when you describe more scenes, as you are awesome at it!!
This looked good in the trailer, but now that I've heard from you and other trustworthy reviewers, I may have to pass. I don't think I could get past the people that CAN talk but choose not to lol. That even seems silly to type out. I think you called it with "John Woo not having that vibe anymore." A lot of our older traditional directors aren't pushing out the quality of movie that they used to. Thank you for another great video, Alachia, and keep 'em coming!
@@JohnDavidSullivan Maybe it's because he's from Sweden(partly) and I live here, so i kinda see a swede trying really hard to be American/Hollywood or something. I always see actor man acting when he's onscreen and never just the character. I've seen Hanna but don't even remember him being in it 😅 Although I think he was kinda alright in Altered Carbon.
Did you even watch this movie your opening comment said this was set i California. It was set in Texas! How do you confuse that? All the cars had Texas plates!!! Not to mention all the buildings said Texas But agree it was awful movie
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this movie had one of the most unrealistic shooting scenes, even for movie standards.
The unforgivable sin with John Woo's recent films is his use of CG gunshots and blood, this is a guy known for his amazing squib work and the artistry with which he would absolutely destroy his sets during the big over the top shootouts in films like The Killer or Hard Boiled, I saw his 2017 movie Manhunt which was atrocious in this regard, nothing but digital blood, muzzle flashes, fire, explosions, and particles everywhere, felt like live action with PS1 graphics added in post. Doesn't look like this film is any different.
I don't think the movie was bad. I thought it was great. But it was a movie made for a particular kind of person - someone like me. I'm a late 30's guy who grew up on John Woo, I like well-choreographed gun battles, and I drive a Mustang. I also do not mind lack of dialogue and love Nicholas Winding Refn films due to how the director communicates so much visually without words.
I think a big reason a lot of critics don't like this movie so far is its politics and messaging. It's not a movie about overcoming inner turmoil to find peace. It's not a movie about the triumph of the human spirit or about learning to accept others. It's a movie with a simple and arguably brutish message - the answer to bad violent men is good violent men. That, and family is the most important thing in the world.
A great many people aren't on board with this message, but a 77 year old John Woo doesn't have any fucks left to give.
What I really enjoyed about this movie was how it demonstrated how little the average Joe actually knows about fighting and survival - hence the big montage. Most of what he did was plausible. The movie was gritty even in its excesses and never completely leapt out of the bounds of the plausible. It demonstrated how brutal and grinding a 1v1 fight against another man can be in the kitchen fight scene. And some of the action shots were just fantastic. There's a shot in the opening gang fight where we get a first person POV shot of Playa firing off his Desert Eagle and getting a headshot... looked BRUTAL. And then later we get the shot from the trailer of Godlock wrestling the gun from the baddie and shooting him under the chin...lots of stuff like this to be appreciated by viewers who enjoy gritty action with little flourishes of John Woo (like the female baddie/addict character going into slowmo with her SMG).
I encourage people to go see this movie if they want more movies like this made...ones that are gritty, no-frills, and not the least bit politically correct.
I think you missed the point of Joel’s character expressing his feelings in the way that he did. His decision to drive recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns in response to seeing his son killed by people driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns is clearly intended to suggest to the audience that the people who were responsible for his son’s death were driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns because they themselves lost someone dear to them as a result of people driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns, and in turn decided to express their rage by driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns. He fell into the same cathartic trap that they did by choosing to drive recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns. It’s the well-known psychological and sociological phenomenon of ‘The Cycle of Driving Recklessly Through Built-Up Areas Shooting Guns’.
Easy to miss, though. Both for you and for them.
The next version of the DSM will be including this glaring "phenomenon" omission from the current DSM (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
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🤣🤣🤣 nailed it!
Say “driving recklessly through built-up areas shooting guns” One More Time 🤣🤣🤣
Lol. No, my guy. I don't what it signifies. It's still ass. Really bad student films always signify something. That doesn't make them good.
Guess I'll just watch "Death Sentence" with Kevin Bacon again to scratch that itch for this kind of movie 😅
that movie is awesome 👍👍
Very underatted revenge movie
@pop000690 yeah extremely underrsted
I just watched this poop of a movie, all I could think of was, "This movie is terrible, I could have re-watched Death Sentence". Death Sentence is a dope movie, one that I've recommended to several friends.
@Dubb1000 yes death sentence is an awesome movie unlike this garbage 🤢🤢🤮👎👎🗑
I just saw this last night. The movie was awful but fun to watch with a room full of friends. You can make fun of it and talk over it and no one gets upset.
You are simply not the target audience.
Shit was ass buddy
Wait! This is worse than Expendables 4?! LMAO
I didn't watch Expendables 4 yet
@@Alachia please don't, you will regret it lol
YESS!! Embrace the Darkside!! This is the Alachia I'm used to! Don't know why I like people reviewing bad movies lol
F minus? That's a little rich, isn't it?
Heh thanks for the warning, I was fooled by the trailer into thinking this was like “Nobody” or something.
Nobody was a wonderful surprise
You missed the full point what the producer said. The producer said "It really has no dialogue. It was another spec script that I was given and read, and I was like, "This is either going to be a genius move or a disaster, there's no in between." It's execution dependent for sure. I mean, John Woo kills it. Joel Kinnaman is the star and really delivers. I mean, there's some ambient noise and background and chatter like radio and stuff like that. But, yeah, it's awesome. I can't wait for you to see it".
The fact is you don't know who John Woo is the man legend who created gun-fu and the heroic bloodshed genre with human emotions and you expect it to be a John Wick movie? You don't know movies.
Also, many people don;t understand gun fu. Gun Fu movies has many styles of filming, just like Kung Fu movies like Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan, they all have different styles of kung fu and the audience expected for John Wick for Slient Night but this isn't a John Wick movies, It's a John Woo movie.
Well said.
John Woo and Ridley Scott: Two old veterans of film industry who lost their touch and prestige.
Came to say this... They need to make a movie together where random bombastic uninteresting shit happens and you have no emotional connection to anything
Yep and people still give the excuse of them producing crap by mentioning their age. NIGGA I don't give a flying fuck about a dude's age if he's producing crap!
@@hichaelhyers I bet they couldn't beat Snyder and Bay at it 🤣🤣
Just finished watching. Great movie. Not much dialog, but the frustration, motivation, loss, inability to continue with life, character arc was ALL there.
Just saw a patient in LA this past Friday. Black older female being a good Samaritan trying to stop teenagers who were hurling glass bottles at a helpless pedestrian. Teenagers backed off... only to return with a truck full of teenagers. Sucker punched her and beat her unconscious. Concussion, vertigo, limited night mouth opening with pain, and now walks with two crutches. I felt her pain...the lawlessness and ineptitude of those in power.
Again... love this movie. Love how there was no dialog. Could feel the main protagonist's pain
I'm glad to once again live in a world where Alachia uploads. ❤️
Missed you, girl! 🙌
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"Directors don't get better with age." - Quentin Tarantino
Lol I loved this movie, I felt all the emotion and the action was awesome, the no dialog was a little weird but over all i loved it
I went in expecting John Wick... walked out from an Anemic revenge story that showed all the best parts in the trailer.
Well it was never gonna be John Wick.
How does this compare to The Killer by David Fincher in terms of hilariousness
I don’t know Predator was amazingly bad. I share it with people just so they can get a good laugh.
It's a John Woo film girl.
In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F ... so F- is pretty bad.
It's still not low enough
They stole The Punisher's storyline lol
Yup
That's fine. In fact, if I were Disney, I'd just call this movie "The Punisher" and tell people to never bother them again for a proper Punisher movie (it's not like we will, anyway).
@@cmbjive Sadly true
I guess they should have subcontracted the Rocky theme ...
Lmao!! Someone should re-edit this film with that
The only movie that was a classic with very little dialogs was The Bad, The Good and the Ugly. I swear Clint Eastwood's lines were one page long. Yet, I can watch it over and over.
I really liked Joel Kinnaman in "The Killing" as well. I felt that his acting style fit the mood of that show the best. But I didn't think he was great in "Suicide Squad" 2016 or "Robocop" 2014.
Coz the writing and direction were bad for both movies. Joel was great in Altered Carbon S1.
My sister and I seen it, and boy, they took both of "silent protagonist" and "silent treatment" way too literally, and whenever I watched that movie, I get a Punisher vibe, as I can see very familiar with the scene, and since this movie is lack of dialogue, we literally can't understand what's going on, I thought that they didn't want to speak because they don't want offend Brian, but throughout the movie, I realized that they didn't speak, the fact that there's one or two movies who did similar cases as Silent Night and the movie did way better than that, such as A Quiet Place, yes this is also lack of dialogue (albeit shows one of the scene that they can speak), but they did a sign language so we can understand them, and a second movie of A Quiet Place, they can speak not just sign language, and this movies released years before Silent Night, Silent Night however, led you so many questions about this scene.
Alachia, your facial expressions in the thumbnails are the best. Lol!
Woo needs to remain his time in Asia...US Cinema will ruin him as clearly shown in all but maybe Face Off. I mean The Killer, Hard Boiled, Bullet in the Head are classics.
Oh man I hope not. ...planning to see it Tomorrow. It can't be the worst when we had exorcist believer
let me know...
exorcist believer - please, not THAT bad...*yikes*
Your face in the still says it all . 😂 thank alachia
John Woo makes me sad. I just don't get why he could never seem to mature into something beyond his style (which wasn't even present the last few times I checked)
Well, I guess I'll talk Silent Night off mt Christmas list. And A+ to you Alachia on the holiday sweater.👌
The level of, “I am flabbergasted” in this review is what makes it hilarious. “His son was killed by gang members driving recklessly in the street. And He did all that training.… JUST to drive recklessly through the street.” 😅😅😂💀☠️ Funny enough, you could have done this review without dialogue. Just the facial expressions said enough LOL
John Woo bringing back his corny action style is like the music industry bringing back 8 track tapes. Silent Night was complete garbage. Joel Kinnaman is the sh!t and even he couldn't save this movie.
Hey Alachia - out of interest what did you think of NOPE? Did you ever see that flick about unidentified aerial phenomena?
As soon as John Wick became as popular as it did essentially rebooting Keanu's career all over again for the 2nd time I instantly knew we'd be seeing 34093204 movies try to be like John wick.
Simply “Bro thinks he’s him”
Dont forget about the first equaliser movie it came out shortly before john wick and made more money !
@ThomasJaa. Exactly. Woo was the one that inspired "Gun Fu".
I totally understand why you feel that way. But I never went to see a John Woo flick for the writing or the plot or anything else even slightly redeeming. I just want action, and the dumber the better for a Woo flick. I just watched Faceoff with my son. Wow! That movie was horrific, but in a wonderful way, lol! There was absolutely nothing realistic or believable in that movie and I wouldn't change a thing 10/10 🤣👍
She had me at "Grand Theft Auto fan fiction" 🥰
It seems this film is only for John Woo fans because I have seen 10/10 reviews and 1/10 lol
Sounds like an unintentional modern-day Jacques Tati movie with all the silence and background sounds :-)
Joel Kinamann should be Cyclops in a Xmen movie
I agree with you this movie sucks. John Wick is a much better revenge movie. I will definitely subscribe. Btw, It was in Texas not in California.
In a fictional Texas town, but the location didn’t matter one whit.
@@GizmoBeach So what if the town was fictional, it was still in Texas not California. She got the state wrong, I can't correct her?
Just feel for Joel, bro deserves to be in a hit movie
He does
Hollywood does dirty most of these skandinavian actors... they're like "uuh, they have such striking looks... lets put them in a shitty movie, at least they can look good in the movie and maybe elevate a paper thin role with their looks"... It never works... You compare what Mads Mikkelsen does in denmark to the trash he does in hollywood... You realize they guy's far more than some edgy looking born to play bad guy roles... I highly recommend many of the movies he's done in his home country, like Jagten and Druk specially... You´ll be like "wait, he actually has range? no way!"... I wouldnt call neither of them conventionally fun, or enjoyable movies, but they are good, and he really delivers.
John Woo's Lost in Space movie was never released. Maybe...on line.
I didn't hate it for the same reasons you did necessarily, nor as much, but I do agree it wasn't good. I think my biggest single gripe aside from his having casually gotten people killed along similar lines to how his son was killed without seeming to lose sleep over it, is this sort of bizarre dynamic between he and his wife. He communicates with her less over that year, as far as we can tell, as Bruce Willis did with his wife in the Sixth Sense. And I never quite understood what she was doing for all that time, really. There's a time where she asks for her keys because she is going to work, but surely she notices what he's up to and has thoughts on it, or surely she bumped into him once in a while during that whole year. It's very weird.
(Spoiler Alert)
And I'm guessing you had already completely checked out by the end, but did you notice that the main character's tombstone gave his name as Michael rather than Brian, which was his name throughout the film? If I saw it correctly, it said that Taylor died in 2014 (but maybe that was the birthdate and I'm confused), and that "Michael" died in 2021. And as I'm looking at that, I'm wondering who these two people both are. Obviously if I saw it right and Taylor died seven years earlier, that leaves a six year gap in the story that's not really explained. Nor does "Michael" dying in 2021 match up to the frequent shots of the calendar which clearly indicated he would've died in 2022. So everything was just really botched in that particular scene.
What's up with that movie poster? Probably not a great idea to point a gun up your nose with your finger on the trigger.
This film is not his best but *Expendables 4* is the worst movie of the year. I don't like any of John Woo’s Hollywood movies except *Paycheck* so I had low expectations for this.
John Woo tried something different with this. He is going to keep surprising us, I never would have expected *Red Cliff* and its brilliant.
Been bored recently and wanting a little excitement during sleepless nights, rented The Beekeeper and Silent Night (a week apart)
Deciding which was a worse experience is like choosing between death by hanging from piano wire while wearing brown shoes or black ones. Jesus, what a couple of ignorant turkeys. 😠
It was umm, very generic imo. I feel like the action scenes could have been a lot more exciting. I also thought it was crazy how his kid was killed by a stray bullet then he was spraying the town will bullets. He was more worried about chasing the gang members when his kid was shot rather than taking the kid to the hospital. They showed them at the hospital after he was shot in the throat, but what about the kid???
Yeah.. most parent when their kids die, they stay in denial until a doctor pronounces and even then they'll still ask, what more can we do. It's just a narrative mess
Hey Alachia, I haven't listened to this review yet, but I will, as always lol but I have a question. 🙋 Not trying to get you to review it or anything, but have you seen Swan Song from a couple years ago and did you like it? My gal and I were just talking about it and i thought aboutcha.
I've never heard of it actually
@@AlachiaIt's an Apple+ exclusive so I could see why it might have flown under a lot of radars. I really think you'd like it, based on what I assume of your tastes. Do you do patreon reviews?
Also, sorry to ask on a review. It was spur of the moment dumb brain.
The trailer gave me very bad vibes. Turns out i was right.
Amazing trailer
That does sound horrible plus I would think audiences would talk through it…
I feel like people get a bad idea during a stoned brainstorming session and then never reevaluate. Kind of like Battlefield Earth where every shot was at a 45 degree angle tilt which was a horrible idea…and also everything else was awful in it as well.
Alachia, I give a C-. I actually think it would have a better film, if it would have been a gritty & downbeat revenge/character study like Paul Shrader's 70 Rolling Thunder. I actually enjoyed the dramatic scenes of the main character struggle with the loss of his son.
Maybe that's the vibe the film was going for, but without dialogue from the other characters, the writers failed bigtime.
You say, it a parade of John Woo tropes, I disagree; nothing about this film feels like a Woo film, it actually seems like a generic revenge picture.
I think a Woo film with a better script, no CGI Blood work, and done in the full on Classic Woo ie A Better Tomorrow with a hard R/NC-17 would go down very well with audiences.
Also, one problem I have that no one else has mentioned is the film is the action is shot way too dark, like Alien VS. Predator Requiem dark. Also, I agree the overlong training montage killed any momentum the movie had and the trailer basically showed the whole movie. I have a better opinion of the film, than you but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone either.
Joel needs a new agent asap, also this movie would have been more unique with the minimal dialogue if the film No one will save you didn't come out before a was better
Couldnt agree more Joel gets the wrong roles and bad movies time and again
Was it directed by Auralnauts?
I think Joel Kinnaman goes out of his way to picks the worst roles possible. I like him alot.
Omg STOP saying this was set in California it was set in Texas if you actually watched it you’d know!
LOL, silent pow ending.
I totally agree with you, he is a good actor who keeps playing bad characters! I hope he gets a great role and I will keep looking for it!!!!
Damn. You pulled no punches here. 😅
Seeing a John Woo film and complaining it's an action film is like seeing a John Waters film and complaining it's weird. Anyone who has followed John Woo knew this film wasn't going to have dialogue. I've known this for three years.
Agreed.
The movie was trash
The Killer had plenty of dialogue.
Mainstream people not gonna like this film
While seeing Godzilla One tonight which is a pass wait for TV ok flick 3 stars for TV I met at guy @ popcorn line said Silent Night was dark and a hard pass also.
I loved that actor in Altered Carbon.
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For Alachia's Christmas jumper !
Considering my recent subscription I now fully expect a best film of the year. Many thanks in advance, bit cheeky I know but this is the modern world.
Love the deadpool christmas sweater!
Damn, I really wanted this to be good. This is been way too many crap films this year!
I'm a fan of John Woo, so despite the negative buzz about this film, I initially planned to see it before watching any reviews. However, I ended up watching your review, and now that I know the film has no dialogue, I've decided not to see it. Thank you for saving me $15 and two hours.
Now, I guess it's time to check out the Angry Joe review.
What a wasted opportunity.
That is a shame. I kinda wanted to see this movie.
Watch it
It was bad, but I’ll watch it 50 more times before I even consider watching Skinamarink again LOL
you should watch "SnabbaCash" one of Joels best films
I was just about to ask you if you ever say the word "movie" instead of "film", but then you did it! 4:18
Highlight in the year 2023!
I get the feeling that Alachia didn't like this movie, but she still might be sitting on the fence with this one, personally I recommend 'Sympathy for the Devil 'which has Joel Kinnaman up against Nicolas Cage. Not many people watched it, but I enjoyed it!
I like revenge porn but I draw the line at this crap
Hm, I'll give John Woo a chance even if wont hold his candle like his Hong Kong classics. So I'll tolerate the monotone yet mostly "WHAM! BAM! But go hush! hush!!" Thank you, Ma'am!" kind of movie. Ironically, it's a 'Silent' Night for a reason. 🕊
I guess I'm the only one who didn't like John Woo's work back in the day. MI:2 was overblown and predictable, and Broken Arrow was just stupid.
I know it's supposed to be unrealistic "dumb fun" but his directing style is always so in your face and he pushes "dumb" to the wall.
The trailers nearly had me interested, but then I saw it was John Woo.
@jdraven0890
What are your thoughts on John Woo's other work like
Hard Target and Face/Off.
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His last US movie was Paycheck. A movie that I kid you not was John Woo tackling Time Travel... And doesn't have any Gun Fights or Shootouts.
@jdraven0890
John Woo's biggest mistake was trying to take his style of filmmaking into Hollywood.
Who interfered and meddled with each and every single one of his projects. Also didn't help that his first movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme basically had Van Damme and his big ego meddling with the movie.
@@NaquanGreen-zt4gr everyone I know even people who don't like action movies loves Face Off but I've never seen it.
He is of course a competent director, I think he is let down by the writing and I am always aware that he is directing the movie.
It's funny I don't mind slapstick or action comedies, but something about his movies just bothers me
Truly disappointed. I love John Woo & Kinneman.
Thanks for getting to the point lol. 2.5 seconds review. I kept watching but your face was the review
I'm speechless.
I was wishing this was going to be a good movie
I watched this movie this morning. MEH.
I bet guys will still like it ! That's why van damme , segall , Stallone and Arnold are still making money !
You obviously don't know audiences in Asia. Men and women have both been enjoying action movies since movies were black and white, especially in Asia.
@@ramdom_assortment How do you know if women in Asia enjoy action movies ? Women in Asia are known for being subservient to the men . they could be getting dragged along by their men and liking what they are told to like !
@@antonycuff4512 I know because I study, mainly HK cinema. It wasn't even until the late 90s that Hong Kong started to have popular films that didn't require them to other be an action/martial arts films and martial arts films are still very popular and being made today, even in mainland China. These films are even popular in places like Singapore. The only outlier Asian countries are Japan and Korea and even in those places you have dedicated action fans, both men and women. Hell Jackie Chan refused to kiss an actress on screen for a long time, because he did previously and it lead to an obsessed fan killing herself.
This is like going to a Michael Bay movie and complaining there is too much action. As for not speaking in the movie watching the trailer would have told you that before you even walked into the theater….
Yeah but none of the actors talk, it's trash and no the trailer didn't hint at that. Woo lost it
An F- LMAO 🤣 😅 thats a bad film 😅 they had a movie called Silent knight Deadly Night part 2 from year 1987 turns out to be the worst movie ever, that reminded me of that old movie lol.
I will skip this one. Thanks. I have so many of your videos to catch up on.
Two things:
1. As much as you tried to give John Woo credit for his legendary film style, the truth is his work became stale in the 90's. his mission to conquer Hollywood has very mixed results, peaking in 1997 with FACE OFF. He abandoned Gun Fu movies in the late 2000's only participating as a producer to other movies inspired by his work. I will end up watching this movie at some point in hope you are wrong about the action.
2. PLEASE do a spoiler review when you describe more scenes, as you are awesome at it!!
Nothing to spoil in this film as the trailer literally gives away all the good parts. The rest of the movie is just slow ass montage.
@@Alachia that bad huh? 🤣
The movie is called “Silent Night” get it?😂
Lol. Oh I get it
Was thinking about watching it but I'll pass now
This looked good in the trailer, but now that I've heard from you and other trustworthy reviewers, I may have to pass. I don't think I could get past the people that CAN talk but choose not to lol. That even seems silly to type out. I think you called it with "John Woo not having that vibe anymore." A lot of our older traditional directors aren't pushing out the quality of movie that they used to.
Thank you for another great video, Alachia, and keep 'em coming!
Wow this movie sounds frustrating lol
Alachia, please review the new "May December" movie starring Jullian Moore and Natalie Portman. please please please please please!!
Just released it this morning!
@@Alachia 🙏👍👍
Shame, I really love Joel Kinnaman as an actor. He was so good in The Killing. I was also hoping it would be a return to form for John Woo.
Oh man i think he really sucks. He is pretty terrible in For All Mankind. He almost always overacts and tries too hard while having no range at all.
@@Shinkajohmm thats a surprise to hear that. Always thought he was underrated. I think he's also really good in Hanna.
@@JohnDavidSullivan Maybe it's because he's from Sweden(partly) and I live here, so i kinda see a swede trying really hard to be American/Hollywood or something. I always see actor man acting when he's onscreen and never just the character.
I've seen Hanna but don't even remember him being in it 😅
Although I think he was kinda alright in Altered Carbon.
Did you even watch this movie your opening comment said this was set i California. It was set in Texas! How do you confuse that? All the cars had Texas plates!!! Not to mention all the buildings said Texas
But agree it was awful movie
We're both wrong. It was set in New Mexico but was filmed in Mexico City.
I totally agree with you 💯
U should just be called the movie hater i think u that type of person that would call Brie Larsons debut directorial movie a masterpiece
I wish I could sit through enough bad movies so I could make videos this articulate.
Sounds predicable af. 😂