Fueled with rage and having nothing to lose, a grieving father prepares himself to take revenge on a vicious gang on Christmas Eve.
Action-packed, dramatic, Christmas-y, and… John Woo! Not knowing if I’d ever watch a John Woo film again, I must say I’m kinda impressed, but to a certain extent. The way he decides to tell the story, Joel Kinnaman and Catalina Sandino’s acting, the lack of yawnsome dialogues (or not at all), the heart-wrenching drama, and the pseudo-realistic action-packed sequences kinda make it up for the formulaic script that we’ve seen a lot more than once in the past.
Let’s be honest. There is no audience today that believes that a man who has allegedly never trained, has never used a knife to kill, has never fired a gun, has never had surveillance experience, and has never had any hand-to-hand combat experience… can become that good in a year through a montage sequence. But Woo ties it all up to the Christmas spirit, and if you love a good, violent, vengeful, bloody Christmas film with cheesy slow-mos… look no further! The film has numerous flaws, no matter how you look at it. But it is not a film that takes itself seriously and does not try to fool anyone. It is easily digestible with the right dose of everything.
So, grab your popcorn, put the phone on silent, gather your mates or chill on your own, and enjoy the vicious Christmas deaths of detestable drug dealers and gang-bangers!
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Sounds like one to watch but not to closely or with much thought. Thanks. Mate