{"id":16221,"date":"2024-02-12T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2024-02-11T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:31:33","slug":"silent-night-2023-john-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16221","title":{"rendered":"Silent Night (2023, John Woo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16203\">Speaking<\/a> of John Woo&#8230; it would appear that he&#8217;s back.  Slick transitions between scenes, locations, time periods as he sets up the dialogue-free story of Joel &#8220;kill-a-man&#8221; Kinnaman getting revenge for the death of his son.  Half the movie is a training montage, as the sweater-wearing family man practices shooting and stunt driving and knives, and he&#8217;s still unprepared, as the first guy he kidnaps proves to be dangerously tough.  Joel finds time for some normal vigilante work, gets his first couple of kills.  Then he starts a Christmastime gang war and assaults the HQ of the head-tattooed supervillain.  Gets very videogamey in the final assault, and Joel is belatedly joined by cop Kid Cudi.  Tattooed guy was in a Liam Neeson disabled-guy revenge movie the year before, and Kinnaman played Neeson&#8217;s endangered son in <em>Run All Night<\/em>, so Neeson is the godfather of all revenge films now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/silentn1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/silentn2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of John Woo&#8230; it would appear that he&#8217;s back. Slick transitions between scenes, locations, time periods as he sets up the dialogue-free story of Joel &#8220;kill-a-man&#8221; Kinnaman getting revenge for the death of his son. Half the movie is a training montage, as the sweater-wearing family man practices shooting and stunt driving and knives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,155,1243,2558,144],"class_list":["post-16221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-christmas","tag-gangsters","tag-john-woo","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}