Silent Night

Brian Godlock with a gun

John Woo goes John Wick in Silent Night, his first US movie in 20 years, since 2003’s Paycheck in fact. And if Wick was all about people doing creatively terrible things to each other in beautiful choreographed ways, so is Silent Night, with the added gimmick that here no one speaks. Not that they speak much in John Wick, or in any revenge movie of any sort, come to that. Charles Bronson was once the king of this sort of thing, but now Keanu rules the roost, with many jostling for some of the action. Here it’s Joel Kinnaman, playing Brian Godlock, an average sort of guy thrust onto the path of murderous … Read more