Silent Night

Silent Night is an action thriller about a father whose young son is killed on Christmas Eve, caught in gunfire between gangs. Brian Godlock is wounded in the same attack, and the injury takes his voice. Unable to speak, he spends the following year training himself for one purpose: to hunt down those responsible and take his revenge.

The film is directed by John Woo, his twenty-first feature in chronological order, arriving after Manhunt and before The Killer. Robert Archer Lynn wrote the screenplay, and Woo produced alongside Basil Iwanyk and Lori Tilkin. Joel Kinnaman plays Brian Godlock, with Kid Cudi as Detective Dennis Vassel, Harold Torres as Playa, and Catalina Sandino Moreno as Saya.

It runs 104 minutes and was released in late November 2023. It drew modest returns at the worldwide box office, around 11 million dollars, and its ratings sit in mixed territory: 5.3 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 28,000 votes, and 6.1 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller pool of around 980 votes. A critics' score of 5.6 out of 10 from 125 reviews lands close to the audience result on IMDb, suggesting broad agreement rather than a sharp split.