Jordan Moreau If a picture is worth a thousand words, then John Woo‘s wordless action movie “Silent Night” is worth at least a thousand gunshots.
Woo returns to Hollywood for the first time since 2003 to quietly deliver “Silent Night,” a blood-soaked, Christmas-themed revenge tale with zero spoken dialogue.
It employs the same style of fast-paced, R-rated gun-toting that has become all the rage with action movies nowadays a la the “John Wick,” “Kingsman” and “Extraction” series.
But those movies, and many others, can trace their origins back to many of Woo’s older films, like “A Better Tomorrow,” “Hard Boiled” and “Broken Arrow.” Woo’s “bullet ballet” sequences, flashy kills and shootouts with guns, fists, knives and everything in between have paved the way and inspired many modern blockbusters since he started out in Hong Kong.
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