In a vacuum, “Silent Night” seems like any number of action movies about non-superheroic and (either implicitly or explicitly) paternally-inspired one-man killing machines. Joel Edgerton plays a bereaved father who loses his young son to a stray bullet on Christmas eve, and embarks on a year-long quest to get revenge on the gang members responsible.
John Woo Calls Christmas Action Film ‘Silent Night’ His ‘First Independent Film’: ‘I Didn’t Get Any Interference’
Lionsgate’s “Silent Night” marks the Hong Kong action legend’s first Hollywood effort in 20 years
