SILENT NIGHT
Action | Running Time: 104 minutes
2023 / English
Country: United States of America (USA)
Directed by: John Woo
MENA Premiere
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Born in Guangzhou, director John Woo Yu-Sen redefined the Hong Kong action genre with his trademark “bullet ballet” action sequences, stylish slow motion, his invention of “gun fu” – shoot-outs within confined spaces – and his complex references to literary and film classics. He successfully took the same approach to films he made in the United States, which included Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2.
ProducerChristian Mercuri, Lori Tilkin Defelice, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, John Woo
CastJoel Kinnaman, Scott Mescudi, Harold Torres, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kid Cudi
ScriptwriterRobert Archer Lynn
From the producers of John Wick comes legendary Hong Kong director Woo’s first American project in 20 years – and one of his boldest. A gritty revenge tale featuring his trademark “bullet ballet” and “gun-fu” stylings, it also has no dialogue: the thrill-a-minute story is told entirely with visuals and music. Joel Kinnaman plays a tormented father who witnesses his young son die in the crossfire during a gang fight. While recovering from a wound that has cost him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission, undertaking a punishing training regime before taking on the worst of the city’s criminal underworld on Christmas Eve. A massive return to form for the pioneering director, who redefines the genre he helped create.