Silent Night (2023) - Movie Review

[@CodyLeachYT]

"You said Payback...I think you meant Paycheck." Yes...yes I did.

[@jeffcunningham0389]

Payback is the better movie anyway.. both versions

[@dank2171]

Payback is awesome. I was like people hate payback?!? Paycheck is ok. I was hoping silent night would be awesome. Hearing mix things. The speechless aspect has me very concerned.

[@drunkinmadness3444]

Are you wearing boobies?

[@bigchiller7922]

Just wondering if you spoil this one before I start watching!

[@jackrosati1438]

Literally my first thought and I haven't even seen the movie lol

[@raiusdaltar1483]

"I have no words!" *proceeds to say many words*

[@TheCommentNinja81]

KZbinrs 💁‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@rmarkley79]

Damn, I was really hoping Joel Kinnaman was going to get a Nobody like Bob Odenkirk with this one. I'll still give it a watch, but it'll be streaming based on the reviews I've heard like yours. Thanks Cody!

[@Smokinduckz]

Bob odenkirk? The the guy who played the main character lawyer on 2 of the most successful shows of all time? That guy? Unknown?

[@rmarkley79]

@@Smokinduckz we all know who Saul is, I wanted this movie to be as good as Nobody was.

[@Smokinduckz]

@@rmarkley79 have you heard of Brad Pitt? Now that's a real unknown actor

[@rmarkley79]

@@Smokinduckz lol, I’d rather not continue this, but enjoy the trolling.

[@getdrippy4416]

Dude. Good to hear someone speak on how underrated Joel Kinnaman is.

[@colten53]

Altered Carbon season 1 is seriously underrated

[@laquitasmith6774]

He is so great!!! I really want him to get the recognition he deserves

[@matthewlewin5536]

He’s excellent in For All Mankind!

[@Drewkam1995]

​@@colten53yes after that I stopped watching

[@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl]

Agree

[@RichyScott]

Cody, I really do love this channel. I’m very grateful for the time you put in for the sake of our collective entertainment.

[@manicpanic3544]

I really liked "Paycheck" as well.

[@hopefulsoul728]

Thanks, Cody. I loved The Killing as well. Did you see Altered Carbon? Duh, you probably have! Thanks for the honest review. You let us down easy, you're appreciated.

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

Sorry, but he is right. The movie was not very good.

[@hopefulsoul728]

@@MaxNeugebauer.Yes, but the review wasn’t a hate-fest. There have been so many movies I am so excited to see and I watch a review that makes me feel stupid for even considering it, I appreciate the delivery style. Even Cody was disappointed, which means he went in excited to find a new favorite film, and it didn’t deliver. Have a good weekend. The holiday movie season is just starting, it will get better, take care.

[@laquitasmith6774]

I really enjoyed The Killing as well! Watched it 3 times just to watch Joel

[@lindamagagula7476]

Hey, Cody. I also adore Joel Kinnaman. I have seen all of his movies he appeared in such as Robocop remake. Speaking of Altered Carbon, Joel did a awesome fight scene with Action Legend himself Daniel Bernhardt.

[@WolvesAtYourDoor]

i absolutely loved this movie. seems im in the minority but oh well. i understand a lot of the hate it gets but the story just worked for me. & i know literally nobody else gets any character development but it was his movie so i was ok w him getting literally all of it & him getting flashbacks of his son throughout the movie was fine w me because it shows his love for his son and what motivates him. over a year he never lost any motivation on what hes been training to do.

[@jameydunne3920]

Me also, although it wasn't the kind of movie I was expecting. A lot of his critiques are accurate when you look at what Cody was expecting. It is definitely more The Equalizer or the new Netflix movie The Killer than the B movie Xmas shootem' up I thought would be. I liked how the random violence of one action (his child being unintentionally killed) lead to a kharmic retribution to the person who inflicted it. Considering Woo is not a Westerner, I loved how the focused on the vengeance as character versus the instigators of said vengeance. I also loved how there was an emotional cost to the father's path of vengeance. And even if it may have been clunky in some points, I thought the whole film beings ambient sound was fascinating. It's too bad that action directors (like Woo) never get their full respect the way Scorsese or Ridley Scott does. Woo's films have more style and substance than usually given credit for.

[@watchdogsplaythroughs9852]

Also, it's a revenge story through and through and I love that about it. Not giving him a redemptive arc was a ballsy decision i absolutely love.

[@Murdermagictricks]

Yeah but he literally threw his marriage and life. Also, he did have a job? He spent a year driving around looking angery and lifting weights while his wife went to work. I guess he was on disability but the motherfucker was moving just fine.

[@jacobwaldrop8604]

Go watch "For all Mankind!" He is outstanding in that. He definitely deserves better. My biggest regret was that I didn't walk out because I was hoping that any second the action would pick up and I would get great action. In my theater the silence was such a gimmick that at certain scenes that were supposed to convey trauma, my theater was laughing.

[@0megaForce]

Hearing him think and plan or talk to himself would've been pretty cool

[@RobertParks-h7r]

Love The Night Of The Demons 2 T Shirt.Almost as good as the original but very good sequel

[@paulcarpenter7844]

Joel kinnaman and Liam neeson in run all night was really good

[@nate1066pollock]

Any interest in doing a John Woo review series, focusing on his American movies (but including Hardboiled because it's awesome)?

[@remco1023]

The informer is a good Joel kinnaman movie It's a good action -thriller A must watch in my opinion

[@CodyLeachYT]

Great flick!

[@aidanglenane8330]

Hey Cody big fan your reviews are always a much watch keep it up man

[@jondoe8804]

That shirt is fucking sick. Should do a review series on night of the demons movies

[@susanboose955]

Cody, I know it may seem counter intuitive after the BTILC review, but you HAVE to see The Killer and Hardboiled. Hardboiled especially is die hard with a body count of 200!! They don’t have much of the HK weirdness, they’re very accessible and they kick ass!

[@N00bkillr693]

Damn dude that’s disappointing to hear. I was excited for this when I saw the trailer during Killers of the Flower Moon

[@supastar25]

It sounds like they extended the no-dialogue schtick way too much...not having the other characters talk at all, in moments when you expect them to talk, only works for so long. I understand what you mean.

[@marci679]

I do feel this movie would have Been Better or awesome with a few twist to it 1st i Think that making all The Characters silent didnt make sense though i Think that Only making Joel Kinnaman silent would Be The Better choice it Will show more of his acting range that he Can act Without saying a Word but it was not needed that The rest of The cast also was silent 2nd i Think that if their was more action in The movie and not just at The last Half hour of The movie would Be good and maybe film The action more Smooth 3rd i Think that there should Be more like range in The villians than just Be villians or just a gang i would like Them to be more setup then just Be a generic villian And last this is not really important but maybe they could have maked it more Christmas theme ish but this is not The most important of all The other Things

[@paulcarpenter7844]

What a weird pick for him to play because he's so good at using his words and how he talks and acts

[@ryandireda9455]

Hard Target with JCVD was John Woo's American director debut. I know you're not a fan of those kinds of movies but PLEASE do yourself a favor and check it out. Great cast, interesting story and very cool practical action scenes. I would put it up there with FACE/OFF when it comes to John Woo movies in my opinion. Keep up the good work man !

[@aaronbrooks1020]

Hard Target's My Shit!!🙌🏽🔥🔥🔥 And hard boiled too!!

[@thehalcyonflight]

Cody I love your content. Mainly cuz we agree on about 95% of everything.. P.s. will you review the whole of Thriller by MJ… it’s basically a short film and with the content and practical FX, I’d love to see an updated review of it

[@robbieracer3294]

Seems like having him deaf would've been more interesting. Him not hearing gunshots, footsteps, explosions....but then having us hearing them and flashing to him not hearing them, that would've been way more intense

[@chrisvetor]

The killing is a really great tv series , possibly his most well received work

[@laquitasmith6774]

Yes!

[@Sammy2tones]

I’d love a “15 different reasons why Die Hard is a Christmas film” video to put that debate to rest.

[@KiramidHead]

It's not in Woo's usual style, but I thought his two parter Red Cliff was a cool, stylized epic, even if I didn't fully grasp the historical context.

[@playedout148]

Red cliff is cool.

[@museyamwa]

Red Cliff underrated. Sick movie

[@jasonclarke5140]

Season 1 of The Killing is one of the best TV show seasons I’ve ever seen 👍

[@alexanderguevara3673]

Will you be reviewing Godzilla? Not sure if you are big on foreign movies. Great review as always man!

[@jasonvoorhees310]

My brothers and I still got to check this film out. Thanksgiving suprised us, and I thought that was fun. Hopefully this is at least ok.

[@ethicaltechnical]

Altered Carbon was amazing as well.

[@ChiSportsandDisc]

The Killing is an AMAZING show, love that you plugged it. As always, great review. Still excited to go see it for hopefully some well done action

[@ChiSportsandDisc]

The 2nd/3rd seasons where they really start to dive into Holder’s background is what really made me love Kinnaman as an actor

[@justinbrandt8415]

Right, that show is as close to perfect as it gets for me.

[@kathywhite9411]

Love Joel Kinnaman,too! He is such an unappreciated actor!! This makes me sad…. Probably will have to watch it anyways because of him.🙌

[@kozmokramer1018]

I have to say it again! Brother you are a spot on film guru! I agreed with everything you have said. Fantastic job!

[@toddprit]

Have you been watching "For All Mankind" I'd say it's the one thing Joel Kinnaman has managed to be part of that has had some success (and it's fantastic, HIGHLY recommended.)

[@Rob16164]

The lack of dialogue was apparently a script aspect. You’ve seen Hard Target, right?

[@taylorpack7705]

Bro you gotta love John woo action he’s awesome

[@cookiewoman8959]

How have you never reviewed any Mad Max films? 😮 I would love to hear your thoughts on them...especially Fury Road now that Furiosa is coming out next May.

[@santos8468]

The person I was watching it with said that the no dialogue thing was similar to the movie Soldier, but that movie did it better because it was just Kurt Russell and the other super soldiers who had minimal to no dialogue. Everyone else actually spoke full sentences. I need to give that one a rewatch and see if it holds up.

[@jeremyruh5219]

Was there a scene with birds before a tense moment

[@kontrolbug392]

I remeber when Face/Off was first released, I thought... man, John Woo can do no wrong. And as it turned out that was the last film of his I really liked LOL.

[@Gamzor]

So this movie was supposed to be called Silent Revenge at first, but they decided to cash in on the Christmas release hoping that would help

[@elizabethhey9475]

Where did you get that shirt?

[@devinharbert2245]

Great review Cody I Respect your opinion, personally I Loved Silent Night, Great Action, Well Written & Directed, Joel Kinnaman & the other actors Good Job, Solid Villains, Too Bad it Bombed cause it's very Underrated IMO, 1 of my Favorites of John Woo & of 2023 ❤

[@JenMistress]

Saw the title Silent Night, and was thinking it was a killer Santa movie, but I guess not. Not even any Garbage Day either. 😉😂🤣 Yeah, have a feeling that I'm better off sticking with those Silent Night movies judging by this review. Anyways, did enjoy this video. Thank you, Cody.

[@tdtherealest777]

I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID. Right on !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@djdepression]

Whered you get that night of the demons shirt?

[@RustyRagesRegularly]

I kinda liked Paycheck. It was dumb fun and idk I have those same feelings about Silent Night. It was just dumb fun. But I can see why it didn’t click for you…. For clarification: I agree this is not a good movie but I had fun with it and I think those two things can be diff.

[@paulromney8368]

I'd like to hear your 15 reasons that Die Hard is a Christmas movie because I've always thought that Christmas was merely incidental to the plot.

[@TheCommentNinja81]

Exactly. It's incidental. Anybody with the "DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE" opinion must not be trusted in his capacity to analyze movies. Every opinions that comes after this one are proven biased and tainted with a wrongful perception on events, link between events and characters, between characters, cinema codes etc. This is an opinion for the amateurs to recognize themselves among other amateurs on the street and on the internet.

[@patricknarovich7068]

Hey man, great review! But just wondering if you plan on watching and reviewing Godzilla minus one? I’ve been wondering for a few months so I hope you see this, but if not I get you can’t read em all.

[@crystalguardian5854]

It’s a shame joel kinnaman hasn’t picked up much momentum. It seemed like he may have gotten a bigger career with Suicide Squad 2021 but then they kill his character off by the end. I hope he succeeds some day

[@TWINEAGLE1000]

Do you plan on watching Godzilla: Minus One? Interested in your opinion of it

[@elphbwckd212]

I didnt even realize people considered Die Hard a christmas movie till a few years ago. Growing up watching it i never even noticed the christmas elements beyond a couple of scenes that showed christmas decorations. Lmao guess i missed the memo on that one.

[@j.l.larsson1472]

Guess you missed the beginning of the movie. Theres no action so that ads to christmas feel

[@Johnlindsey289]

What do you think of ramboraph4life and ocpcommunications?

[@colerigo6658]

Cody give me a favor and never retire lol you’re the best man

[@l.e1233]

what's with the penalty at the end of the movie?

[@thectk1000]

Didn't know it was LITERALLY, Silent Night.

[@davidperry748]

Cody im back again desperately needing to know if you've seen Train to Busan? Ill watch every video 10x over until we talk about this lol

[@emptyblank099a]

dubs@@Fire91ful

[@BoxOfChocolatez]

@@Fire91ful Sure he does. In fact according to his twitter he just watched Godzilla Minus One.

[@ProfessorHubertFarnsworth]

I'm so glad I saw Godzilla Minus One yesterday instead. The Japanese melodrama set against a murderous Godzilla was such a delight. As excited as this trailer had me to see this.....I didn't realize it was almost fully silent and now I've lost interest.

[@KierGomes]

The delivery of this joke about Mi2: “If ya fast forward through the slow motion scenes you can get through it in about 35min” Fucking gold.

[@StuntmanDanHemi]

It kept taking me out of it every time he would make noises that I'm pretty sure mute people can't make lol. Also, I think it's a good movie, but I also left slightly disappointed and I blame it on the trailer. That trailer made it look like it was gona be neck breaking pace action from beginning to end, but it's not... it's a grief movie and it really didn't help that it's a JW movie, people were expecting too much action. Same happened with Thomas Jane's Punisher, it was fine, but people were expecting much more punishing and much less spying. If Silent Night fails, I am 100% positive it'll be because of the trailer smh

[@mikebunting2805]

Lol once i heard the premise i waiting for your review. You never disappoint. I love joel and the killing is awesome.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Have you seen Godzilla minus one

[@KParks]

Ever gonna review the Fargo movie? I'd like to know how it ranks for you.

[@CatchpoleJames-p7w]

6:58 '...because nobody can fucking SPEAK' Why did this amuse me so much?

[@ricardomatta15]

I love Lethal Weapon, thanks for mentioning that among Christmas Actions movies!

[@R3db3ard18]

This the guy from Logan and The Cursed. Lol jk that's Boyd Holbrook. Always get these guys confused from time to time. Was wanting to see this, but I always look forward to your reviews if it's worth my time and money as we have similar tastes in movies. I'll wait until streaming or vod. Thanks for the review 👍

[@ps5andstuffhere]

It seems you will either love this film or hate it. I will be shocked if I don't enjoy it being a big John Woo film

[@chrisg8820]

I was hoping for a great Christmas vibe and setting, I love Xmas horror and action movies - huge disappointment to hear this missed the mark on that…. I had a feeling by the trailer it wasn’t Christmasy at all.

[@Branchout1097]

I have nothing to add other I look forward to Cody's Top 15 reasons why Die Hard is a Christmas movie. 🙂 I would like to hear them.

[@funkrobot9762]

So let’s hear those 15 reasons Die Hard is a Christmas film.

[@imaquis8368]

Kinneman was amazing in Altered Carbon. It was a massive mistake to not bring him back in season 2. Super sad to hear Silent Night wasn’t that great, was hoping it was going to be good.

[@GoldenSirius]

Season 2 was terrible, but I agree about the first season!

[@TolerTalks]

Excellent review, Cody! In my review, I actually praised Kinnaman for doing what he could with what he had, but the film was just.....boring, and I agree alot of the character developemt was too long and tedious.

[@IzunaSlap]

Godzilla Minus One is great, watch it

[@MovieFiles]

Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one who found that 45-50mins in middle of the film to be extremely boring and terrible.

[@Drewkam1995]

Nice to hear your opinion on Joel he's underrated I really liked him in altered carbon. Wish he would have stayed in show no hate to Anthony Mackie but there was no going back when he left Joel kinnaman is highly underrated.

[@jorgezarco9269]

Payback was Mel Gibson's remake of Point Blank(1967). Ringo Lam's Full Contact(1992) was a HK remake of Point Blank.

[@billyrattlesticks6949]

Well I'm still gonna watch it, nearly every other review I've seen of this says it's great, people are raving about it so I'm still going to go see it, we can't all like the same thing I suppose. And seeing as how you like the Wrong turn remake, I kind of get the feeling my view of this film may differ from yours anyway Cody ha ha I watched a horror film called 'No one will save you' a few weeks back and that also had zero dialogue and both me and my girlfriend really enjoyed that one so, I'll give this one a shot. :)

[@aaronkindig8016]

Joel Kinnaman is Taylor Kitsch with acting talent

[@niktour352]

Damn

[@jacobdenton6065]

We also have to remember if it was not because of John woo there will be no John woo

[@themaskedman6489]

Honestly cody, thank u for being so honest in ur reviews brother Kudos!

[@shakenbake3249]

I thought this was another remake of sorts of Silent Night Deadly Night lol 😂I heard about this movie yesterday and I only saw the poster for a brief second. Any chance of me watching this has now gone down the drain

[@weirdguy1495]

Imagine if the main character tossed one of the villains in the garbage can and rasped out "Garbage day..."

[@esovae]

Okay me too, I thought it was silent night deadly night reboot or something.... But now it interests me less 🤷🤦🎬

[@montybruce6079]

Not sure if I'm wanting to see this but the shirt you might have me sold on getting 😂

[@leecrowder4934]

This movie is terrible and I really expected a better film from John Woo....

[@TheRealJPhillips]

HARD TARGET was my sht. John Woo

[@Bigman70001]

Cody please review Death Sentence 🙏 🙏

[@JSPokemonYT]

Just finished watching this movie earlier today & I really enjoyed it. The ending had me in tears. An easy 10/10

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

Lol this movie is getting destroyed by both users and critics. 10/10 sounds like you were paid.

[@JSPokemonYT]

@@JesusChrist2000BC It's called having am opinion.

[@SolesElegance]

@@JesusChrist2000BCBladerunner also got destroyed by the generics

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

10/10? That’s insane to me. To each our own. But I think the movie was boring. The ending was so emotionless. It was done poorly and way too ambiguous. Worst action movie of 2023.

[@garyparker4957]

I thought Mute did the silent protagonist well. Love your videos!

[@nilesengerman8263]

The Killer was his introduction into mainstream action (before hardboiled).

[@morse8026]

Actually it was A Better Tomorrow.

[@nilesengerman8263]

@@morse8026 even better😉

[@Gamzor]

it is called silent night, im not sure what people expected

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

People expected only the lead character has no dialogue. A movie like this needs enough dialogue to get invested in the story. Movie sucked.

[@Gamzor]

@@MaxNeugebauer. I was one of the set designers on this film . I think we finna throw hands

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

@@GamzorI’m not sure if that’s true or not. But it doesn’t matter. A movie like this has to have dialogue. I expected only the lead character to be silent throughout the whole movie. That’s how it should have been. Having any dialogue at all wouldn’t make the title misleading because the protagonist was going to be silent cause he lost his voice.

[@FaithStarLight28]

My partner says if you took Christmas out of Die Hard then the movie wouldn't make sense - that's why it's a Christmas film.

[@sarag.7156]

oh boy... I hoped you were gonna review Silent Night but the 2021 one! u__u

[@IHRZGHKIP]

I don't understand why you hate this movie. It's a prototypical John Woo movie. I was not bored through the first 30 minutes. I liked the training sequences. I get you on the Joel Kinnaman stuff. He's giving his all here. I loved that he just gave it all. I actually liked this movie. I really hope he gets something better. I love "For All Mankind". This movie was average. But, it wasn't horrible. Compared to "Aquaman 2" and fucking "Rebel Moon"? He's definitely the best one.

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

Aquaman 2 is way better than Silent Night.

[@IHRZGHKIP]

@MaxNeugebauer. not arguing that.

[@alexanderadonyae7937]

Nice shirt😈 The original Night of the Demons movie was 10× better than the sequel

[@blackopsrocks143]

Saw this last night. Definitely my favorite of the year

[@MaxNeugebauer.]

Lol

[@tomdue9782]

Can You please rank the Kubrick films?

[@seanyonthemic]

Yeah I was let down by this movie, Cody. I saw it last night as well and I’m one who doesn’t mind the gimmick of dialogue free…but I think this particular story would have worked better if it was only the protagonist who couldn’t speak. There was another film that this year that was without dialogue called “No One Will Save You”. The gimmick worked better in that film because you were following one character the entire time and it wasn’t awkward. Silent Night needed characters to speak in the film in my opinion. Great experiment that works in version stories. This film it does not. I did like some of the action though and the brutality. It’s enjoyable, but still middle of the road for me and a fair disappointment.

[@justaguy7230]

Cody. Man. I love you. But lethal weapon is much more of a Christmas movie than die hard. I’m sorry. It starts off with jingle bell rock, and it ends with Riggs giving murtaugh an amazing Xmas gift. Come on. Also, when it comes to John woo American movies, just stick with hard target and face off. 90s cheese 😊

[@malachiredhawk8401]

Nice T-Shirt Cody!