History Film / SilentNight2023

* TheDragon: Venus, Playa’s girlfriend. One senior gang member named Ruiz also puts up a very long and vicious fight before [[spoiler:[[BoomHeadshot getting a 5.56 bullet under the chin]]]].

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Not literally, but Godlock's sole motivation for most of the movie is to kill the gangsters who killed his son.
* SilenceIsGolden: Barring one or two lines by Saya, the only lines of dialogue in the entire movie are over a police dispatch.
* SignatureStyle: Almost entirely averted: the film lacks many of the usual Creator/JohnWoo trappings you'd expect to see in his action movies, with the one major nod to his style being the scene when Detective Vassel goes GunsAkimbo on a group of gangsters. But even then he drops the second gun after that and only continues with his issue sidearm. Godlock also carries and uses a pair of Woo's favorite gun, the Beretta 92, but only one at a time.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Zig-Zagged. Even though [[spoiler:she's been shooting at them both with a machine pistol, Godlock hesitates to shoot Venus once he has the drop on her, giving her the opportunity to pull a backup weapon and critically wound both him and Det. Vassel. He quickly comes to his senses after that and puts a bullet in her brain.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: The protagonist tries to do this by getting two gangs to fight each other. He succeeds, but the collateral damage (including a police officer who is killed even as he tries to rescue her) disturbs him.

* TheDragon: Venus, Playa’s girlfriend. One senior gang member named Ruiz also puts up a very long and vicious fight before [[spoiler: [[BoomHeadshot getting a 5.56 bullet under the chin]].

* TheDragon: Venus, Playa’s girlfriend.

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Godluck kills Playa by strangling him to death.]]

* TheDragon: Playa’s unnamed girlfriend.

Kinnaman stars as Brian Godlock, a father whose life is shattered when a GanglandDriveBy shooting takes his voice… and his son’s life. Enraged, he vows vengeance upon his attackers and sets forth to kill them all on Christmas Eve. [[SilenceIsGolden The film is almost dialogue free]], due to the father’s injury - hence the title - and was released in theaters December 1, 2023.

'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/yBnTqn0lBDA?si=aOlXQ3ckKYx8jabf Trailer]]

* AdvertisingByAssociation: Aside from John Woo’s involvement, the trailer also mentions that the film is from the producers of ''Film/JohnWick''.
* AnAssKickingChristmas: Godlock makes a point to note on his calendar - on December 24, no less - to “kill them all,” exactly one year after his son was killed.

* {{Bookends}}: The murder of Godlock’s son happens on Christmas Eve, and so does the final showdown with Playa and his men.

* LogoGag: The “o” in the Creator/{{Lionsgate}} logo at the start of the trailer is a Christmas wreath.

* StormingTheCastle: The climax has Godlock launching an assault on the GI-7’s hideout to take down [[BigBad Playa]] and destroy the gang.

Kinnaman stars as a father whose life is shattered when a shooting takes his voice… and his son’s life. Enraged, he vows vengeance upon his attackers and sets forth to kill them all on Christmas Eve. [[SilenceIsGolden The film is set to be almost dialogue free]], due to the father’s injury - hence the title - and will be released in theaters December 1, 2023.

* AnAssKickingChristmas: Godlock makes a point to note on his calendar - on December 24, no less - to “kill them all”, exactly one year after his son was killed.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The movie analyzes what it would be like for an ordinary guy who became able to do action tropes. Fittingly, his first attack on the gang--which includes cool action moves like him tricking an enemy gangster into running into a forklift such that the forklift's prongs decapitate the gangster--ends with Playa shooting him in the neck and permanently muting him. His attempt to pull off an EnemyCivilWar gambit by starting a gang war does get two gangs shooting at each other, but also kills some innocent policemen. Every time he pulls off an action stunt he pays for it in some way, [[spoiler:and in the end, he dies after killing Playa. His letter to Saya also explains how he already considered that he might not make it that far, but had nothing else left to lose.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: The movie analyzes what it would be like for an ordinary guy who became able to do action tropes. Fittingly, his first attack on the gang--which includes cool action moves like him tricking an enemy gangster into running into a forklift such that the forklift's prongs decapitate the gangster--ends with Playa shooting him in the neck and permanently muting him. His attempt to pull off an EnemyCivilWar gambit by starting a gang war does get two gangs shooting at each other, but also kills some innocent policemen. Every time he pulls off an action stunt he pays for it in some way, [[spoiler:and in the end, he dies after killing Playa.]]

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Subverted. During the EnemyCivilWar, Godlock tries to save a wounded female police officer, only for her to be shot InTheBack as he tries to get her in his car.

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* AnAssKickingChristmas: In the trailer, the father makes a point to note on his calendar - on December 24, no less - to “kill them all”.

Kinnaman stars as a father whose life is shattered when a shooting takes his voice… and his son’s life. Enraged, he vows vengeance upon his attackers and sets forth to kill them all on Christmas Eve. The film is set to be almost dialogue free, due to the father’s injury - hence the title - and will be released in theaters December 1, 2023.

* MoodyTrailerCoverSong: The trailer uses a mix of "Carol of the Bells" and "Ode to Joy" in this fashion (with lots of OrchestralBombing synchronized to gunshots and explosions).

* SilenceIsGolden: The first major silent film to release since ''Film/TheArtist''.

[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Nothing speaks louder than revenge.]]'']]

'''Previews:''' [[https://ew.com/movies/silent-night-trailer-john-woo-joel-kinnaman/ Trailer (Entertainment Weekly exclusive)]]

''Silent Night'' is a 2023 holiday action movie written by Robert Archer Lynn and directed by Creator/JohnWoo in his first American film since