Woo's gritty action film is the ultimate revenge story full of epically volatile fight sequences, savage gun-play & gloriously coordinated combat tactics. With no dialogue Woo stuns audiences with his brilliant visuals & the movies use of sight and sound.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 29, 2025

Is Silent Night an overall good film from start to finish? I can’t quite say that. Did I still have a good time with it? Oh my goodness, yes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2024

Silent Night is old-school John Woo with a new-school twist. It uses the lack of dialogue to its advantage, weaving a narrative free of exposition and fully reliant on the skills of Kinnaman and Woo to carry the story forward.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 28, 2024

The film tries to push its “no dialogue” gimmick as a selling point, but in reality, it only hurts the film by making it an awkward experience for both the actors on the screen and the audience watching it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2024

A cacophony of bad.

| Original Score: F | Jul 3, 2024

Silent Night works very well in terms of action. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 24, 2024

All is not calm, all is not bright in John Woo's propulsive return to Hollywood with this violent, emotionally tacit slice of vigilante vitriol.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2024

Silent Night can’t touch Woo’s all-timers, but it’s still an entertaining, action heavy ride with some surprising heart.

| Feb 9, 2024

There are a couple of Woo's trademark visual flourishes, but by the final act, you'll be yearning for a good old-fashioned expletive to enliven the drab proceedings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 12, 2024

John Woo’s first American film in 20 years is not the filmmaker at his peak — but it has its moments, with energetically filmed action enough to distract from a melodramatic tone and sometimes silly concept.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2024

For my money, Woo has never been traditionally scripted. Silent Night is not an outlier for Woo, in other words--it's a meticulously-engineered vehicle for action.

| Jan 5, 2024

Silent Night won’t leave you speechless this holiday season.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 1, 2024

Woo could create action-filled cinema with some emotional resonance, but Silent Night can’t keep up. The final battle and stairway shootout save the film, but don’t expect the wall-to-wall action seen in John Wick.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 28, 2023

The film is scuppered by its own gimmick.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2023

The gimmick of having no dialogue in a movie quickly becomes boring in the idiotic action flick Silent Night, which has too many repetitive scenes of the vigilante protagonist preparing for his revenge mission.

| Dec 23, 2023

Woo’s ability to choreograph mayhem in beautifully bloody fashion, meanwhile, can still be a thrill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2023

In an era that everything has to be socially relevant and politically-correct, “Silent Night” offers an audiovisual extravaganza filled with the most entertaining fanservice, in a blast from the past that actually feels reinvigorating.

| Original Score: 7.5 | Dec 17, 2023

...all-too-quickly collapses under the weight of its intriguing yet progressively untenable gimmick...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 16, 2023

This comeback movie has a lot of what Woo is famous for, such as operatic gunfights, but it also has something new: there is almost no dialogue over the 104-minute run-time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2023

Those wanting a John Woo return will have to wait. Unfortunately, Silent Night is too bland, boring, and poorly made to bring him back to the mainstream.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 15, 2023