Went to the world premiere Friday night at New York Comic-Con.

If you took Nobody, mixed it with Die Hard, and added hilariously dark humor, you get this.

I hope this does well so we can have a new franchise.

There's 3 kills where the entire audience stood up and clapped.

Don't watch the trailer as it spoils a lot. Including one of the best kills

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Would have been great to see in a theater with a crowd.

Harbour is great and you can tell he's having a ball.

Being an 87/11 production, the action is well-done but wisely not over-choreographed/stylized. The movie is more meat and potatoes, 80's B-action film in its sensibilities and is all the better for it.

The script is WAY better than it has any need to be. The movie is VERY funny but it's also inventive and smart enough to 1. know what kind of movie it is 2. be just the right amount of campy and ridiculous 3. mix things up enough to make thing feel fresh and fun.

It's also really well cast in the Die Hard tradition where the leads are perfect and even the henchmen have memorable moments/lines.

As much as I liked this, I don't really want this to become a franchise because it's such a little gem of a movie that I'd hate for the returns to start rapidly diminishing in a set of sequels that can't harness lightning in a bottle again.

I really do hope it becomes a cult Christmas classic though.

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I didn’t like the “edgelord” script stuff. Kinda thought the movie was at its best when it was earnest, Santa and the kid bonding, etc. The opening where he pukes on the lady’s head, all the family “tee hee they said something profane” shit… just wasn’t for me. The premise and violence are shocking enough without the eyeroll-inducing humor.

But the action was good, the kills were occasionally great (the last one, holy smokes), and Harbour is the right guy to do this kind of thing.

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feel like installments in some imaginary john wick universe ive created in my head.

Flagrant rip-off of John Wick. No originality, all baked in irony. Loathed it.

Loved Nobody. One of the first action movies in recent memory where the theme is "getting to beat the shit out of people is fun and fulfilling." And the action ripped.

Violent Night is somewhere in the middle. Didn't love it, didn't loathe it.

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Not bad! I agree with Frank, it's a full step below Nobody, but there are some good nuggets here.

Santa's origins seem interesting. I'd love an origin story.

One nit pick.

Why not a four note cue to Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, when he finds the hammer?

Him working that sledge was a thing of beauty. A little tongue in cheek levity would have taken that sequence to a next level.

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I expected Santa to be much more of a badass.

I know he got busy with the hammer

But I didn't like how vulnerable he was for much of the film

I was looking forward to Santa wrecking shop with little resistance.

I know that skirts the usual formula, but sometimes I like an OP hero.

I think a nigh-invincible Santa would have made for a better film. We could have kept all the stuff with the girl. I'd have preferred his big obstacle to be psychological, in that he swore of killing and refused to return to his old ways. They *kind of* touched on that, but they didn't really go there.

Instead he just got his ass kicked for half the film.

I get what they were going for, but I too was really hoping for an Invicible Nick type of flick.

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was a high point.

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It's like True set out to show Kevin how it's done: no half measures.

Granted, she had the advantage of the movie for the pregame, but still.

That kid wasn't fucking around.