Silent Night 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

In the course of a gang war, an accidental bullet deprives the family of a young son, and the father who was covering him - of his voice. A year later, Dad declares war on all criminals who get in his way.

Silent Night 4K Review
Brian (Yoel Kinnaman) is an ordinary working man living with his wife (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and son in a private home in the middle of a not the safest neighborhood in Los Angeles. Family happiness lasted exactly until Christmas Eve, when on the road adjacent to the house Brian, cars flew out with gangsters shooting at each other from all barrels. A stray bullet hit the child, the distraught father caught up with the criminals but suffered a throat wound. Coming to himself in the hospital, Brian realized that he lost not only the dearest person, but also the ability to speak. The hero lost the meaning of life and locked himself in the garage with a bottle, shutting himself off from the world and his grieving wife - there was only pain and burning from the inside thirst for retribution. Revenge won out in the end, Brian marked out a calendar and set himself a goal: next Christmas Eve to kill the villains responsible for his son's death. The man bought a car, equipment and began learning shooting and hand-to-hand combat.

The return of John Woo, known for cult films "Hardboiled," "No Face" and "Mission: Impossible 2," to Hollywood has been a bit of a blur. The director has spent the last 20 years making exclusively historical dramas for Chinese audiences and seems to have missed the action revolution brought on by Gareth Evans, Chad Stahelski and David Litch, and as a curtsy to younger audiences, he called up Kid Cady for one of the roles. To expect from "Silent Fury" inventive hurricane action from the first frames - a big mistake. Silent hero Kinnaman grieves and concentrates on preparing for the main night in his new life for a good half of the movie. Woo scrupulously guides Brian through all stages of grief, like a proud father, records the hero's successes in mastering cold and firearms, and the first fight with a bandit captured for interrogation, savoring for ten minutes.

But to say that "Mute Fury" looks unimpressive in moments of calm would also be a mistake. It's the lack of dialog that plays into the movie's hands. The audience is chained to Brian, other characters exist on the periphery of vision. The hero's inability to utter a word makes "Silent Fury" a fascinating visual narrative attraction. Wu's camera is agile, inquisitive and, in contrast to Brian's, nicely verbose. Not once during the movie does the audience question what's happening on screen, which suggests that the 77-year-old director hasn't lost his touch at all.

The signature style, well known to audiences since John Woo's Hong Kong days, hasn't gone anywhere. Shots are as bright and deafening, everything around the heroes explodes and burns, chases are crazy and realistic at the same time, and at the right moments time slows down, savoring particularly impressive shots of the massacre of enemies. The trademark Macedonian-style shooting is also in place. Brian is an ordinary man, not some legendary killer with Slavic roots or an operative of a top-secret military organization. The hero, who surrendered under the pressure of circumstances to the madness of revenge, is scared, he makes stupid mistakes and gets wounded, in moments of confusion gives slack and has no illusions about the outcome of the final battle.

The strengths and weaknesses of "Silent Fury" are paradoxically the same. The audience waited for John Woo's movie, and expectations were justified to the full. Viewing the action movie is like a reunion after 20 years: nostalgia and old acquaintances fill the heart with warmth, but everyone realizes that at the end of the illusion will be destroyed. "Silent Fury" exists in a parallel reality, which is nice to dive into for a while, spend an hour and a half there and leave before the next attack of nostalgia.