Violent Night review: David Harbour takes the reins of a wildly naughty slay ride
When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day .Take the fight sequence that finds Santa pulling out toys at random from his Mary Poppins-like magic sack, hoping to wield one as a weapon until he not only embeds an ornamental star in a foe’s eye, but plugs in its lights so that his adversary’s head catches fire.
with an R rating. Leah Brady’s precocious young Trudy, recently influenced by that very Christmas classic, stages an escalating series of booby traps that take both viewers and her poor assailants by surprise. At my screening, audience members gave the sequence a deserved standing ovation.The laughs-per-minute ratio is so high during those fight scenes that everything between them can feel like lulls.
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