Violent Night - Filmanmeldelser (2024)

What elevates “Violent Night” beyond a silly holiday-themed action movie was its ability to balance the violence and heartwarming emotions.

Full review|June 8, 2024

An evil film with nothing to redeem.

Full review|4. October 2023

Filled with both warmth and cynicism, it creates a Santa Claus that is perfectly in tune with the times and symbolic of the joy and fear that characterize this time of year... a new Christmas classic.

Full review|6 augustus 2023

Violent Night is one of the biggest surprises of the year and will instantly become a modern Christmas classic! David Harbor expertly embodies a shockingly brutal, ferocious version of Santa Claus that somehow still delivers beautiful messages.

Full review| Original score: A- |25. July 2023

Violent Night is an instant CHRISTMAS CLASSIC. A bloody, gnarly and silly time that brings the laughs, the action and most of all, the Christmas magic! David Harbor is definitely the most realistic Santa you can put in a movie

Full review|25. July 2023

No right-thinking person would consider Violent Night an eternal classic, but Harbor inspires enough ho-ho-hos and cheeky holiday chaos to warrant a watch.

Full review|26 mei 2023

If there's one thing about Harbor that's always sung about, it's the charisma he can create with virtually any material and actor on screen. He's also a very tall man who stands tall and makes a dad bod look more attractive than Zac Efron ever could.

Full review| Original score: B+ |February 8, 2023

When I want a bad Santa, I watch Bad Santa. That's not to say there isn't some degree of worthy seasonal mockery in Violent Night.

Full review| Original score: 2.5/4 |February 5, 2023

It's not a holiday classic like Die Hard, but it's a decent temporary remedy for the obligatory holiday cheer.

Full review|January 27, 2023

“Violent Night” is as advertised. It's more vicious than you'd expect from this action comedy, but it starts on a high level of badass with Santa pouting at someone and just goes from there.

Full review| Original score: 4/5 |January 26, 2023

Funny take on Santa, but we have to hold Harbor to Billy Bob standards.

Full review| Original score: 5/10 |January 16, 2023

Over-the-top violent, laced with a thick layer of pitch-black humor, enhanced by a formidable turn from Havn and filled to the brim with hard-hitting set pieces, Violent Night knows exactly what it wants to be, but doesn't. Don't really try to be anything else.

Full review| Original score: 3/5 |January 11, 2023

David Harbor owns the screen as the initially grumpy but still very caring and ultimately tough Mr. Claus.

Full review| Original score: 3.5/5 |January 6, 2023

“Die Hard” meets Michael Dougherty’s “Krampus” meets “Bad Santa,” with a full shot of Christmas adrenaline.

Full review|January 1, 2023

An excellent Harbor leads the cast, and a great Legui-zamo is a perfect antagonist.

Full review| Original score: 3.5/5 |28 december 2022

It's heartwarming violence, very cheerful carnage and holly, but it also got me in the Christmas spirit.

Full review|28 december 2022

Many films have tried to recreateDie hards festive, carefree sass. No film has come closer to this lofty goal than this insanely delicious Nightmare Before Christmas.

Full review| Original score: 4/5 |24 december 2022

John McClane's Bad Santa may think it's some kind of subversive anti-Christmas movie alternative, but its best moments aren't about violence but about our hero rediscovering the joy the season once offered as his own relief from the evil in the world.

Full review| Original score: 2/4 |22 december 2022

It's a Santa movie where old Saint Nick is a badass action hero. Imagine Die Hard meets John Wick and Home Alone. It's a lot of fun and quite over the top and gory, but in a weird way, quite endearing at times.

Full review| Original score: 7.5/10 |21 december 2022

Violent Night is an unforgettable new holiday action classic, perfect for those who want to hate that Die Hard is a holiday classic - now you have one that's undeniable.

Full review| Original score: A |20 december 2022