And now the inspired action filmmaker, John Woo, 77, delivers the merciless revenge shoot-em-up, “Silent Night.” Woo’s pictures have always operated on the “pure cinema” principle.

and for images that sear themselves into one’s subconscious. There’s nothing remotely memorable here. A boring, weightless revenge experiment that quickly goes awry, Silent Night features none ...

“Silent Night” is not, as its title might suggest ... In one of the film’s first images, a red balloon floats above an inner-city neighborhood, suggesting — much as Fritz Lang did all ...

“Silent Night” is not that silent after all. The 19th-century Austrian Christmas carol has been covered so many times by so many artists that if you take the 2 minutes and 40 seconds of Bing ...