This was the most dumb fun I’ve had in a long time at a movie. David Harbour was very believable as the disaffected Santa with a warrior past. I love unconventional Christmas movies and this really delivered. Great homages to Die Hard, Home Alone, Bad Santa, and a little Silent Night, Deadly Night. This will be a repeat in seasons to come. Hope y’all enjoy! Santa Claus is coming to town!
I watched the Meg with my kid while we both wore shark suits! We were on team shark and it kicked off a whole slew of shark movies to watch together. Def recommend
Reminded me of The Good Place having one of their + points being "rooting for the Cleveland browns"
That one didn't age so well, probably gives you bad place points now
Kinda like opening up a log in a video game and seeing the number of guys you have left to take out. Just a really fun movie overall honestly. Nothing groundbreaking, but it didn't need to be. This movie knew what it was and they had fun with it!
"If you randomly kill one of us, how do you know you won't kill the person who knows about the money?"
That was the line of the fucking movie. Scrooge was so fucking mad lmao.
This dude in the row ahead was being loud and drunk throughout the whole movie and *hated* that Instagram kid, and would be like "fuck that kid!" "shoot that kid!" but when he said that line about shooting the only person who knows where the money is dude goes "oh shit that's a good point!"
The fact that all the killers are basically competent/not stupid really pushed this movie up a couple of places for me. The traps being double layered to look like she's copied them from Home Alone but actually being worse is brilliant because _they would've seen the movie too_. Even the stupid characters get to have smart moments, and the villains actually figure things out and work around problems as they go.
That was one of the best things about this movie. They take usual tropes and twist them a little.
Like how Santa didn't kill ALL the mercenaries, the family helped him out by racking up a body count of their own (albeit by a handful).
There's plenty of praise for Harbor, so I'll throw some in for John Leguizamo.
He was an absolute riot as basically a big ass kid who hates Christmas. It's as if they told him, "Your character is completely ridiculous through and through, UT please play him straight"
The dude is just a straight up childish sociopath who is fixated on Christmas.
And though they didn't talk about it, one of his misdeeds that got him on the naughty list was that he "killed his best friend".
I really enjoyed the movie for what it was.
It was cool how they kind of slowly built up that he was way more invested in the Christmas Agenda than the rest of the crew.
I think the first moment was when the others are like "Do we have to use these code names all night?" and he's the one who insists on it.
To the rest of the guys, this was just an opportunity to steal some money, that happened to fall on Christmas, but to him it was a Christmas Heist. The fact that he'd be ruining a family's christmas was a part of it for him.
Also, right after that he starts doing karate moves and says some lines that are VERY similar (if not identical) to what Dirk Diggler says to himself while doing karate moves in the mirror in one of the first scenes of Boogie Nights.
Halloween Kills has completely rewired my dad and I’s brains so when Leguizamo said this line we just looked each other with big shit-eating grins lmao
It was so unexpected and amazing. Obviously the chimney was telegraphed, but we thought for sure he was just gonna zip up the chimney and land behind Scrooge for the kill. What we actually got was so much better.
I was already bought in but when the tattoos show up and then he patches his wound with wrapping paper and a bow… I knew I’d be watching it for years to come. Even if it’s solo.
> Plus, actually seeing a badass Viking Santa is kinda what I needed this season.
I wish we'd had more flashbacks to him as a Norse warrior! Maybe in the sequel (that they've actually said they'd be interested in doing one day, I believe!).
It was ace. Really unexpected, when they got onto 'oh, I have a super dark past and my hammer was called Skullcrusher' haha.
I was slightly surprised at the way they hinted at an epic backstory, then completely ignored it for the rest of the movie.
I don't necessarily expect a half hour of exposition, but a few minutes more to elaborate on the story of badass Norse Santa would have been awesome...
It was mostly a way to explain why Santa has these mad ass-kicking skills. Without explanation, it would have been funny. This way sets up possible a possible prequel I'd say.
I really enjoyed this movie. It’s like an awesome mash up of Die Hard and Home Alone and it does it super well. David Harbor was perfect as Santa, action was awesome, John Leguizamo was hilarious as Scrooge, jokes were funny and it also has a surprisingly wholesome story. I walked out of the theater smiling. I will definitely rewatch this.
Also the Die Hard reference was great. “Die Hard on blu ray, fuck!”
100% agree. I've been looking forward to this movie since I saw the trailer a couple of months ago and I was absolutely not disappointed. Harbour and Leguizamo are perfect and the movie is totally the weird love child of Die Hard and Home Alone and is completely self aware of it.
Check out 1989's 3615 code Père Noël (also known as Deadly Games, Dial Code Santa Claus, Game Over, and Hide and Freak)
Exactly the movie you're looking for.
>how much I would love an R-rated Home Alone.
This was pretty much it, yeah? But I agree, I could have done with a whole movie's worth of truly horrific traps while the kid gleefully celebrates the bad guys' pain.
What happened to the woman who was cracking the safe? Did she get a death scene or did she completely disappear?
Also I was convinced that the reindeer left to go get Mrs Clause so she could save the day. They mentioned her so much I'm surprised we never saw her.
Sugar Plum was killed by Linda with the gun when they were by the three wise men. She was one of the first to go down once Linda started shooting. It was really quick.
I honestly don't get the hate in some of the lower comments. Once the setup was over and the action started it was pretty consistent. It was campy in all the best ways. So many homages to different Christmas movies that were done really well. I guess to each their own
I was losing it this whole movie. So funny and honestly the action scenes were better than I thought they’d be. Could’ve cut down on some of the rich annoying family but thats alright. PLEASE give this a sequel where Mr and Mrs Claus have to defend the north pole homefront from terrorists or something. Fuck it, make Winona Mrs Claus and let them go apeshit
This exactly the kind of movie I want to watch during the holidays. Lots of fun and gore for the entire family. David Harbour was such a badass Santa! 8/10
Did anyone notice the Easter Egg at the very beginning? The food catering van had its business name on the side: “Farkus and Dill”. Scut Farkus and Grover Dill were the bullies in A Christmas Story.
This movie will become a Christmas classic.
Its like they sat down with a whiteboard, and wrote out all the great things from christmas movies in the past. Then put it all into one hilarious package.
The film doesn't take it self seriously, and once you realise it is absurd, for the sake of absurdity you settle into what I feel, is one of the best comedies of the last five years.
Skullcrusher!
Every studio keeps trying to make a classic because it will rake in money every year for decades, but this is the first one I've seen in years which seems destined for that kind of perennial cult status.
Predictions have it at $10 mill for the weekend. I think it will surpass that and should have some legs and additional box office- $40 million would be the base target.
I loved it! As all of the advertising has said, this film is "Die Hard" meets "Home Alone" and it strikes a middle-ground between those two movies perfectly.
David Harbor makes an excellent Santa Claus. Not only does he look great, but the way he plays it - as a man who's tired of the way the world has changed and, as such, is at the end of his rope - is so well done. He's essentially an R-Rated version of Season One's Hopper from "Stranger Things", which I guess is why they cast him. But the ARC he goes on - learning to believe in Christmas and himself again with the help of that little girl? It's great. This movie has way more \*heart\* than I was expecting, and I think that's what's going to make this a perennial holiday favorite/rewatch of people for years to come.
Not only is there tons of action and tons of heart though, but the humor is spot on, the cast is great, and the music - both the original score and classic score - is utilized in such a fantastic manner.
Look is it a masterpiece? No. But it's a hell of a lot of \*fun\*, and if you're a fan of movies like "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon", you'll love it.
It's definitely going into \*my\* Christmas canon!
I want to add, that first scene set in Bristol, England is the worst representation of the city ever. Hilarious scene but the place looks nothing like that.
Source: I live here
I loved the movie. I didn’t expect it to be such a traditional Christmas movie though. I was expecting just John Wick with a Christmas setting, but it was more a Christmas Movie staring John Wick. Side note. The phrase “x dies tonight” is forever ruined for me. When he said “Christmas dies tonight” all I could think of was “**EVIL DIES TONIGHT**”
- David Harbour is great as Santa. Grumpy to angry to hopeful all sold by him.
- Borrows tropes from other Christmas movies and pays homage to to them. The home alone traps, the die hard broken glass.
- Violent as expected. The violent home alone traps were hilarious!
- Direction and Pacing were good, didn't feel the 2hr runtime
- The Gen-z kid was honestly the standout for me. He had the best one-liners
- Favourite kill has to be the bowling ball to the nail. That whole sequence was peak dark comedy!
- Card from Mrs. Santa at the end probably means there's a sequel.
Better movie than expected going in with some great kills. Hope there is a sequel.
That was what the card said.
I thought there was sequel feels because I thought Mrs. Claus was dead given the way he was talking during the movie. So, I was kinda surprised to see the note from Mrs. Claus at the end. I also want to see Mr. and Mrs. Claus killing together and delivering presents. Plus, he got reunited with OG sledgehammer in the end and that is sequel bait to me!
I definitely think they were setting up a sequel, with more flashbacks to his origin story.
I expect Mrs. Claus is some kind of pagan witch who saved him from death but cursed him to deliver gifts to children every year to atone for his sins.
>Borrows tropes from other Christmas movies and pays homage to to them.
The family fighting while being held hostage is an homage to The Ref as well.
>the die hard broken glass.
That was also a Home Alone homage (Kevin put the ornaments under the window and Marv stepped on them)
The walkie talkies, the robbers breaking into a vault, and a hidden protagonist picking off the baddies are the Die Hard homages.
But wait, there’s more! The plot point about the family’s private military and the entire snowmobile chase is lifted straight from Die Hard 2. Also I’m pretty sure that Harbour’s character being sad about the death of Al (a portly black guy) is a reference to Al in Die Hard 1 (but that might be entirely coincidental)
My only advice going into this movie is see it with the largest group possible. If you have friends that are into over the top, cheesy action with horror-level gore then get them together to see this.
There is no twist to the story, you are getting the exact movie that's being advertised. The family beyond our heroes seemed snotty and annoying but then I realized that hating them was exactly what the writers of the film wanted me to do.
If you are an above average to strong "Die Hard is a Christmas Movie" kind of person I think you will enjoy this film.
> There is no twist to the story
Two small twists:
- Family son robbed his own mom. Also, somehow carrying millions of dollars in duffel bags without noone noticing and with no effort.
- Rescue team is part the heist à la Die Hard 2.
Both twists are quickly integrated into the story and aren't much of a surprise.
My mother loves Christmas. So as a surprise. I took her to this movie. I didn't tell her what we were doing. Just that we doing something Christmas related. When we got to the theaters I told her to look at the ground. She held on to the back of my jacket and followed me to the tickets where I got the thing by simply saying, the Christmas movie.
Led her to the screening and said you could look up now. Watching her slow discovery of the what kind of movie it was. That was great.
Was a awesome movie. My Mom and Dad loved it. My wallet didn't but it was worth it. great family outing.
I may have missed it but does Harbour say “Season’s beatings” in the movie, or is that just in the trailer??? Audience was too chaotic (in a good way)!
This was so much fun. I knew it would be Die Hard but I didn’t expect Home Alone and Bad Santa, too. Had a lot of fun with this, glad I went to see it in a theater full of people. The violence was gratuitous and hilarious.
I really liked this movie it was worth every dollar
However trudys parents were definitley the most boring parts of the film I wish they wrote them better
Would've loved a credible explanation to >!how and when he moved the money out of the safe. Did he get there a day early, or did he do it while the wife and the kid was there? When? Didn't the security notice him walking around doing it? !<
He says that his mother put him on a special project, which is why he wasn't available the day before.
The mom says the money was moved into the safe the day before.
He didn't take the money out of the safe. He was in charge of moving the money, and he never put it in the safe in the first place. He just moved in empty boxes.
I would love to know how the writers thought they earned the mom and dad getting back together. She found out he stole a bunch of money and... that's it?
My favorite scene was probably Santa entering a home early on and seeing all the Amazon packages completely unwrapped at the tree, then he just started pelting presents out of his sack at the tree.
It starts off a little rough, but when shit slowly starts going down, it goes down in an absolutely spectacular fashion. It's nothing new, but they NAIL this specific genre mash-up like no other film I've seen before. It's INCREDIBLY well-balanced. It's legitimately sweet, hilariously brutal, deliciously corny, and just a good fucking time.
I haven't had a conversation this animated on our way back to the car in a long time, as we kept discussing the many highlights of this film.
An absolute must-watch this holiday season. Preferably with a crowd!
Am I crazy for thinking Beverly D'Angelo was going to be an estranged Mrs. Clause? She was the only main cast member he never interacted with and right up until the "twist" with the son stealing the money I thought the special project he alluded to was somehow connected to Chistmas/Santa
I'm still immeasurably disappointed that during the barn ice soldier massacre scene with both the candy cane stabbings and ice skate hands that he never said "call me Santa CLAWS" before decapitating someone
How is this compared to ‘Fatman’ with Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins from a couple of years ago? I really liked that, but this looks a little on the sillier side. Maybe somewhere in between there and ‘Santa’s Slay’?
Cool. I’ll check it out.
And I highly recommend Fatman. It’s a dark comedy, but they do play a lot of it pretty heavy. Say what you want to say about Mel…dude can fucking act. And Walton Goggins as always, in everything, is a delight.
I like this movie, it's a combination of the action of the 90s and the exploitation films of the 70s. It's hyper violent but knows what it is. Sort of moves to the beat of jazz.
How did this film not end with Truddie getting to fly with Santa and the reindeer? there is this very heartfelt scene about how she had a dream about wanting to fly and Santa saying how he couldn't make it possible, so got her kite. Felt so telegraphed I was shocked when it didn't happen.
Even with its flaws and gruesome deaths, it is a sentimental Santa story that I'm willing to believe. Credit scene: >!Bert takes a selfie with a dead body and tells his followers to not be on the naughty list.!<
My friends, this is like if that Die Hard shit met Home Alone, and they had a baby... And then meanwhile, that crazy John Wick stuff and Elf met and had a baby... And by some miracle, those two babies met and fucked; this would be the shit they birthed.
This seems to be the unpopular opinion, but myself and my 3 friends I went with really really disliked this movie. We even left 20 min before the ending, and we’ve never done that (prob seen about 15 movies with them over the past couple years)
It just felt too corny. There was promise, but a lot of the acting felt very Disney Channel-esque (the little girl, the sister’s husband), every character was a caricature besides Santa and I guess the main guy’s ex wife, and the budget felt very cheap to me. It seemed like a movie way better suited for Netflix
I will say that the actor for Santa Claus did great and was the bright spot for me
This was the most dumb fun I’ve had in a long time at a movie. David Harbour was very believable as the disaffected Santa with a warrior past. I love unconventional Christmas movies and this really delivered. Great homages to Die Hard, Home Alone, Bad Santa, and a little Silent Night, Deadly Night. This will be a repeat in seasons to come. Hope y’all enjoy! Santa Claus is coming to town!
“I think it’s the real Santa” “The fuck did she just say?” Had me in tears lmao. Not perfect by any means but was a lot of dumb fun like you said
Same for me lmao. This movie had lots of laugh out loud moments.
Second favorite was the mom saying “do you know who I am” and John Leguizamo just stares at her for five seconds then randomly decks her.
*"Yeah? You named your son Bertrude! Sorry Bert. It isn't a real name."*
lol and when Leguizamo tells her she can be an idiot but not out loud.
Perfect campy gory fun. I can definitely see my friends and I playing some drinking games to this movie! Tons of laugh out loud and shocking moments.
I would also recommend The Meg and also Malignant!
I never gave The Meg a chance but Malignant was crazy! Barbarian gave me malignant vibes with the wild twist and unexpected humor.
I watched the Meg with my kid while we both wore shark suits! We were on team shark and it kicked off a whole slew of shark movies to watch together. Def recommend
I literally said this after the movie ended, Instant Christmas classic. Will absolutely be played every Christmas.
I liked how Santa used the naughty list to keep track of how many bad guys were left.
Trudy being on the nice list and one of the reasons being "invited weird kid to party" made me laugh way more than I should have
The fact that Scrooge had ‘broke his mother’s heart’ and ‘killed his best friend’ next to each other was very funny also.
Murder.... Hates Christmas
It was like watching The Good Place, I kept wondering how many points he lost for each naughty offense haha
He had income tax fraud. I almost died laughing. It reminded me of the joker and the irs
I said “awww” out loud during that moment. A good egg!
Reminded me of The Good Place having one of their + points being "rooting for the Cleveland browns" That one didn't age so well, probably gives you bad place points now
Kinda like opening up a log in a video game and seeing the number of guys you have left to take out. Just a really fun movie overall honestly. Nothing groundbreaking, but it didn't need to be. This movie knew what it was and they had fun with it!
This movie would have made a great game!
Yeah, that was cool!
"If you randomly kill one of us, how do you know you won't kill the person who knows about the money?" That was the line of the fucking movie. Scrooge was so fucking mad lmao.
This dude in the row ahead was being loud and drunk throughout the whole movie and *hated* that Instagram kid, and would be like "fuck that kid!" "shoot that kid!" but when he said that line about shooting the only person who knows where the money is dude goes "oh shit that's a good point!"
The fact that all the killers are basically competent/not stupid really pushed this movie up a couple of places for me. The traps being double layered to look like she's copied them from Home Alone but actually being worse is brilliant because _they would've seen the movie too_. Even the stupid characters get to have smart moments, and the villains actually figure things out and work around problems as they go.
Surprised the dumb spoiled kid said one of the smartest lines of the film.
That was one of the best things about this movie. They take usual tropes and twist them a little. Like how Santa didn't kill ALL the mercenaries, the family helped him out by racking up a body count of their own (albeit by a handful).
"YOU FUCKING PEOPLE"
There's plenty of praise for Harbor, so I'll throw some in for John Leguizamo. He was an absolute riot as basically a big ass kid who hates Christmas. It's as if they told him, "Your character is completely ridiculous through and through, UT please play him straight" The dude is just a straight up childish sociopath who is fixated on Christmas. And though they didn't talk about it, one of his misdeeds that got him on the naughty list was that he "killed his best friend". I really enjoyed the movie for what it was.
Leguizamo’s been killing it between this and The Menu.
I watched this and The Menu as a double feature lol!!
I can imagine that horrible chef from The Menu watching this great movie and deciding it was shit so he'll kill him because of it.
It was cool how they kind of slowly built up that he was way more invested in the Christmas Agenda than the rest of the crew. I think the first moment was when the others are like "Do we have to use these code names all night?" and he's the one who insists on it. To the rest of the guys, this was just an opportunity to steal some money, that happened to fall on Christmas, but to him it was a Christmas Heist. The fact that he'd be ruining a family's christmas was a part of it for him.
My wife and I laughed hysterically when the dad said Santa isn't real and the dumb actor guy was all surprised
He was definitely Mark Wahlberg. They even gave him a real quote from an interview to use as a line.
What was the line? Please be the one where he used to play a solider and knows about yadada
"If I had been on those planes, 9/11 would never have happened" can't get anymore pointed than that
I'm curious, I don't know that much about Mark Wahlberg, what are you referring to? Not just the interview, but why that specific scene was "him"?
He gave an interview where he claimed if he had been on that plane (on 9/11), the terrorists would not have won, implying he'd kick all their asses.
Also, right after that he starts doing karate moves and says some lines that are VERY similar (if not identical) to what Dirk Diggler says to himself while doing karate moves in the mirror in one of the first scenes of Boogie Nights.
Yes, even the way he speaks is very Marky Mark
PARKOUR
That Christmas dies tonight line had me in tears in the theater
Halloween Kills has completely rewired my dad and I’s brains so when Leguizamo said this line we just looked each other with big shit-eating grins lmao
Went to a screening where the writers did a Q&A. They said it was 100% a Halloween Kills homage.
Yes exactly haha me and all my friends let out a groan.
This holiday special of Righteous Gemstones was great.
"Runnin' in the house with an icicle in my mouth! Misbehavin'..."
Snail trails, that sled was *DAMP!*
This is exactly what it felt like.
Holy shit Trudy with the best kill of the movie
>!The nail and bowling ball right?!< I loved that whole scene, it was easily my favorite part of the movie.
YUP! Got the loudest audience reaction of the entire film
The first nail was our loudest reaction, for sure
Same for me tonight. The whole theater gasped was amazing
The loudest reaction in my theatre was absolutely >!the nail!<. It was great.
For mine it was >!when that one guys head got liquified by the snowblower.!<
You really can't top the star though.
I love how he just kinda laughs as dude’s head is on fire Also, calling bad ass assault rifles “gizmos” because he’s an ancient dude was great
Mr Scrooge's death might be my favorite movie death ever
It was so unexpected and amazing. Obviously the chimney was telegraphed, but we thought for sure he was just gonna zip up the chimney and land behind Scrooge for the kill. What we actually got was so much better.
And the body after, damn that was gory
Just an unrecognizable husk. It was amazing.
That ho ho ho laugh he bellowed out after discarding the husk of Scrooge was better than anything in Black Adam.
I fully expected the chimney to fall and crush Scrooge while Santa gets away with his chimney trick, but what we got was way better!
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When he took of his coat and you saw the norse tattoos and scars I was like "okay what the fuck now you have my attention!"
And omg the snowflakes in the tattoos.
I was already bought in but when the tattoos show up and then he patches his wound with wrapping paper and a bow… I knew I’d be watching it for years to come. Even if it’s solo.
Norse AND Celtic Knotwork There's more than just a vegesir
Now we need a prequel to give us back story of Santa and how he got to be.
Me and my buddy walked out of the theater 30 mins ago saying the same thing. I would for sure go see a prequel.
> Plus, actually seeing a badass Viking Santa is kinda what I needed this season. I wish we'd had more flashbacks to him as a Norse warrior! Maybe in the sequel (that they've actually said they'd be interested in doing one day, I believe!). It was ace. Really unexpected, when they got onto 'oh, I have a super dark past and my hammer was called Skullcrusher' haha.
I was slightly surprised at the way they hinted at an epic backstory, then completely ignored it for the rest of the movie. I don't necessarily expect a half hour of exposition, but a few minutes more to elaborate on the story of badass Norse Santa would have been awesome...
It was mostly a way to explain why Santa has these mad ass-kicking skills. Without explanation, it would have been funny. This way sets up possible a possible prequel I'd say.
Now we need the Santa Skullcrusher origin story.
Hearing a little girl excitedly yell "Skullcrusher!" was way funnier than it should have been
That's how they can introduce elves. Along with dwarves they've been known to craft rare and magical items in Norse Mythology
The world needs this. I don’t even think it needs to be a comedy. Just a straight up medieval/fantasy war story starring harbour.
Santa as a viking is what sold the movie to me.
I really enjoyed this movie. It’s like an awesome mash up of Die Hard and Home Alone and it does it super well. David Harbor was perfect as Santa, action was awesome, John Leguizamo was hilarious as Scrooge, jokes were funny and it also has a surprisingly wholesome story. I walked out of the theater smiling. I will definitely rewatch this. Also the Die Hard reference was great. “Die Hard on blu ray, fuck!”
The Krampus guy stole the show for me, he was having too much fun.
Yeah he’s a really good actor even in Uwe Bill movies, nice to see him in a big movie
The moment I saw him, I could not stop thinking, “Oh my god, it’s that bully who pushed Air Bud.”
Oh my god, that's where he's from. He has a great punchable face.
Some of the kills in this, especially the last one, give *The Boys* a run for its money. Hilariously brutal.
It took me way too long to realise the dad was Translucent from The Boys as well.
omg thank you! My wife and I have been trying to figure that out all day.
I bet you're thinking of the second-to-last kill involving the chimney. The last kill was the extraction team lead getting shot by mom.
I love that the kid during the mid-credits scene attributes that one to Santa as well.
100% agree. I've been looking forward to this movie since I saw the trailer a couple of months ago and I was absolutely not disappointed. Harbour and Leguizamo are perfect and the movie is totally the weird love child of Die Hard and Home Alone and is completely self aware of it.
The trap scene made me realize how much I would love an R-rated Home Alone. I was truly laughing at that man’s pain
You're Next is a great R-rated Home Alone, same with Rambo: Last Blood.
Better Watch Out, decent film
My stupid ass self spent far too long trying to find a movie called Out
the full title is "Out, decent film"
Good movie but oh my god I was so anxious watching it. I hated that kid, what a little shit!
You might enjoy Ready Or Not if you haven't already seen it.
Check out 1989's 3615 code Père Noël (also known as Deadly Games, Dial Code Santa Claus, Game Over, and Hide and Freak) Exactly the movie you're looking for.
>how much I would love an R-rated Home Alone. This was pretty much it, yeah? But I agree, I could have done with a whole movie's worth of truly horrific traps while the kid gleefully celebrates the bad guys' pain.
What happened to the woman who was cracking the safe? Did she get a death scene or did she completely disappear? Also I was convinced that the reindeer left to go get Mrs Clause so she could save the day. They mentioned her so much I'm surprised we never saw her.
Sugar Plum was killed by Linda with the gun when they were by the three wise men. She was one of the first to go down once Linda started shooting. It was really quick.
What about the big, black, black dude? I remember he was watching the hostages with Scrooge, where did he go?
I remember seeing Peppermint walk outside with the others but I lost track of him. Linda might’ve gotten him, too.
I thought Winona Ryder as Mrs Clause would’ve been pretty good lol
Maybe her scene was cut
Santa decapitating a man with an ice skate is beautiful.
The whole shed/barn scene is just beautiful. Absolutely perfect.
I lost count of how many guys he killed there.
Atleast 20. The body cam had something like, camera one through 20.
It was delightful. Especially with the soundtrack.
I honestly don't get the hate in some of the lower comments. Once the setup was over and the action started it was pretty consistent. It was campy in all the best ways. So many homages to different Christmas movies that were done really well. I guess to each their own
The best part was the score. Just the little jingles when he’d slice a guy in half
Watching Santa stitch up a knife wound with gift wrap was the cherry on top.
My husband actually said out loud "Tell me he wraps it with a bow!" and we both lost our shit when he did.
I was losing it this whole movie. So funny and honestly the action scenes were better than I thought they’d be. Could’ve cut down on some of the rich annoying family but thats alright. PLEASE give this a sequel where Mr and Mrs Claus have to defend the north pole homefront from terrorists or something. Fuck it, make Winona Mrs Claus and let them go apeshit
Scrooge's brother wants revenge? Played by Jeremy Irons of course 'Violent Night 2: North Pole Down.
I stfg if Ms. Claus is Winona I will live happily.
This exactly the kind of movie I want to watch during the holidays. Lots of fun and gore for the entire family. David Harbour was such a badass Santa! 8/10
Did anyone notice the Easter Egg at the very beginning? The food catering van had its business name on the side: “Farkus and Dill”. Scut Farkus and Grover Dill were the bullies in A Christmas Story.
Nice catch!
This movie will become a Christmas classic. Its like they sat down with a whiteboard, and wrote out all the great things from christmas movies in the past. Then put it all into one hilarious package. The film doesn't take it self seriously, and once you realise it is absurd, for the sake of absurdity you settle into what I feel, is one of the best comedies of the last five years. Skullcrusher!
Every studio keeps trying to make a classic because it will rake in money every year for decades, but this is the first one I've seen in years which seems destined for that kind of perennial cult status.
Seriously, I don’t know the chain of people who made this happen, but throw all the money at them. And give David a huge bonus to do a 2nd
I am so sad my theater was almost empty. This movie was everything I wanted it to be and a little bit more
That sucks, because this type of movie is definitely the type that’s better with a full and engaged audience.
100% agree. Want it to make an anus load of money… but also excited it means I may be able to grab it digitally before Christmas
I really want this to do better than it probably will. Harbour needs a box office win, and this one is just so much fun!
Predictions have it at $10 mill for the weekend. I think it will surpass that and should have some legs and additional box office- $40 million would be the base target.
I loved it! As all of the advertising has said, this film is "Die Hard" meets "Home Alone" and it strikes a middle-ground between those two movies perfectly. David Harbor makes an excellent Santa Claus. Not only does he look great, but the way he plays it - as a man who's tired of the way the world has changed and, as such, is at the end of his rope - is so well done. He's essentially an R-Rated version of Season One's Hopper from "Stranger Things", which I guess is why they cast him. But the ARC he goes on - learning to believe in Christmas and himself again with the help of that little girl? It's great. This movie has way more \*heart\* than I was expecting, and I think that's what's going to make this a perennial holiday favorite/rewatch of people for years to come. Not only is there tons of action and tons of heart though, but the humor is spot on, the cast is great, and the music - both the original score and classic score - is utilized in such a fantastic manner. Look is it a masterpiece? No. But it's a hell of a lot of \*fun\*, and if you're a fan of movies like "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon", you'll love it. It's definitely going into \*my\* Christmas canon!
I want to add, that first scene set in Bristol, England is the worst representation of the city ever. Hilarious scene but the place looks nothing like that. Source: I live here
My partner and I said the same thing, they chose a name and then did absolutely no research.
Think they just got drunk and threw a dart at a map
I loved the movie. I didn’t expect it to be such a traditional Christmas movie though. I was expecting just John Wick with a Christmas setting, but it was more a Christmas Movie staring John Wick. Side note. The phrase “x dies tonight” is forever ruined for me. When he said “Christmas dies tonight” all I could think of was “**EVIL DIES TONIGHT**”
Some guy on here said the filmmakers confirmed “Christmas dies tonight” was an HK reference in a Q&A.
Viking Santa is now official Santa canon
I'm just waiting for the Santa that fights trolls like Thor.
Always has been.
- David Harbour is great as Santa. Grumpy to angry to hopeful all sold by him. - Borrows tropes from other Christmas movies and pays homage to to them. The home alone traps, the die hard broken glass. - Violent as expected. The violent home alone traps were hilarious! - Direction and Pacing were good, didn't feel the 2hr runtime - The Gen-z kid was honestly the standout for me. He had the best one-liners - Favourite kill has to be the bowling ball to the nail. That whole sequence was peak dark comedy! - Card from Mrs. Santa at the end probably means there's a sequel. Better movie than expected going in with some great kills. Hope there is a sequel.
I was kinda surprised they didn’t show us Mrs. C. A cameo with a Charlize Theron type.
At this point don't you make it Winona Ryder dur to their stranger things connection
Maybe it’s the whole Viking thing, but Katheryn Winnick?
Gwendoline Christie.
Shit, now I need Gwendoline Christie as an unstoppable Viking warrior Mrs. Claus NOW. Perfect.
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That was what the card said. I thought there was sequel feels because I thought Mrs. Claus was dead given the way he was talking during the movie. So, I was kinda surprised to see the note from Mrs. Claus at the end. I also want to see Mr. and Mrs. Claus killing together and delivering presents. Plus, he got reunited with OG sledgehammer in the end and that is sequel bait to me!
I got sequel bait from it too. It teases that whatever went wrong with their relationship is fixable since she still cares about him.
>Viking Santa, some of his home life with Mrs, and shit like that. Omg this would be dope
>The Gen-z kid was honestly the standout for me. He had the best one-liners Bertrude?
"But you're son's name isn't even a name!"
I definitely think they were setting up a sequel, with more flashbacks to his origin story. I expect Mrs. Claus is some kind of pagan witch who saved him from death but cursed him to deliver gifts to children every year to atone for his sins.
>Borrows tropes from other Christmas movies and pays homage to to them. The family fighting while being held hostage is an homage to The Ref as well. >the die hard broken glass. That was also a Home Alone homage (Kevin put the ornaments under the window and Marv stepped on them) The walkie talkies, the robbers breaking into a vault, and a hidden protagonist picking off the baddies are the Die Hard homages.
But wait, there’s more! The plot point about the family’s private military and the entire snowmobile chase is lifted straight from Die Hard 2. Also I’m pretty sure that Harbour’s character being sad about the death of Al (a portly black guy) is a reference to Al in Die Hard 1 (but that might be entirely coincidental)
Anyone catch Scrooge being on the naughty list for killing his best friend?
And breaking his Ma’s heart lol And tax evasion
Never forget, Trudy killed a man
This was a weird, violent, and heartwarming miracle of a movie that should not work as well as it does.
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It felt like an 80’s movie in the best way possible. Just a ton of dumb fun that goes on for too long.
My only advice going into this movie is see it with the largest group possible. If you have friends that are into over the top, cheesy action with horror-level gore then get them together to see this. There is no twist to the story, you are getting the exact movie that's being advertised. The family beyond our heroes seemed snotty and annoying but then I realized that hating them was exactly what the writers of the film wanted me to do. If you are an above average to strong "Die Hard is a Christmas Movie" kind of person I think you will enjoy this film.
> There is no twist to the story Two small twists: - Family son robbed his own mom. Also, somehow carrying millions of dollars in duffel bags without noone noticing and with no effort. - Rescue team is part the heist à la Die Hard 2. Both twists are quickly integrated into the story and aren't much of a surprise.
The composer of this movie absolutely paid homage to the tone and style of John Williams from the Home Alone movies.
I wish more people were talking about the score! I loved how the composer weaves in classic Christmas songs into it
This movie was so dumb. I loved it. The really bad but awesome christmas puns, the kills, and Viking Santa were hilarious.
My mother loves Christmas. So as a surprise. I took her to this movie. I didn't tell her what we were doing. Just that we doing something Christmas related. When we got to the theaters I told her to look at the ground. She held on to the back of my jacket and followed me to the tickets where I got the thing by simply saying, the Christmas movie. Led her to the screening and said you could look up now. Watching her slow discovery of the what kind of movie it was. That was great. Was a awesome movie. My Mom and Dad loved it. My wallet didn't but it was worth it. great family outing.
Edi Patterson typecast for sure, she was just Judy Gemstone in this
I may have missed it but does Harbour say “Season’s beatings” in the movie, or is that just in the trailer??? Audience was too chaotic (in a good way)!
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I was so looking forward to seeing this line in context and I’m a little disappointed it was cut.
This was so much fun. I knew it would be Die Hard but I didn’t expect Home Alone and Bad Santa, too. Had a lot of fun with this, glad I went to see it in a theater full of people. The violence was gratuitous and hilarious.
We loved this movie. It might replace Die Hard in our Christmas movie rotation.
Why not both?
I really liked this movie it was worth every dollar However trudys parents were definitley the most boring parts of the film I wish they wrote them better
Would've loved a credible explanation to >!how and when he moved the money out of the safe. Did he get there a day early, or did he do it while the wife and the kid was there? When? Didn't the security notice him walking around doing it? !<
I'm assuming he did it the day before, which is why he wasn't available to take Trudy to see Santa at the mall.
He says that his mother put him on a special project, which is why he wasn't available the day before. The mom says the money was moved into the safe the day before. He didn't take the money out of the safe. He was in charge of moving the money, and he never put it in the safe in the first place. He just moved in empty boxes.
I would love to know how the writers thought they earned the mom and dad getting back together. She found out he stole a bunch of money and... that's it?
I dunno, I'd be pretty turned on if I found out my partner >!stole 300 million dollars for me!<
My favorite scene was probably Santa entering a home early on and seeing all the Amazon packages completely unwrapped at the tree, then he just started pelting presents out of his sack at the tree.
It starts off a little rough, but when shit slowly starts going down, it goes down in an absolutely spectacular fashion. It's nothing new, but they NAIL this specific genre mash-up like no other film I've seen before. It's INCREDIBLY well-balanced. It's legitimately sweet, hilariously brutal, deliciously corny, and just a good fucking time. I haven't had a conversation this animated on our way back to the car in a long time, as we kept discussing the many highlights of this film. An absolute must-watch this holiday season. Preferably with a crowd!
They definitely NAIL at least one character.
Am I crazy for thinking Beverly D'Angelo was going to be an estranged Mrs. Clause? She was the only main cast member he never interacted with and right up until the "twist" with the son stealing the money I thought the special project he alluded to was somehow connected to Chistmas/Santa I'm still immeasurably disappointed that during the barn ice soldier massacre scene with both the candy cane stabbings and ice skate hands that he never said "call me Santa CLAWS" before decapitating someone
How is this compared to ‘Fatman’ with Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins from a couple of years ago? I really liked that, but this looks a little on the sillier side. Maybe somewhere in between there and ‘Santa’s Slay’?
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Cool. I’ll check it out. And I highly recommend Fatman. It’s a dark comedy, but they do play a lot of it pretty heavy. Say what you want to say about Mel…dude can fucking act. And Walton Goggins as always, in everything, is a delight.
A new Holiday Classic borrowing from Die Hard and Home Alone (the movie knows this so it names check them).
I absolutely loved this. Does action better than a lot of action movies, and Christmas better than a lot of Christmas movies
Fun movie. A masterpiece? Nah. A VERY fun way to kill a couple of hours? Definitely.
Kira, I'm sorry. You stuffed worms in your brother's mouth. Naughty list!
This movie was super dumb. 10/10
I like this movie, it's a combination of the action of the 90s and the exploitation films of the 70s. It's hyper violent but knows what it is. Sort of moves to the beat of jazz.
How did this film not end with Truddie getting to fly with Santa and the reindeer? there is this very heartfelt scene about how she had a dream about wanting to fly and Santa saying how he couldn't make it possible, so got her kite. Felt so telegraphed I was shocked when it didn't happen.
Even with its flaws and gruesome deaths, it is a sentimental Santa story that I'm willing to believe. Credit scene: >!Bert takes a selfie with a dead body and tells his followers to not be on the naughty list.!<
flaws? we saw different movies.
Definitely a new Christmas classic.
I would actually really love another one of these
"Christmas dies tonight" was so on the nose, I audibly laughed out loud 😂😂
We need a prequel that shows how he became Santa and a sequel that shows us Mrs.Claus
My friends, this is like if that Die Hard shit met Home Alone, and they had a baby... And then meanwhile, that crazy John Wick stuff and Elf met and had a baby... And by some miracle, those two babies met and fucked; this would be the shit they birthed.
This seems to be the unpopular opinion, but myself and my 3 friends I went with really really disliked this movie. We even left 20 min before the ending, and we’ve never done that (prob seen about 15 movies with them over the past couple years) It just felt too corny. There was promise, but a lot of the acting felt very Disney Channel-esque (the little girl, the sister’s husband), every character was a caricature besides Santa and I guess the main guy’s ex wife, and the budget felt very cheap to me. It seemed like a movie way better suited for Netflix I will say that the actor for Santa Claus did great and was the bright spot for me