For the new John Woo-directed film, “Silent Night”, the hook for this story is – almost no dialogue because the main character Godlock, played by Joel Kinnaman is shot in the neck while chasing the criminal animals who killed his 7-year-old son after a drive-by accidental shooting.

From the beginning of this film, starting with the operation to repair the arteries in Godlock’s neck, I wondered where was the bandage for his neck or the scar after the operation. I even wondered if given the extreme injury to Godlock’s neck it is even possible to surgically repair this much arterial damage., especially in a person’s neck. Godlock lost his voice when he was shot, but a few scenes after his operation, he made some audible yelling sounds. How can he make audible noises when he loses his voice? I was surprised that a major well-known movie action director like John Woo could make logical continuity errors this obvious.

A movie idea where there is almost no dialogue, just action scenes is an interesting new concept, but starting out with major and obvious logic errors ruined a good deal of this movie for me, right from the start. The good part of this story is the anger and desire for revenge of Godlock to kill all of those who murdered his 7 year old son, is the understandable catalyst to keep this story moving forward. We all go to movies to see life the way it should be, with retribution for bad people and justice for good people. Far too often, this never happens in real life.

I thought many of the action scenes were good, but not as great and ground breaking as you would expect for a new John Woo film. These are all the reasons why this movie is only getting low 59% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. My rating is 70% and just OK rating, mainly for John Woo fans.