Violent Night (2022) Review | Jason’s Movie Blog
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Santa, Papa Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, and also so on and also so forth. There are multiple names to the fictional individuality of Santa Claus, but with one voice speak to the awfully same fabulous figure around the escape season individuality (largely from the Western Christian society) that is said to channeling presents to the abodes of well-behaved offspring on the night of Christmas Eve (December 2nd); waking upwards to situate presents disowned behind on the early morning of Christmas Day (December 25th). Consistently and also largely indicated as a portly, jolly, white-bearded man (sometimes owning eyewear), and also wearing a red layer with white hair cuffs, white-hair-cuffed red trousers, red hat with white hair, and also black leather belts, and also carrying a satchel full of presents for offspring. Consistently, this images of Santa Claus is also come with by his magical sleigh that is attracted by multiple flying reindeer. With one voice of these images of Santa have been preserved and also complimented through the assorted media facets, involving songs, radio specials, tv productions, animes, offspring’s novels, flicks, and also commercializing and also marketing. Now, Universal Pictures and also director Tommy Wirkola posture the newest cinematic endeavor to illustrate Santa Claus (in a new spin) with the film Violent Night. Conducts this film situate definition within its collision of R-rated physical violence and also escape spirit or is it merely a bland mesh-mash of suggestions that never ever before comes with each other?
THE STORY
It’s Christmas Eve in upstate Connecticut as Jason Lightstone (Alex Hassell) is wishing to reconnect with his separated better fifty percent, Linda (Alexis Louder), and also gain time for his daughter, Trudy (Leah Brady). The family members is paying a go to to the fashionable estate of Gertrude (Beverly D’Angelo), Jason’s mom, the matriarch of the Lightstone clan and also the company mogul head of the family members’s conglomerate, that’s rarely intrigued in the escape accumulating ceremonies, which also requires Jason’s sis, Alva (Edi Patterson), her showboating new boyfriend, Morgan Steel (Web video camera Gigandet), and also her bratty social media influencer son, Bert (Alexander Elliot). Unsafe upwards the exhilaration is Penny pincher (John Leguizamo), that leads a team of hired hirelings and also within males, without standoff snatching the accumulated Lightstone family members hostage, with the hopes to unlock a fortune hosted within estate’s pivot vault. While chagrin is gain-up within, Santa Claus (David Harbour) is amassing his yearly monotonous rounds external, unborn to the Lighthouse estate and also accidentally avails attracted into the combat against Penny pincher’s ruffians and also hired muscular cells. Such participation turns on past memories with Santa, with the fabulous Christmas savior ready to installed a combat to preserve Trudy, that earns a distinct relationship with Saint Nick, and also to brandished those on his “mischievous list” in their vicinity.
THE GOOD / THE BAD
If this paragraph (and also the opening one) solid acquainted…. it’s offered that I acquired what I concocted from my evaluate for 2019’s Klaus, which is understandable for this evaluate (and also that one) due to my overview conversing around Santa. So…. without better ado. Prefer multiple youngsters cultivation upwards, I believed in Santa Claus. I discern, I discern….it sounds a mobile phone of cliché (something that’s sort of a “occasion of passageway” for youngsters of the Christian confidence) as the fabulous fictional individuality has become a number more fabulous with the tidings of Christmas a number more so than the spiritual birth of Jesus Christ (of whom the escape is infatuated around). Still, peeking beyond that point, the individuality of Santa Claus has indeed certainly become a purposeful staple of the Christmas season; situating the multiple “holly jolly” iteration of unbelievable ol’ Saint Nick and also his present perishable on sleigh escape on Christmas Eve night to be a visual images that has been deeply imbedded in multiple early childhood years memories (and also it still continues to be one for me in my psyche). Of training course, the depiction of Santa has repeatedly been the awfully same, but there has been a wide smorgasbord of TV episodes, flicks, animes, and also stories that brandish Papa Christmas, involving Spurt of the Guardians, Fairy, The Polar Share, Admiration on 34th Highway, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, The Narrates of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and also the Wardrobe, and also multiple, multiple others. So, a number prefer the unlike other fictional early childhood years-prefer personalities of childhood years (i.e. the Easter Rabbit, the Tooth Fairy, and also so on.), the images of Santa Claus will noticeably bolster to stay on and also be a newfangled (and also fabulous) icon for the Christmas escape season for generations to come.
Consistently, this brings me ago to conversing around Violent Night, a 2022 Christmas job-comedy film and also the newest job imagine to amenity Santa Claus as a purposeful focal of the story. Using the wide range of Christmas / escape themed flicks unborn out each year, it’s sort of hard to grip ago track of them with one voice as we near the yuletide season. However, with Violent Night, I strongly preserve in mind it throughout the latter fifty percent of 2022. While I actually didn’t hear a number around the project once it was initially announced or also the cast that was forced, I did initially hear around this movie once the film’s movie trailer started to show up virtual too as in the movie theaters throughout the “unborn tourist attractions” previews, especially once I saw either a PG-13 or R-rated imagine. From the trailer one by one, the movie filteringed system prefer it was witnessing be quite an experimental movie, with the blending mixture of escape Christmas concepts and also condiment aesthetics with a hard R-rated job-physical violence throughout. This unorthodox mixture showed up a mobile phone jarring (from the trailer one by one), but sometimes this crossbreed of suggestions can be quite effective, especially if the movie is filter of self-conscious of how psychopathic it can be. Plus, I did prefer the inkling of star David Harbour tinkering the guise of Santa and also how his thoughtful yuletide temperament adjusts as he strategies to swipe out unsafe individuals in demonic fashion. Still, I didn’t have actually high expectations for this movie, but I did decide to check this movie out once Violent Night was package to be launched on December 2nd, 2022. I did appraise the film throughout its opening weekend break, but I decide to delay to receive my evaluate executed for it, especially offered that I was tinkering a mobile phone mobile phone of “catch upwards” with some of my unlike other testimonials that need to be pressed out. Now, on the eve of Christmas 2022, I last but not the awfully least have some time to share my personal thoughts on this movie. And what did I imagine it? Faultlessly, it was a mobile phone perturbing. While the movie executes have fun with its surreal premise and also delivers on its vicious job, Violent Night merely truly feels prefer a loose and also vacuous presentation that never ever before actually comes with each other. It surely avails some points apt, but it’s not actually a progressive-day escape sentimental that some are acting it to be….at the awfully least in my point of vista.
Violent Night is funnelled by Tommy Wirkola, whose previous directorial jobs incorporates jobs prefer Dead Snow, The Getaway, and also Hansel & Gretel: Witch Seekers. Passed on his background on those specific endeavors, Wirkola seems prefer a conducive option in helm a movie that confiscates the sentimental Santa Claus archetype and also gain him combat against a sphere of wax of hired hirelings that are trying to swipe over a estate too as readying a family members hostage. Significant quantities of have termed this specific movie a system of Enact away Hard Fulfills Abode Singly and also I think that was the intention that Wirkola was going for once he funnelled this film. Yes, the similarities are there and also are surely conspicuous, but that seems to be the “moniker of the arcade”, with Wirkola hosting ceremonies throughout the movie has stimulates the the awfully same sensation of those two escape themed flicks. It jobs for its quantity parts and also, while the movie doesn’t occupational too as either Enact away Hard or Abode Singly, the scenarios and also scenes are quite legible, with Wirkola owning fun with those pivot cheat to emulate that awfully same kind of nostalgia Christmas fun. In addition, Wirkola, for his parts, also earns sure to grip ago the movie a mobile phone “light on its toes” and also never ever before actually avails mired in also multiple useless suggestions or goes off on a tangent unnecessary.
Of training course, the considerable “emphasize” that Violent Night executes prosper in is in the film’s job and also physical violence scenes, which Wirkola delivers in spades. The handling cheat are awfully fun and also advice build the amenity’s story and also chagrin throughout the endeavor, with some of these parts owning that jubilant fun of being vicious. Of training course, it’s not vicious merely for the purpose of being vicious, but it indeed confiscates some kind of jubilant fun of snatching the surreal premise of Santa Claus handling off hired hirelings and also dispatching them in some vicious strategies. It’s legible that this is purposeful focus in specific times, with Wirkola homing in on merely demonic physical violence with vigor and also persistence that comes throughout with some wily gain utilize of of assorted objects in the vicinity where the combat is snatching vicinity too as the sometimes goofiness of how Mr. Claus soothes the unsafe individuals. Again, it’s dabble for laughs and also for some recreation high typical, so, while physical violence with its job, these specific scenes in the amenity are surely ideal vicinity of the movie.
Consistently, this doesn’t gain the movie with one voice job, physical violence, and also gore throughout, with Wirkola able to juggle to gain a few pivot times of escape Christmas spirit that is blown out in and also out of Violent Night. It’s not the strongest I’ve witnessing in a Christmas movie, but still aesthetics after to have a few short lived moments of escape sentimental to gain the amenity convenient throughout those specific scenes. Sudden of the conducive chits, Violent Night, while not the highest or an prompt sentimental of progressive-day escape themed flicks, still aesthetics after to gain its mark through its sheer power of being self-conscious for a audacious satire film of being Christmas subtleties and also hard R-rated physical violence, which earns the movie fun in its quantity parts on those details.
In its presentation, Violent Night is a mixture okay and also unbelievable subtleties, with the background ascertaining of the amenity peeking “also keel” for the amenity. That’s not to say that the movie’s production amenity is unsafe or anything, but I merely wear’t actually have a number to say around it as the film aesthetics prefer something that rendezvouses the industry stock of flicks of this awfully same kind of caliber. Of training course, the Lightstone estate is package as the main ascertaining for unlike of the film’s duration, so that, along with the escape Christmas decors, aesthetics overjoying to the eye and also creates a nice mobile phone sandbox arena for the story’s heroes and also culprits to dabble around in. Therefore, the film’s “behind the scenes” team, involving Ksenia Markova (art instructions), Roger Fires (production incarnation), Tamara Gauthier (package decors), Laura DeLuca, indeed receive the project executed and also advice gain Violent Night’s production presentation trusted and also famous to the amenity’s proceedings. Again, I wear’t intend these world to be nominated for their occupational on this movie, but, for their vicinity, I think that they did a unbelievable project. This can also be said with cinematography occupational by Matthew Weston. It’s enough and also avails the project executed, but altogether nothing actually to go psychopathic around. Finally, while the stomaching for the movie, which was written by Dominic Lewis, is pretty unbelievable and also retains upwards the price for both laid-endorse moments and also bombastic job, the actual songs soundtrack services for Violent Night is considerable and also surely disowned a unforgettable mark on the amenity. Of training course, Lewis adds to this smorgasbord by concocting some of the songs and also of some of my renowned Christmas themed songs (i.e., “Jingle Bells”, “We Dream You a Merry Christmas”, “The 12 Days of Christmas”, and also multiple others. However by far the ideal song in the movie would surely be the gain utilize of of Bryan Adams’s “Christmas Time”, which plays out once the film’s vicious job kicks into high creation. The scene, along with the song, is brightly executed and also possibly the ideal scene in the totality film.
Sadly, Violent Night executes indeed struggle in a few pivot discolorations and also doesn’t fully evaluate every little thing quite well as it intended to, which creates multiple fragmented parts and also draws objections in the instructions of the instance. How so? Faultlessly, for beginners, the movie’s initially deportment is quite lackadaisical and also monotonous. As to be meant, this specific percent of the movie installation unlike the story’s pivot times, involving personalities, personae, and also story, but it need to be this mundane and also unexceptional. With one voice those said times are in fully power to advice define the ceremonies and also personalities in Violent Night, but it’s with one voice overseen in a means that is quite bland, which is inexplicable offered that Wirkola surely realizes what he dreams to say / communicate for this imagine yet battles to situate a purposeful to channeling out the “ideal” for this story. The job in the initially and also second deportment is sort of “meh” at these times and also feel rather weak, regardless of the fun and also “outlandish” vicious that movie dreams to communicate. Yes, this rudiment kicks it upwards a notch in the ultimately deportment and also is wonderful (as identified above), but it comes painfully vanilla and also not as wildly fun throughout initially fifty percent of the amenity, with a few scenarios that are artistically executed, yet still truly feels a mobile phone underwhelming and also / or fifty percent-baked. This also comes in the kind of how the movie is concocted, with the amenity being penned by Pat Casey and also Josh Miller, and also how it stances with one voice these details in a means that’s intended to be unforgettable and also fun. Sadly, such suggestions, while unbelievable on file and also throughout the storyboarding protocol, wear’t specially swipe well with the awfully same kind of zip and also theatrical bold once on-monitor. The stodginess of with one voice of this comes to be a mobile phone monotonous and also monotonous in story and also treading of personalities and also ceremonies, with such dullness and also underwhelming subtleties.
There are also unlike story craters and also obscure individuality storyline beats that the movie filter of stances, glosses over, and also merely immediately lessen them from the story, which accumulates a few fragmented hunks throughout Violent Night. This incorporates Jason and also Linda’s past relationship (and also how they dropped out with each unlike other), a few story sediment of Penny pincher’s past, what the Lightstone empire company is (it’s never ever before fully defined what they do), Gertrude’s vicious temperament and also her add-on in the instructions of her youngsters, and also Santa’s a mobile phone ambiguous relationship with Mrs. Claus. With one voice of these are brandished in the film, yet the manuscript doesn’t fully swipe the time to floater such subtleties correct, with them unborn to be carelessly mix-ups and also underwhelming. This, of training course, plays into the individuality innovation of multiple of the individuality of which I will noticeably enter a mobile phone a number more detail below, but these story craters are quite conspicuous in the amenity, which earns the movie feel level and also generic, regardless of the uber vicious and also audacious premise that Violent Night dreams to be. Probably the biggest story point that truly felt prefer a considerable, missed avenue was in the backstory for Santa, which is quite convenient, and also I believed it would be fully toured. Alas, it doesn’t and also filter of avails sagged at the onset of the ultimately deportment. Again, I discern the movie dreams to have fun with its installation and also tonal presentation, but with one voice of these specific story beats could’ve been readily enhanced upon for a a number more wholesome endeavor rather than merely a vacuous one.
Better, the movie’s premise, while fun at times and also adopts its crazy physical violence at times, incubates multiple corny / foolish parts that come off as lame. It’s sort of hard to swipe the movie truly (also yet I discern it’s a satire and also that I need to swipe it also truly at times) throughout heavy-handed substantial cheat once such cringeworthy capabilities and also / or scenes are indicated with such monotony and also goofiness throughout. For a movie to considerable of snatched over such hurdles, a director necessitates to situate a ideal equilibrium of the sincere sentiment and also wildly crazy of which some movie jobs have successfully attracted off. Also the film’s comedy and also the humor runs out upwards being rather lackadaisical and also dull as I singular laughed a few times not offered that of how the dialogue that was concocted or how it was conceded, but largely in some of the physical gags. Wirkola’s Violent Night anxiously tries to emulate that pointer but comes upwards quickly with a escape job imagine that is heavy on its physical violence, yet light on its crud, which, come with by eye-rumbling involving cheesiness and also merely corny stupidity, that inevitably doesn’t occupational.
To gain complications worse, Violent Night’s cast doesn’t actually advice a number in the means of boosting the film or also peeking past those specific times of criticism, with the selective cast of acting talent being unexceptional and also enough at ideal. That’s not to say that their acting is badly (as none of them are per say and also are okay throughout), but the usefulness is a mobile phone rickety at times and also the individuality themselves (both how they are portrayed and also how they are concocted) woefully unsafe and also almost unlikable for the unlike vicinity. There are a few exceptions to this specific endorsement, with star David Harbour leading the penalty in the film as the movie’s purposeful protagonist individuality Santa Claus. Harbour, that is known for his occasions in Stranger Points, Hellboy, and also Newsroom, has indeed started to gain a moniker for himself throughout his career, appoint a wide smorgasbord of jobs that indeed seem to suited his acting talents and also / or imaginative personalities. Therefore, Harbour verdict to dabble such a individuality prefer Santa Claus in an R-rated movie seems apt upwards his street and also earns the unlike of the monitor time in Violent Night. To be sure, Harbour executes a pretty unbelievable project throughout the film and also quite in reality creates the weight of the amenity on his shoulder, applying the heavy lifting in Violent Night for unlike of the duration of the movie. Harbour is upwards to the project and also immediately industrys the individuality through his a mobile phone mere temperament that is a mobile phone blistered out point ofview with recent times of today’s universes, yet still filling the guise of Santa with enough to fulfill expectations of the fabulous figure. That being said, witnessing Harbour tinkering such a individuality as the job inaugurations to augment in the movie is where the star actually shines and also avails to have fun with Santa overtaken upwards the unsafe individuals. As identified previously, there are some story beats where the film tries to brandish Santa’s past pep (as a Viking-ish warrior), which (anew) is quite convenient, but is it never ever before fully builded beyond that. In the expire, while the movie isn’t specially the “need to appraise” movie of the escape season, Harbour indeed earns the movie a mobile phone enjoyable and also yanks off a awfully convenient and also unlike swipe on the sentimental Santa Claus individuality, one that still has with one voice the blowing and also subtleties of the jolly worn “saint nick”, yet still earns the individuality his awfully own.
After Harbour, young starlet Leah Brady comes a tiny yet effective project in the guise of Trudy Jason and also Linda’s daughter that alleges in Santa and also helps Saint Nick throughout the movie. Brady, that is known for her occasions in The Umbrella Academy and also Erin’s Overview to Kissing Ladies, is a reasonably weird young starlet and also, for her vicinity in the film, executes a respectable project in tinkering Trudy, especially as the pleasing and also innocent young lady. However, beyond that pointer, there isn’t a number to her individuality. Although, to her credit, I actually didn’t think a number of her individuality going “in-deepness” in this movie and also is largely there for the” spirit of Christmas” son-prefer virtue.
Behind those two personalities, star John Leguizamo delivers a a mobile phone individuality nuance to the sentimental (if not stereotypical) perverse baddie in the movie as the individuality of Jimmy “Mr. Penny pincher” Martinez, the leader of the hirelings that lay siege to the Lightstone estate and also peeking stomaching the family members’s mammoth fortune on Christmas Eve. Leguizamo, that is known for his occasions in Spawn, Romeo + Juliet, and also Moulin Rouge!, has repeatedly been a unbelievable and also qualified individuality star that sometimes plays a wide smorgasbord of occasions throughout his career….in the a number more sustaining posture to the purposeful leads. In Violent Night, Leguizamo avails the chance to dabble purposeful “unsafe male” guise and also he’s indeed upwards to the project channeling that that specific meanness that’s mobile phone colorful, lovely, and also brave with one voice complained in one. It’s legible he’s owning fun tinkering such a guise, which is unbelievable point and also comes off through his usefulness as Mr. Penny pincher. That being said, the individuality is concocted rather generically and also comes off as a “cookie cutter” baddie, which can be as intended, but it’s also a number of the “appreciation bread” smorgasbord as a purposeful bad dude…. regardless of if the movie is a satire escape theme endeavor. The individuality innovation is awfully marginal in Mr. Penny pincher and also, while there are ethic of his backstory being a mobile phone unfortunate and also thoughtful, it’s inevitably brush aside rather quickly as the individuality devolves ago into a level and also one-dimensional villain. Plus, the manuscript doesn’t unmask a number of the means of why Mr. Penny pincher and also his hired team are gazing for out to case the Lightstone fortune, with merely some “hand-wavy” announcing here and also there, which (as meant) comes off as lazy writing. Therefore, while Leguizamo is unbelievable in the guise, the individuality of Mr. Penny pincher comes off as a level bad dude in the movie.
Sadly, the rest of the purposeful cast, involving star Alex Hassell (Suburbicon and also The Youngsters) as Jason Lighthouse, starlet Alexis Louder (Watchmen and also Copshop) as Jason’s ex-better fifty percent Linda, starlet Beverly D’Angelo (National Lampoon’s Sojourn and also American History X) as the matriarch of the Lightstone family members Gertrude Lightstone, starlet Edi Patterson (The Exemplary Gemstone and also Chisels Out) as Jason’s sis Alva Lightstone, star Alexander Elliot (The Durable Youngsters and also Being Sustain) as Alva’s influencer son Bertrude “Bert” Lightstone, and also star Web video camera Gigandet (Gold and also The Superior Seven) as Alva’s blockhead boyfriend Morgan Steel, runs out upwards woefully deathlike and also generic, with marginal upswing in their respective personalities. Of training course, I do faultlessly that this movie is to be a escape satire and also doesn’t actually swipe itself also assimilated at specific times, but none of these personalities I actually care around. There with one voice quite bland and also generic (I discern that I say that a number in this evaluate, but they actually are), with singular one- or two-individuality amenities that aren’t actually enhanced upon in the film as unlike remain the awfully same in a rather cliché manner. This quite perturbing as some of these personalities are intended to channeling some kind of sincere moments and also / or prestige to the movie in some means, kind, or kind, yet not one actually avails that to point, with Violent Night inventing such vacuous (and also rather hollow) individuality constructs that wear’t actually do a number and also wear’t have the awfully same kind of recommend the amenity as being unforgettable. Therefore, while the acting is not wretched, these personalities are merely underwhelming concocted and also expire upwards being readily forgettable.
The rest of the film’s cast of personalities, involving star Brendan Fletcher (The Revenant and also Night Hunter) as Penny pincher’s lead henchman “Krampus”, star Andre Eriksen (Vikingane and also Meglerne) as Penny pincher’s henchmen “Gingerbread”, starlet Mitra Suri (Smashed Carbon and also Investigate) as Penny pincher’s henchmen “Sweet Walking cane”, starlet Stephanie Sy (The Porter and also A Abode on Fire) as Penny pincher’s henchmen “Sugarplum”, stuntman / star Phong Giang (The Protégé and also Sky lines) as Penny pincher’s henchmen “Tinsel”, stuntman / star Can Aydin (Cloud Atlas and also The Matrix Resurrections) as Penny pincher’s henchmen “Frosty”, and also stuntman / star Rawleigh Clements-Willis (The Ice Highway and also Zero one) as Penny pincher’s henchmen “Peppermint”, are lended upwards of the hired hirelings that occupational under Penny pincher’s manipulate as they swipe manipulate over the Lightstone estate and also are entrusted to slight sustaining occasions in the movie. Unlike the rest of the cast, these specific personalities are low and also generically portrayed by incarnation as merely the “weapon for hire” unsafe male ruffians with a escape themed moniker names (a point I actually did prefer), so their minimalist individuality ideology to said personalities in Violent Night isn’t unsafe and also didn’t woe me.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Doing his monotonous Christmas Eve rounds of perishable on presents to every man throughout the universes, Santa locates himself in a clammy affliction and also need to drum upwards worn “vicious” tendencies to preserve himself too as a family members being hosted hostage by hired hirelings in the movie Violent Night. Director Tommy Wirkola’s newest film is quite the enthusiastic project by blending with each other R-rated physical violence with a escape themed Christmas tale, which expire upshots in a imagine that resembles a a number more x-rated-themed Abode Singly rendezvouses Enact away Hard mixture. While the premise is fun at times and also avails multiple subtleties and also “over-the-tope” vicious tendencies in an enjoyable means too as Harbour commendable usefulness throughout, the rest of the amenity is merely underwhelming throughout, involving a lackluster instructions, bland manuscript, clunky dealing with of asset, multiple fragmented story times, and also utterly level and also unmemorable personalities. Personally, I believed this movie was mediocrely okay and also perturbing, but leaning a mobile phone a number more to the latter than the former. Yet, I actually didn’t intend a number from this amenity. Yes, it did have its unlike and also lended gain utilize of of the vicious R-rating with its psychopathic (and also sometimes crazy) escape premise, but the movie runs out upwards being a loose endeavor that’s fifty percent-baked, bland, and also sometimes noisy with marginal crud. Again, I discern this movie is a satire of species and also is an experiential kind film, but I’ve witnessing far better jobs do better with some zany and also psychopathic setups and also tonal difference than what’s to be intend. That being said, some probably will noticeably prefer this amenity’s vicious shenanigans and also truly gently wagered out story, with my referral being both an “downhearted option” for them too as a “miss it” for every man else. Basically, some will noticeably receive a number more milage out of this than unlike other, but this is seldom the progressive-day escape sentimental than some are case it to be. There are ethic that at a viable continuation for a sequel in the jobs, but I think that a “one and also executed” endeavor is with one voice that this film need to be. Still, for better or worse, Violent Night runs out upwards have fun with its physical violence miens of escape cheer, but still runs out upwards with a mesh-mash of suggestions with mobile phone crud.
2.9 Out of 5 (Undecided-Recourse and also Miss It)
Made On: December 2nd, 2022
Swiped a gander at On: December 24th, 2022
Violent Night is 112 mins long and also is rated R for hard bloody physical violence, language throughout, and also some sex-related references
