This starts off very strong with some great characters, acting and production.
Santa is jaded and suffering flashbacks from his violent past before he doned the red jacket.
The setup is great with an awful family who are jumping through hoops to get their hands on the rich and corrupt matriarch of the family.
The action starts with a real Die Hard vibe and it is all great.
Then the film gets very violent very quickly.
I am a fan of horror and slasher movies but this was a bit much - not just to stomach but also to care about.
In the space of a few minutes the slayings become more extreme and bloody that it quickly becomes boring.
I yawned as another bad guy got a skate to the neck or yet another goon clumsily fell into some spinning blades.
Once the blodd starts flowing this really has nowhere else to go - I really couldn't care how it ended and became distracted as the ineveitable ending played out.
Santa is jaded and suffering flashbacks from his violent past before he doned the red jacket.
The setup is great with an awful family who are jumping through hoops to get their hands on the rich and corrupt matriarch of the family.
The action starts with a real Die Hard vibe and it is all great.
Then the film gets very violent very quickly.
I am a fan of horror and slasher movies but this was a bit much - not just to stomach but also to care about.
In the space of a few minutes the slayings become more extreme and bloody that it quickly becomes boring.
I yawned as another bad guy got a skate to the neck or yet another goon clumsily fell into some spinning blades.
Once the blodd starts flowing this really has nowhere else to go - I really couldn't care how it ended and became distracted as the ineveitable ending played out.