John Woo’s New Action Movie Is Something We’ve Wanted For 20 Years

John Woo is one of the most celebrated action directors of the 20th century, and his exciting new movie, Silent Night, has been anticipated for over 20 years. The Hong Kong filmmaker was hugely influential in the 1980s and 1990s, and countless Hollywood directors were inspired by his style. Woo pioneered a number of action tropes, such as his use of detailed slow-motion shootouts, “bullet ballet,” and gun-fu, which has since been popularized by John Wick, even though Woo had been practicing the style decades earlier. A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled are just some of Woo’s noteworthy movies that feature elaborate and jaw-dropping action sequences, and he now has a brand new film.