We Wish You A Fatal Christmas!

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2017)

The greatest Christmas film of all time, bar none. What, you think that just because it features numerous people being shot, killed and maimed in a variety of horrific ways, it deserves to be excluded from the title? Not in my book... the festive references are plentiful throughout, and it opens and closes with songs that were made for this joyous time of year. Even if the events that transpire are anything but. Unless you enjoy seeing a man picking out shards of glass from his feet. Yowch.
It also happens to be the best action movie ever made, with the much-missed Alan Rickman playing the infinitely sophisticated bad guy, a perfect counterpart to Bruce Willis's meat'n'potatoes cop. The fantastic stunts, the witty one-liners, the rich characterisations, the fact our hero isn't a superman who bleeds and makes mistakes like the rest of us... there are so many facets that mark this out as being wwaayy ahead of it's time, but the true indication of it's quality is in the massively guaranteed replay value.
Which would be around fifteen times and counting. Natch. 10/10