Steph:
This was like two hours of gory, formulaic Christmas propaganda that kind of entertained me in the beginning with the cynical Santa stuff and some of the fight scenes, but it got tedious after awhile and super cheesy toward the end, and the burning of the money was just a sad attempt at an anticapitalist message in a film devoted to saving Christmas—the holiday that would probably cease to exist without capitalism. ⏰⏰
Josh:
Didn’t realize from the ads I’ve seen that Harbour is playing the “real” Santa, and honestly, that premise sucks, and the movie is worse, with its cheaply ironic, incessantly grating soundtrack, its halfway decent gore effects, its lazy-ass sub-Bruce Willis one-liners, the way it casually kills off the help but saves the rich assholes, and worst of all, the way it tries to tug our heartstrings at the end: disgusting. ⏰
The Bare Minimum 