People (including me) that haven't watch the trailer will thought this is gonna be a Ready Or Not movie alike, when a family started to killing each other, and this one is just the B-version of it except a notable name like Keira Knightley and Lily-Rose Depp, well, Silent Night is a much better film, story, and concept than i expected, it's about a family friends that got together and taking they're time for one last time because they must take a death pill so they are not suffer to death because of a deathly gas that takes everybody's life, we hear they're story, we know they're feeling, and we care, Silent Night have a feeling, it's not them killing each other with a lot of blood and goryness and we as an audience just have a madness feeling and that's about it, one scene make me cry in Silent Night, it's a more sad and tragic situation, it's moving and emotional that leaves me hoping that is not just happen, overall Silent Night was amazing, it was incredibly well perform by all the cast, it's a unique and diffe rent yet it's a very sad and dark story, Silent Night it's one of the best films of the year in the end of the year, totally worth it.

It's odd to be positive about a movie that makes you feel like you've been run over. But really, truly positive I am.

I'm writing these first few lines as the end credits still run and I feel like I've just watched a really long version of the video for Ultravox's 'Dancing with tears in my eyes' combined with the ending to 'The Mist'. This obviously isn't a jolly, Christmassy feeling but it's impressive when a movie has an impact like that.

It's heavy and intense. It's a thought experiment. It's surreal and horribly close to home at the same time. It might be reminiscent of a few other things, but the Christmas aspect makes it original.

I also think it's well-acted. Some people say it's all over the place, going from joking to crying in the space of two minutes, but I think that's part of the point. Once you know what the situation is, the way they act is appropriate in my opinion - knowing what is about to come, I think you can expect people to be manic, forced, unnatural, erratic, and that's how it's acted.

Reading through the reviews, I'm rather astounded at how many people have not truly watched it. If you did, and you didn't like it, that's your prerogative, of course. But I've seen a few reviewers summarise the impending doom as 'poison by the Russians', meaning you didn't actually listen properly to the dinner table conversation in which this was explained.

And if you want to stop watching after fifteen minutes, sure, you do you - but come on, don't leave a review when you haven't properly seen the film.

Then there are people who say this is about the pandemic. Don't people know how long it takes to write, plan, cast and then actually make a film?! This was thought out and at least partially filmed pre-covid, people!

It's not about Brexit either, nor is it a feature on the problems of millennial parenting (I'm serious - one reviewer actually interpreted it that way). There's really no point in proper parenting on your whole family's last day...

It's not 'woke' either; it briefly mentions that the situation has to do with the way humans treat the earth, but that's more tp partially explain it than to preach because it's never mentioned again (and if that already triggers your cognitive dissonance - maybe do something about it?).

And then there are the people who can't handle the swearing. To those people I say - if you wouldn't swear on a day like this I think you are more disturbing that this film's subject matter, ha! But the point is - there's actually a point to the swearing: the children are allowed because of the situation, so I actually thought it added something.

I have to mention the music. There's a real disconnect sometimes and that is, of course, very intentional and it works. The ending is followed by the most haunting, heavy, atmospheric rendition of 'Silent Night' I've ever heard, thanks to Lorne Balfe.

I thought this was a beautiful, difficult, partially surprising, partially predictable, atmospheric, thought provoking, heavy hitting tragicomedy that only the British can pull off.

This movie felt like another of Keira Knightley's films, "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World," except it was much less funny. This film never made me laugh, or even smile. It has some awkward quirky moments where the writer attempts humor, but misses the mark.

The basic premise is the government has announced that the world is ending, and they've handed out "exit pills" (suicide pills) to the population so that they don't needlessly suffer. Except for illegal aliens and the homeless. Because according to the film, "they don't count." Ironically, as you'll later find out, this might mean the meek shall indeed inherit the Earth.

In the first act you find out that the end comes from an environmental disaster that has created a toxic cloud moving across the globe that kills people by liquifying their organs. They really don't even try to touch on the science about what caused it, but it is said in the dialogue that humanity has polluted the world to the point that "the world spews it all back us." To avoid an agonizing death, the government is actively promoting that everyone should take the exit pill.

Old college friends gather at a country estate for one last Christmas party before the toxic clouds arrive, and they take their government-provided "exit pills" to avoid dying said horrible death. This part of the movie was a little like a millennial version of the 1983 movie "The Big Chill." Which also had old college friends from the boomer generation gather for a weekend reunion.

There is an interracial lesbian couple, an interracial heterosexual couple, and two white heterosexual couples with kids, kids who drop a lot of F-bombs.

The second act they all drink, dance, play games, reminisce and tell each other awkward and inappropriate secrets about their past. I sense that the writer wanted some of this to be funny but in my opinion really missed the mark.

We learn that one of the characters is pregnant and doesn't want to take the pill because she doesn't want to kill her baby.

One of the other couple's sons also doesn't want to take the pill because he wants to survive, and questions the government's narrative. This uncertainty regarding the narrative's validity is shared by several other characters. Maybe the government and scientists are lying, maybe they are just mistaken.

At the start of the third act the son who proclaims he isn't going to take the pill runs off, he finds a car by the side of the road with a family in it that have all taken the exit pill and are dead. The boy begins to scream as one of the toxic dust devils blows in exposing him to the toxin. His father picks him up and takes him back to the house, where he announces it's time to take the pills. There are some more awkward quirky moments which follow.

In the end, they all take the pill except the youngest son, who they believe is dead from exposure to the mysterious toxic cloud. He is unconscious and has bled from his eyes, nose, mouth and ears. .

The final scene we see it is morning. The cloud is gone, and it's bright snowy morning. We then get a cinematic survey confirming that everyone has indeed committed suicide-even the young pregnant woman who didn't want to kill her unborn child finally gave in to her boyfriend's insistence that they "go together." The lesbian has stabbed to death her lover because her lover vomited up the exit pill, the scene shows them both dead on the kitchen floor.

The final shot is on the face of the young boy who earlier we assumed had died and thus didn't take the pill. He opens his eyes. Confirming that he has survived. The government lied or was wrong. Then the credits roll.

Filming for this movie wrapped before the COVID lockdowns. Which I think is a strange coincidence because it lightly touched on several themes that we're all dealing with today. Should you blindly trust the media and authorities?

I'm not sure how I'd categorize this film. It's not a serious piece of fiction. It most certainly wasn't a comedy, and it wasn't much of a horror movie either. With that said, I kind of enjoyed it because of the actors.