Accurately promoted as “Die Hard” meets “Home Alone” — but with elaborate gore effects smothering the sharp, machined dialogue of the former and the comically cruel timing of the latter — Tommy Wirkola’s “Violent Night” spends most of its 101 minutes struggling to squeeze every crimson drop out of its one-joke premise: Jolly old St. Nick can be one big, bad vengeful Thor.
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