jan-hranac

Full disclosure: I don't like the American tradition of Santa. It insults the memory of the real St. Nicholas and mocks the whole tradition of Christmas (both the Christian and the pagan side of it). That being said, I always enjoyed Santa Claus comedies (e.g. Violent night), for as long as they were fun.

Unfortunately, the title of this review says it already. This production is too big, there are too many stars. There's a fine line between pushing boundaries and going too far. This movie went too far in taking itself seriously. At the same time, it's still ridiculous in many places.

Still, it's a well crafted movie and I don't anything concrete to criticize here.

Wikipedia says that this episode is inspired by Iraq war (the second one, I presume) and World War 2.

Wrong! The Resistance mini-series and the whole beginning of season 3 is clearly inspired by socialist regimes. If you take away the suicide bombings, you get a carbon copy of the communist regime in my country. And while we didn't have any suicide bombings, or Ceylons (no, wait a minute, Russians are exactly like those guys), or Battlestars rushing to our rescue, we did have some extreme characters taking extreme measures during those times (cough, the Masine brothers, cough, finally a medal, cough).

A perfect back-door anti-left-wing message, if you ask me.