Wow! Such a good movie.

Fantastic!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Silent Night is one of those TV Movies that they succeed on every level the film is Fact-based upon World War II the story is set on Christmas Eve, 1944, we find a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner. I know that most people will say that Terminator and Terminator 2 is Linda Hamilton's best movies and i totally agree with you but her best performance is in this film she speaks German perfectly and she even speaks American like she isn't an actual American herself. I can't describe how perfect this movie is it's not boring, the acting is amazing and the story so touching if they were just more people like Elisabeth out there in this world today we wouldn't have all this hate in us or killing all those innocent people back then but also today in 2016. Anyways if you haven't seen this movie please do it's such an amazing film with a great performance by Linda Hamilton.

For producing this quality little gem. I've grown pretty tired lately of the poorly-written fluff that passes as "holiday entertainment" this time of year. I'm a WWII buff as well, so I was happy to see this theme so appropriately and meaningfully depicted in this special television event. There are only three other Christmas classics in my collection-- "Scrooge" starring Alistair Sim ( the only true 'Scrooge' in my opinion, everyone else is just trying to keep step)-- Willy Wilder's "Ben Hur" (containing the greatest single action sequence in history, Heston's chariot race), and another wonderful surprise for me, Jim Carrey doing a star turn in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (like Mr. Sim, no one else in Hollywood possessed the necessary skills to do these roles justice). But, I'm happy to say, "Silent Night" has taken it's rightful place of honor in my sadly minescule collection. I was most surprised with Linda Hamilton's effective German accent in the telling, and the forceful performance and singular power of Martin Neufeld playing the over-zealous German Lieutenant as a dramatic counterpoint. I'm only surprised that apparently none of the cast outside of Hamilton ever achieved much bigger screen success as a result. Welcome to Hollywood.

There is a scene early in Silent Night that I thought was indicative of a profoundly cheesy war film that was to follow. A couple American soldiers are passing through a snowy wood when they come across a young German boy. One soldier calls the kid "my friend," and the kid mutters a well-rehearsed line about how they are not friends and never will be, at which point the American soldier gives him a heartwarming speech about how the radio has been deceiving them, and that they are not his enemy, Hitler is. This is a level of preposterous cheesiness that almost reaches propaganda, but even though a German country woman talks some American and German soldiers into disarming and spending some quality time together, it turns out to be a lot better than I expected.Linda Hamilton plays Elisabeth Vincken, a German widow who lost one son and probably her husband (he's only a cook but has been missing for months), and is now living in a small cabin in the woods with her 12-year-old son Fritz, who she is protecting from compulsory military service. Two American and two German soldiers have a confrontation just outside her cabin, and she demands that they leave their weapons outside if they want to take shelter in her home.My initial reaction was that I was not going to be able to tolerate Linda Hamilton speaking German (followed by her German accent, after they switched to English), but the movie deals with many of the difficult realities of war, despite a feeling of being unrealistic. My understanding, however, is that it's based on a true story (which has already been brought to the screen multiple times), but either way, it deals with the fact that wars are fought by guys on both sides that just want to survive and go home safely to their families. One of my favorite scenes in the movie shows the soldiers on both sides compiling all the food they have on them in preparation for their first meal together. It's a perfect way to humanize a bunch of guys with guns, especially when one of the German soldiers has a small package of cookies that his wife made him. A doting wife baking cookies is not exactly the kind of image that Hollywood has taught us to associate with the soldiers of Nazi Germany, but it is undeniably true. Essentially the movie is the story of a small group of "enemies" in World War II who decided to make a temporary truce with each other in honor of Christmas Day. This is a premise fraught with potential pitfalls, but by staying away from confectionery clichés it manages to come across as a disarming analysis of the politicians that create wars and the young men that fight them.

I rather liked this, having bought the DVD just based on these recommendations, although I agree with some of the reviewers in that I find it a little too sweet and naïve in some places. But then, apparently it is based on a true story, and I don't really mind swallowing a little sugariness sometimes. There is just the language issue that made me cringe throughout the film. As a native speaker of German (perhaps the only one here?) I can't agree with the reviewers who praised the actors' accents. Maybe they could impress foreigners with their very fake sounding English-with-a-strong-German-accent, but no German would ever be fooled. The only exception is Cassian Bopp, playing young Heinrich. All the others speak their German lines in a very stiff and wooden way, betraying their origins all the time. And please, is there a German who can read "Moby Dick" and "Huckleberry Finn" in the original and yet forgets to say "and" instead of "und" when speaking English? I think not. Still, I tend to be forgiving because obviously they tried their best. I'll certainly give it another chance – because sometimes a good story covers many sins.