Fatman (2020) SPOILER FREE REVIEW LIVE | Movies Merica | 12.8.24

Many people think that Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson is a Christmas movie.

This week I retro review a Mel Gibson movie, Fatman, that leaves no doubt that it’s a Christmas movie.

I mean, Gibson plays Santa Claus so come on!

Now this isn’t your fantastical, wondrous North Pole that you see in Rudolph, The Red Nose Reindeer or Elf.

Gibson’s Santa lives on a very northerly remote farm location instead in this more grounded, brilliantly bizarre and violent Christmas tale.

Santa and Mrs. Claus are falling on some hard financial times with all the money they’re spending on making and delivering gifts to all the kids worldwide.

In comes the U.S. military to provide them a new lucrative opportunity to make their not-so-merry money mayhem go away.

Santa has to wrestle with his convictions in deciding on accepting these new “milk and cookies” from them.

As if that weren’t enough, he has no idea that a kid, who rightfully got coal for Christmas, has hired a hitman to kill him.

The hitman, played by the fantastic Walton Goggins, also has a certain bone to pick with jolly ol Saint Nick.

Woe to anyone that gets in his way in his mission, including Santa’s elves.

Is it worth you delaying your Christmas shopping to watch Fatman?

Check out this review to find out!

Fatman also stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield, Susanne Sutchy, Robert Bockstael, Michael Dyson, Deborah Grover, Ellison Grier Butler, Eric Woolfe, Lynne Adams and Ekaterina Baker.