Move over Bad Santa, here comes bad ass Santa, more Chris Crinkle than Chris Cringle, and you better watch out if you’ve been naughty not nice.

He’s the FATMAN, and he’s sure to restore the cheer of Christmas, arresting it from its recent slow slide into jeer.

Spoiled, rich kid, 12-year-old, Billy Wenan, a proto type future President of The United States if recent history has anything to go by, lives with his ailing grandmother and pines for attention from his absentee father.

Poor diddums has Daddy issues so naturally he is a little shit and shows no remorse when being cruel to the hired help. On Christmas morning, after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking, (Sco Mo would be ecstatic) Billy decides to hire a hitman, known only as Skinny Man, to kill Santa, aka Fatman.

Skinny man also has Santa issues, another proof positive of society creating a sociopath, by feeding impressionable kids lies like Father Christmas.

The crass reality of commercialism is crushing the real spirit of Christmas and somewhere North of Alaska, Fatman, also known as Chris Cringle, is in the middle of a financial struggle. Chris is suffering from a lot of children making bad decisions, the world stopped believing in him and his work is being monetized. He’s becoming a marketing aspect and everyone wants a piece of him. Including the United States Air Force.

The rising number of naughty has caused his government subsidy to slide below his current budget. Working along-side his faithful and pragmatic wife, Ruth, he fights to keep the lights on in the workshop and the elves employed. Not wanting to shelve their Elves, shed their sled, and retire their reindeer, they’re forced to enter a two-month contract with the U.S. military.

The Elves sterling craftsmanship is much sought after by the US Air Force, who probably see Santa’s sleigh as the original Stealth aircraft. And Santa’s assembly line is a sanctioned asset too. It’s toys for big boys, and the military industrial complex is keen to ramp up manufacture, creating slay rides of their own.

FATMAN is a welcome return to form by Mel Gibson, who puts the insanity clause into Santa Claus, a jaded jolly weary of a world that is into grabbing and taking rather than giving and receiving.

Sibling writer/directors ESHOM NELMS and IAN NELMS see Santa as a superhero, more Batman/HellBoy than Superman/Captain America, and deliver the best Christmas movie since Die Hard.