Vinnie Jones is done being Santa’s enforcer in rollicking short film for World of Tanks

Vinnie Jones, the former British footballer turned actor, indulges his bad-guy persona in a fun holiday film for Wargaming video game World of Tanks—playing Santa’s naughty-list enforcer who’s looking for a career change. Creative agency Cubo and production company Halal collaborated on “Holiday Ops: No Going Back,” a five-minute film that’s set up like a gangster movie—with a hardman Santa and his misfit elves holded up in a not-very-North-Pole-like location when they received an unexpected visitor. Jones arrives a giant tank, with some news for the boss. The film was directed by Andzej Gavriss, a Latvian who is now based in Berlin whose “We Will Become Better” PSA championing gay rights in Russia won two Cannes Lions. The connection between being Santa’s enforcer and wanting to become a commander in World of Tanks isn’t the strongest, but the film makes up for it with visual panache and amusingly over-the-top performances. The four-day shoot was clearly an epic production.

Vinnie Jones is done being Santa’s enforcer in rollicking short film for World of Tanks

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