Hardly Oscar worthy, but enjoyable all the same.
When the original Silent Hill movie was released, I was more than a little bit skeptical. I mean, how could you possibly capture the relentlessy terrifying atmosphere of the games and transfer it successfully over to film? Fair enough, the film wasn't nearly as scary or as engrossing as the games were, but for a movie based on a videogame, it was surprisingly good, great even.
The success of the original silent hill movie made me hopeful that the sequel would be just as good, if not better than the first film. And while Silent Hill Revelation never quite scales the heights reached by the original film, it's an enjoyable tale with some very impressive and spooky moments sprinkled throughout.
First thing I have to commend are some of the casting choices. The gorgeous Adelaide Clemens is perfectly cast as Heather and I can't think of anyone more fitting to play the silent hill 3 heroine. Sean Bean was criticised in the original movie for his poor american accent. However he...
Not what I would have expected
Story takes a complete 360 degree flip from the first movie. To put it simply who is the good guys and who are the bad guy's. If you ask me the writer was sniffing glue on this one. In the first movie the crazy cult church people were the bad guys, and this one was the little girl. The writer was just trying to drag out a second movie from what was a decent story and botched it all up. I know he was trying to answer questions from the first movie, but sometimes it's better to leave it to the imagination. This movie was boring and drug out, rent it but I wouldn't buy it.
Missing the Mark
Except for a handful of gruesome, excellent special effects, Silent Hill: Revelation, the sequel to Silent Hill, does not offer much in storytelling and variety in the popular video game series.
Heather Mason goes in search of her father at Silent Hill, after he clearly and urgently forbids her to stay far away from the dangerous, bloody otherworld. While there, she must also find Vincent, a boy she met at All Hallow’s High. But soon the inevitable darkness permeates, the air raining in flakes of ash, and weird things start to happen. Mannequins come to life, faceless entities jump out of the dark, and spider-like skitters cross Heather’s path, deterring her from finding her father.
Silent Hill is atmospheric, gory, and offers enough action-packed sequences to keep the viewer tuned in to see what will happen next. But for the most, amid the stilted acting, bad dialogue and far-reaching plot, Silent Hill is nothing more than an hour thirty-five...
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