Silent Hill Revelation
Starring Adelaide Clemens, Sean Bean, Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss
Directed by Michael Bassett
Heather (Adelaide Clemens) and her adopted father Harry (Sean Bean) travel from town-to-town, on the run from something Heather doesn't fully understand. They settle in a small town, and she meets fellow newcomer Vincent (Kit Harington), and things seem to return to normal.
Then she finds a private investigator who's been following her, someone who was hired by a mysterious cult that they've been running from. After Harry is abducted by the cult, Heather is instructed to return to Silent Hill, which she has no clue what it means. After finding a letter from Harry, she learns that her real name is Sharon, and she is the one thing that can end the evil reign of the devil Alessa - or make her more powerful than before.
So she delves into the world of Silent Hill to find her father and destroy Alessa, her evil side, for good.
I've never played the Silent Hill games, basically because they were for Playstation and not Nintendo, which I had growing up, but I've always wanted to try them. Maybe not knowing about the game made me not appreciate this film as much, especially after reading some of the back story of the game and the connections to the movie, but I found it to be a completely unoriginal idea. A demon child, whose soul is separated between good and evil, needs the good half to become whole. Seen it before.
The only redeeming quality of the film is the world of Silent Hill itself, an intriguing, fascinating world of true hell filled with fearsome, creepy, and downright chilling monsters. Some of the things I would never want to run into in real life.
With the good part done, I will now go into the bad. There's two really big bad things I found with this film:
1) The waste of talent. With a cast including Sean Bean, Carrie-Anne Moss, Radha Mitchell, Martin Donovan, Deborah Unger and Malcolm McDowell, not much was given to them to work with. Adelaide Clemens, in her first truly leading role, did alright, but her performance was very one-note, not showing much emotion or even fear.
2) The ending. It was way too quick, way too simple, and wasn't very satisfying. They spent a lot of time establishing the mood, characters and story, and then in about five minutes the big bad was destroyed without much effort. A very big let down.
So if you're a fan of the game, you might appreciate this more than I did.
Rating: B
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