So this is a long over-due post about the movie "Silent Hill." A movie that goes down"HILL" after the first hour..LoLz, I just made a hack critic joke. "Silent Hill (2006)"
This movie starts off O'Kay then gets kind of stupid. Let me explain: Christopher (Sean Bean,) and Rose Di Salva's (Radha Mitchels,) daughter sleepwalks in the middle of the night and talks about this place called Silent Hill. One day Rose decides to take her to the town of Silent Hill hoping it will cure her daughters sleeping problems.
The actors are good. I like Sean Bean so maybz I'm a bit biased...I thought he was decent. I hated the lady cop. Ugh she pissed me off. I guess her acting was good if the point of her character in the beginning was to just get me 100% annoyed. The mother is good..yeah. The acting is overall good but the story suffers majorly.
So hears the first bit of silliness. She stops at a Diner if my memory serves me correctly to get directions. This nosey dyke cop checks on her daughter in the car and gets this sort of "kidnapped child vibe." Meanwhile in the diner Rose learns that the entrance to the town is closed off. So. She leaves...drives off. The dyke cop follows her and pulls her over. As our lady officer of the law approaches the car Rose puts the pedal to the metal and speeds the fuck off. -Why? Who the fuck in their right mind would do this? Especially with your daughter in the car.. Someone will go, "D00D it's a muvie!1!" and I will respond with: "Shut the hell up. The movie tries to be somewhat serious..then takes a completely silly turn.." End of discussion.
-Thanks to the mothers wonderful fucking thinking they break through the gate into Silent Hill but then completely crash their vehicle, and so does the pursuing officer. Rose wakes up un Silent Hill alone, her daughter is gone. She goes looking for her. Meets up with the annoying cop character (I was literally annoyed by her character..like what a nosey bitch. This whole thing is all her fault. For realz.) Things go on..yeah. I love the whole idea of Silent Hill...there's like a peaceful time..then that alarm goes off and the darkness consumes the town and all these "demons" and shit come out. I don't know what they're considered but they come out and tear you apart.
Halfway through they learn that if you go into a church you are safe from the demons or whatever the fuck they are. So basically one of the sickest and whacked out deaths I've ever seen on screen happens..and from that moment on the movie blows. It turns into a whole different movie with witches and all kinds of other ridiculous bullshit. There is then a suprise ending that for me was obvious from 40 minutes in. You may say "Big deal..not everyone will notice it." Guess what? I've never called a suprise ending in my life EVER. That's how obvious this one was. I'm usually not very good at realising these things, but this was EASY..
This may seem like an overly negative review but I really didn't hate the movie. Like I said I really liked the first hour or so. The tension and mood set in the first hour was so fucking good. Like I can't explain it. I can't think of another movie that had such a creepy and cool mood this year. Although I will say that the character known as Pyramid Head is fucking awesome...They did really good but totally screwed the ending up..big time. The end of the movie for me felt like I was suddenly watching an entirely different movie. Just bleh.
Also, how terrible is the poster I used for this post? I like the poster and the idea of the poster..but doesn't it look way photoshopped and rough? Like..I could probably make a poster like that if I had the pictures and I fucking SUCK at photoshop and all those other programs. Anyways, don't buy "Silent Hill,"..rent it or get it some other way.
Numerical Review: 6 out of 10.
IMDB link for "Silent Hill."
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