REVIEW OF: Silent Hill
The PLOT: A young girl is tormented by nightmares of a history she's never known from a town long since burned to ashes, whilst her mother seeks to right whatever wrong might have transpired to make her daughter this way... at any cost.
The CAST: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara-Unger
The GOOD: Director Christophe Gans takes us on a thrill ride all its own in this loose adaptation of the hit videogame series. EVERYTHING about this movie was done with a passion not seen in other videogame adaptations, such as "Resident Evil" 1-20, "Street Fighter", and "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". From the editing to the subtle camera work we saw in this franchises first installment being copied over to a new form of media that only aficionados of the games could realize, this film has it all. The vibe. The fear. The character development. Perhaps it's just that I'm a fanboy of the games and of the town, but the fact remains: we've all wanted to experience a live-action rendition of this sordid town with its mysterious inhabitants, and this film brought us as close as we will ever get. It. Could. Not. Have. Been. Done. Better. Period... Though that isn't to say it was without its flaws....
The BAD: Radha Mitchell left a bad taste in my mouth. No, seriously. There were moments where I was sure that her acting was going to make me vomit black tar like one of Silent Hill's many zombie inhabitants. Laurie Holden was also just goddamned awful. Alice Krige and Sean Bean made up for most of their shennanigans, though.
The UNFORTUNATE: The most unfortunate component to this otherwise flawless feature was simply that Radha Mitchell's "mediocre-at-best" acting didn't allow me to believe that she REALLY cared for her daughter. Sean Bean made me truly believe that he wanted his wife back, desperately. Why couldn't Radha have just gotten on board? It didn't seem like that complicated of a role, despite the fact that this shindig had more CG than most movies aside from LOTR.
The GRADE: B+
The CAST: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara-Unger
The GOOD: Director Christophe Gans takes us on a thrill ride all its own in this loose adaptation of the hit videogame series. EVERYTHING about this movie was done with a passion not seen in other videogame adaptations, such as "Resident Evil" 1-20, "Street Fighter", and "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". From the editing to the subtle camera work we saw in this franchises first installment being copied over to a new form of media that only aficionados of the games could realize, this film has it all. The vibe. The fear. The character development. Perhaps it's just that I'm a fanboy of the games and of the town, but the fact remains: we've all wanted to experience a live-action rendition of this sordid town with its mysterious inhabitants, and this film brought us as close as we will ever get. It. Could. Not. Have. Been. Done. Better. Period... Though that isn't to say it was without its flaws....
The BAD: Radha Mitchell left a bad taste in my mouth. No, seriously. There were moments where I was sure that her acting was going to make me vomit black tar like one of Silent Hill's many zombie inhabitants. Laurie Holden was also just goddamned awful. Alice Krige and Sean Bean made up for most of their shennanigans, though.
The UNFORTUNATE: The most unfortunate component to this otherwise flawless feature was simply that Radha Mitchell's "mediocre-at-best" acting didn't allow me to believe that she REALLY cared for her daughter. Sean Bean made me truly believe that he wanted his wife back, desperately. Why couldn't Radha have just gotten on board? It didn't seem like that complicated of a role, despite the fact that this shindig had more CG than most movies aside from LOTR.
The GRADE: B+
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