There are two things that Michael J. Bassett's Silent Hill: Revelation 3D seem to have done accurate. For one, it lives up to its title - it revealed a lot of back story. Perhaps too many of them that the plot began to be too baffling and incomprehensible to even hold on to. For the other, it stayed true to its source material - perhaps too true that the movie, as a whole, began to feel more of a video game rather than a movie. Depending on your childhood, as you commence to exit the theaters, you either appreciate the movie's mediocre attempt of revealing what's left in Silent Hill; or head-scratch your way home.
Movies based on video games are often failing in nature, but Revelation seem to descend even to that already low norm. I could list video game movies that were agonies to attend to, but what if one of us dies out of so much loathe? Screw it, I'll tell you. Well for starters, Resident Evil movies, while they have their own merits, is one of the immortal franchises you really want to kill. Paul W.S. Anderson earned a wife in this movies, so it's not too hard to forgive, but director Uwe Boll who made the more terrible ones like In The Name of the King, BloodRayne and House of the Living Dead, is an entirely different story. As I have said, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D deserves a space on a list along these titles.
Sean Bean is in here, if that stands for any consolation. He always play the loving father if he's not tied to playing as a King in The Game of Thrones. In this he plays the father of Sharon (Adelaide Clemens), a teenager who is maimed by her nightmares. Constant reminders of "Silent Hill". The past (unbeknownst to her) that Sharon and the town share haunts her reality. Events take quick turns to evil only escalating the need to visit the "cursed" town.
Bean and his estimable presence, however, won't save the movie's poorly written script, overly contrived if not completely tacky characterization and wooden acting (majority of, would be coming from Clemens and Bean's Thrones co-star, Kit Harington and their uneven performances). Malcolm McDowell plays a demented creature in this; he later dies in a very laughable manner. The kind of joke that isn't, the kind of funny that isn't? Bassett, that was insulting.
Despite its brisk run time, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D remained an ordeal to watch.
In the very last frames of the movie, faded letters appear amid the foggy landscape. A road sign. In dull colors the sign board read: "You are now leaving Silent Hill," is this the end? I hope it is. Problem is, it's not the end. Of course it's not. The camera later tilts to the other side of the road sign, and so it read: "Welcome to Silent Hill". This, among all the cheap scares and shortage of efficient ones in the movie, is the only authentically frightful thing.
VERDICT: D
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