Silent Hill Revelation - Written Review

Now historically speaking video games don't transfer over to movie too well.  One of the more evident examples of this is the attempt at making the horror survivor game Silent Hill into a movie back in 2006.  That movie did as well as the VAST majority of video game movies did and was added to the crappy pile.  Silent Hill was really stupid, many things made no sense, the acting was ish, the directing wasn't good, the cinematography was lame, and was overall a colossal waste of time.  So what did they do 7 years after the fact?  Made a sequel.

The "3D" is silent when you pronounce Revelation3d

That makes sense, right?  Make a sequel to a movie that the audience didn't like.  I mean it worked so well with Ghost Rider.  But they did it anyway.  Now to be fair, if I'm allowed to be with this movie, this one was better than the first one.  That rarely happens, but Silent Hill 2 managed it.  Not to say that this by any means is a good movie, it's not.  It's just better than the first, and if you've seen the first you know that wasn't hard to do.  Not only that, but they were able to sum up the whole 1st movie and made so you didn't need to see it to understand this movie.  No, seriously, Silent Hill 2 did the first movie better than the first movie did.  Again, not a hard task.

Here we come, walkin down the street...

Silent Hill 2 wasn't anymore or less scary than the first movie.  In fact I didn't think either was scary.  However, 2 had a way more coherent story, things made more sense.  Also, it felt like this one was way more loyal to the video game than the first movie.  They did recycle every monster from the first and maybe only added one new one.  I can't remember really, it was dark.  Usually darkness adds to a horror movie, but I think they overused it here.  It's one thing to be dark and hard to see, it's another to annoyingly strobe a light for an entire 5 min scene.

True dat

The best part of this movie was the actors, not that they were able to do anything to save this movie.  Sean Bean and Malcolm McDowell are phenomenal actors, but even they couldn't do enough to save this movie.  Adelaide Clemens wasn't half bad as the lead.  Overall, this movie was indeed much better than the first.  Is it worth watching?  Not really.  Maybe, if you haven't seen the first one.  This movie is by far the best example I have for not needing to watch the first to understand the second.  In fact I'd go so far as to say that it makes more sense if you haven't seen the first one.  Overall, a solid B horror movie.

Film Crazy Adam gives this movie and ish recommendation.  He doesn't really recommend it, but doesn't really think it's a big waste either.  This is a solid B movie.