No Nurses Were Harmed In The Making Of This Film

Silent Hill: Revelations:

Story:

Heather Mason, an elusive teen constantly on the run with her father, Harry, begins to discover why she's on the run when supernatural events begin to occur.

Review:

When continuing a movie series based on a videogame series, one must remember to always keep the sequel at least partly styled like the original. Faithfulness to the source material does not seem to be required (Resident Evil films). With that said, I do have to admit I liked Revelations. It was a semi-faithful adaptation of Silent Hill 3 with some decent casting choices. Sean Bean for example, goes back into his role perfectly as the troubled father Harry, doing his best to protect his daughter.

With this said, Revelations is far from being an amazing film. In fact, it's not even as good as the first Silent Hill film. For one, while there is build up for each intense scene, it always ends in disappointment. There is simply no satisfying outcome, especially in the last scenes, where one would expect an intense and immensely satisfying outcome. And for another, I found the actress for Heather seemed to be the cause for that when it wasn't the director. She simply doesn't cause one to feel intrigued or remotely interested in regards to what is occurring on the screen, which more than often made me want to just stop watching altogether. Other actors displayed as much lack of interest in helping the story along, which obviously just helped lower interest in the overall film.

I will say that the story is great and managed to stay somewhat faithful to the videogame, Sean Bean's performance as Harry was noteworthy, and the special effects are better than the effects for a lot of horror films.

Bottom line, Revelations will manage to satisfy if you watch it just to find out what happens next, just don't expect it to be as good as the first Silent Hill installment.