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« on: April 22, 2006, 02:28:33 am »
Well, I went to see Silent Hill at 7:00 in E-Town, and here is my review of it.
WARNING: SPOILERS ALERT
The movie was overall, pretty good. The characters are (for the most part) well developed.
Rose, Sharon's mother, was a good actor. She had a few really BAD lines, where essentially, doom was lurking an inch from someone's head and she would blurt out "It's okay. I'm here," and she did this multiple times. Everyone in the audience laughed. Including myself.
Cybil, the cop that follows Sharon from a gas station outside the town of Silent Hill, was a great actor. However, she had a bad line too. "What the !@#$%!! What the !@#$%, what the !@#$%!?" Cybil was a tough chick, and a great character.
Sharon, Rose's daughter is quite an interesting character. She...well, keep reading as I explain the plot.
Sharon has problems with sleepwalking. In a violent sleepwalking tantrum, she shouts "SILENT HILL! SILENT HIIILLLL" Sharon was adopted by Rose in an orphanage in West Virginia, which is where Silent Hill is, apparently. So Sharon and Rose go to Silent Hill to solve this sleepwalking problem. Rose and Sharon stop at a gas station on the way to Silent Hill to get gas, when Cybil, a cop who just so happens to be at the gas station, starts to get suspicious. As Rose and Sharon take off, Cybil follows. Cybil makes them pull over, but when she hops off her bike, Rose and Sharon start evading her. As Rose gets closer to Silent Hill, the car's Radio begins to make static noises (as in the SIlent Hill games when monsters are near) Rose puts it to the metal and starts speeding down the road to Silent Hill, but a ghostly apparition appears in front of the speeding car, causing Rose to swerve and promptly crash.
When she awakens, Sharon is missing. Rose runs into town, and follows what she believes is Sharon. A horrific, but...confusing adventure ensues.
The movie had too many characters who weren't explained well enough, caushing much confusion. As I understand it, back before Silent Hill was burned by a huge fire, a little girl bearing an uncanny resemblance to Sharon, named Alessa, is accused of being a witch. Because...she had no father? That's how I undertsood it. The Chruch of Silent Hill proceeds to burn Alessa over a fire because...she is a witch. Alessa is burned close to death, but then is...rescued or something? (I can't remember) and she is taken to a hospital.. She has so much hatred and pain inside of her, that she creates Sharon, a good version of Alessa, and she also creates a new, unburned version of herself.
Now, back to the present. Every few hours or so, a siren breaks the Silence of the town. After the siren goes off for a few minutes, the darkness of Alessa spreads from the depths of hell. The entire town, every room and building is consumed with her hatred and pain. With her darkness comes the monsters that she created to punish the people of SIlent Hill who burned her. One of these monsters comes my favorite monster EVER.
PYRAMID HEAD!
He is so !@#$% awesome in this movie. In one scene, as the darkness starts to spread through the world, Pyramid Head rises from the darkness. He grabs a character named Anna (whose acting BLOWED. She sucked, seriously) and he grabs her clothes and rips them off, leaving her nude. He then grabds her neck, twists her skin and PULLS IT OFF. All the skin on her body, gone. As the other characters run into the safety of the church (where darkness cannot enter) he whips the bloody mass of flesh at the closing church doors. !@#$% AWESOME.
The Church is one !@#$% up place. The people there believe that any person not like them is a witch. And they burn them. But, darkness cannot enter there.
I won't say much more about the movie, other than I would watch it again. It is very confusing toward the end of the film, because there are so many characters and connections between them that arent explained too well, it leads to confusion.
But seriously, 7 bucks is worth this movie. It's actiony, gory, and...unintentionally funny at times.
Go watch it.
!@#$% PYRAMID HEAD ROCKS MY SOCKS!
WHOO!
