{"id":31132,"date":"2012-11-01T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=31132"},"modified":"2012-11-02T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T09:05:29","slug":"silent-hill-revelation-3d-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/silent-hill-revelation-3d-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hill: Revelation 3D film review"},"content":{"rendered":"

By all rights, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D<\/em><\/a> should be a travesty. A sequel to a videogame adaptation in 3D? It ticks all the requisite \u2018oh sod off\u2019 boxes. Yet somehow, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D<\/em> isn\u2019t utterly hateful.<\/p>\n

First, a word of warning: unless you\u2019re a fan of the games, none of Revelation<\/em> will make a lick of sense to you, and all the hilariously straight-faced talk of cults, hell dimensions and beasties will be too much to take in. Those versed in the ways of Silent Hill<\/em>, though, (particularly 3<\/em>, from which this film is adapted) will find a lot to like here, bar a fight at the end that\u2019ll have the hardcore screaming bloody murder.<\/p>\n

Revelation<\/em> takes place a few years after the first movie. Since those events, Sean Bean, his daughter and his American accent<\/a> have been living a somewhat nomadic existence, moving from place to place to avoid the cult that\u2019s been pursuing them. Naturally, this involves having to change names constantly, and they\u2019re now going under the aliases of (wait for it game fans) Harry and Heather Mason (hooray!).<\/p>\n

Things eventually catch up with them, however, and Harry gets dadnapped, meaning Heather (Adelaide Clemens) is forced to go back to the fog-shrouded, nightmare-infested residence to get him back, accompanied by a suspiciously handsome new friend, Vincent (Kit Harington).<\/p>\n

Michael J Bassett clearly is deeply reverential of the games, and it shows in his direction. He\u2019s as equally successful as Christophe Gans was at bringing unlife to the titular town. It looks great, and Bassett takes his time framing the place with long, lingering shots that help build the unsettling atmosphere. It\u2019s well paced, too, with some Jacob\u2019s Ladder<\/em>-esque \u2018reality breaches\u2019 causing some pretty effective jumpscares. Most surprising, though, is that the 3D isn\u2019t too intrusive. It still doesn\u2019t need it, but compared to the motion sickness overload of other movies it\u2019s quite tasteful, with flakes of ash daintily dropping outside the screen, and the hellworld transitions look grotesquely pretty, too. There\u2019s a fairy tale quality to the movie that adds a lot.<\/p>\n

Some of the dialogue is woeful, though, and couldn\u2019t scream OBVIOUS PLOT FORESHADOWING any louder if it tried. That kind of nonsense is forgivable in a game setting, but here it just comes across as embarrassing. Certain characters never really get any screen time either. Carrie-Anne Moss\u2019s character is probably only on screen for a total of five minutes, and even then she seems like she can\u2019t be bothered. Someone\u2019s clearly been a bit too overzealous in the editing suite, as it feels like half the film is missing at times. Some of the acting is bobbins too. Adelaide Clemens is game as Heather, but Kit Harington struggles, though it\u2019s not surprising considering some of the stuff he has to say with a straight face. Sean Bean is always likeable, but his American accent is lacking. He isn\u2019t as terrible with accents as Russell Crowe in Robin Hood<\/em>, but it\u2019s still distracting. It also seems that in his enthusiasm for all things Silent Hill<\/em>, and his slavish attempts at sticking to the game, Bassett failed to write anything resembling a well-structured plot for the screen. All told, it\u2019s a bit of a mess.<\/p>\n

However, the style and atmosphere more than makes up for other shortfalls, and it\u2019d be remiss not to concede that Silent Hill: Revelation 3D<\/em> is effective and ultimately enjoyable popcorn fodder. It\u2019s one of the better videogame adaptations, up there with the original Silent Hill<\/em> and, eh, Doom<\/em>? It\u2019s not illustrious company, but we\u2019re not talking Bloodrayne<\/em> here. And fans of Silent Hill 2<\/em> (the game) will likely go wild about the ending.<\/p>\n

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Game Of Thrones’ Sean Bean and Kit Harington star in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, in cinemas now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":31134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[1342,797,1343,2653,2654],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Silent-Hill-Revelation-3D-film-review.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}