With any luck, we’ll have even more time to choose to ignore it when it finally arrives. Bereft of the eerie, dreamlike quality of Gans’ film, this is just plain lazy filmmaking, which, when it comes to horror films adapted from video games, means: Expect a sequel. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER UNDER SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT pyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976, allowance is made for fa. Christophe Gans’ 2006 Silent Hill is the Citizen Kane – or possibly The Magnificent Ambersons – of Silent Hill movies compared to this flaccid, dumb, and wicked-boring sequel. Characters pop in and out with assorted bits of long-winded exposition that are necessary for the heroine to make it to the next scene (read: “level”), but even that fails to coalesce into anything that might create a proper shudder. Malcolm McDowell, Carrie-Anne Moss, and (Hal Hartley regular) Martin Donovan all make cameo appearances that reek of boat-payment gigs, but the real crime here is just how much this particular entry in the not-quite-a-franchise feels like a video game. After pop is kidnapped by the demon cult and transported back to the netherworld, Sharon – who, as in the first film, is not who she thinks she is (or is she? Arrgh! My mind!) – returns to the haunted hell-town to save him, or confront her evil twin, or be freaked out by the faceless demons, or … who knows? Or, for that matter, cares? Sean Bean Birth Name: Shaun Mark Bean Birth Place: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Profession Actor Actor 106 Credits Marriage 2022 Time 2021 World on Fire 2019 The Oath Lady Chatterley 2018. I realize it’s called Silent Hill for a reason, but enduring this botched (video game-based) nightmare is like sleepwalking into the world’s dullest Halloween party.Īussie newcomer Adelaide Clemens is Sharon (played in the original by Jodelle Ferland), who is now 18 years old and on the run – with dad (Sean Bean) in tow – from the evil forces of the first film. A knockoff in everything from style to story, it also suffers from 3-D effects that are dim and underwhelming, a maddeningly obtuse storyline, and performances that could have used some serious Herbert West-style reanimation. With Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sean Bean. Women and mothers rule both this world and Hell, fighting against one another in the age-old battle of good and evil. Silent Hill: Revelation: Directed by M.J. Check out the first image from the film below.Without the atmospherically batrachian fun of 2006’s Silent Hill, this turgid and wholly unrevelatory semisequel is August Derleth to the previous film’s H.P. Silent Hill is first and foremost a matriarchy. Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) R 95 min Horror, Mystery, Thriller 4. Director: Christophe Gans Stars: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger Votes: 233,566 Gross: 46.98M 2. Until then you can (and should) try and catch Bean in his latest sword-wielder, Black Death, out this month. A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. In any case, BD has no word yet on a release date, only that the film is “lensing in Toronto,” so if you’re really chomping at the bit to get your Silent Hill: Revelation 3D news, hold tight a little longer. I’m left a tad confused, and forgive me as I struggle to remember that gem of a first film, but why the name change? I do recall Bean’s name being Christopher De Silva in the original, so is Harry some kind of alias? Do demonic forces really care what your name is? A rose by any other name, I suppose. Dare to step inside the horrific town of Silent Hill, where darkness preys on every soul and Hells creations await around every corner. Based on the historical fiction series by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe is. Subsequently, Harry disappears and Heather must find him, only to learn that “she’s not who she thinks he is.” Sean Bean first became a household name as the titular character of the British drama Sharpe, which ran from 1993 to 1997. Bassett ( Solomon Kane), the film focuses on Heather Mason (Clemens), who is still running from the dark and evil terrors from the first film with her father, Harry (Bean) on the cusp of her 18th birthday. Bean will be potentially taking a paycheck alongside Adelaide Clemens ( X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Kit Harington (HBO’s Game of Thrones – also starring Bean). To-be-directed by Michael J. While Sean Bean ( The Lord of the Rings, Black Death) starred in the first Silent Hill, one would only hope that the man had a little self-respect not to return for its follow-up, currently dubbed Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. Chalk up one more film the world doesn’t need, potentially starring an actor who could do much, much better.
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