I saw two movies over the weekend. "Flight" with my girlfriend. We planned to see "Life of Pi", but it was sold out. Not a bad movie. Denzel is Denzel.
Then I saw "Silent Hill: Redemption" with my son (his choice obviously). It as quite easily the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire 51-year life. I could have predicted that when my son told me it as the sequel to a movie based on a video game (that's two strikes right there). Here's what Rotten Tomatos says about it:
"Featuring weak characters, an incomprehensible plot, and a decided shortage of scares, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is a mediocre effort even by the standards of video game adaptations."
Tomatometer Rating = 6% (which is actually better than Joel Freeland's FG%)
They are being way too kind. It was the dumbest, least scary, least suspenseful movie I've ever seen. Nothing, I mean NOTHING that happened made any sense at all. Random nameless characters were introduced for the sole purpose of being killed off within minutes. Scared girl in mannequin factory? Yep, she'll be dead within 5 minutes. No surprise there. It was so incomprehensible that characters would periodically break into monologues to TRY to explain what as going on. They couldn't.
After 12 minutes, I began to wish it really was a video game so someone would kill the main character and the game, errrr, movie would be over.
BNM
