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[JKristine35]

The baby came from out of the Otherworld, and it looks exactly like Alessa. Sharon is definitely the same.

[sh#1fan]

Its direct to DVD/Syfy channel bad, I was shocked. I went to see the movie with zero expectations. I kept telling myself its an adaptation and sequel to the first movie and I shouldn't think about the games at all. It didn't help and every minute I saw had me cringing in my seat. First of all the movie has no sense of progression, tension or emotion. The dialog is laughable, just lifeless and boring.

I have read all the posts and this is the one I agree with the most. I just could not get over the bad acting... and some of the really bad CGI crap. It really felt like a Syfy channel movie.
Some parts of the movie had nothing to do with anything...

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like the spider doll part. WTF was that? it was really bad CGI, It had nothing to do with the plot of the movie. If anything heather ran into someone elses "nightmare". Heather then saves 1 of the random girls and trys to escape, but the girl gets caught (duh) and heather does not do a damn thing... shes like meh... and moves on. Dude she freaked the hell out when douglas died.. but this did not bother her at all

The music was just really bad Re-mixed versions of game music and did not fit with what was going on.
There were so many plot holes. Not plot holes like "it did not fit the game" stuff. Just alot of plot holes within the movie itslef and trying to connect it to the first film.
Then the ending was so bad and purposely leaves it open for so many sequels it makes me sick.

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We could Have a story about 1. Chris finding Rose or 2. travis' story in silent hill or 3. murphys story (because you see a prison bus heading into silent hill). How the hell did these people get to and come out of silent hill???? I thought the road was closed OH OH OH and the PH vs. claudia fight sceen... wow... horrible is a understatement

ughhhh... pretty bad even going in not expecting anything. I give it 4/10 4 because the sets actually looked very nice.. it was everything else that was bad lol

[Imnotazombie]

Just saw it like an hour ago..

Revelations monsters are just there, they feel no connection to whats going on or have any revelance to anything. Pyramid Head is treated as a Pokemon in this movie.... yes... A POKEMON (thanks to my girlfriend for pointing it out). Hes there for nothing, even if they do tell his place in the world in one scene.

The movie's strong point was how it handled the monsters at least thematically. Pyramid Head in this movie was "The Protector", which is basically a metaphor for what her father is to her. And All the monsters without faces represent Heather's lack of identity, the same could be said of the mannequin monster who is all these different people at once.

The first movie just popped them in there without applying them to the story, or the characters. While in the first movie the monsters were scarier, they were also more out of the blue, in this they're made symbolic.

[Sith_Dreamer]

Wow to say reviews are mixed is pretty accurate. Just look at the poll right now.

[Yuki]

It's starting to sound really good to me, based on these reviews (even the negative ones), so I'm looking forward to it. Those people who say the acting and dialogue are 'horrible', did you think that about the first movie too? Because I hear people say that about the first film and bar one or two lines I really don't feel that way about the film.

I think the acting and dialogue are overall better in this than in the first.

Some parts of the movie had nothing to do with anything...

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like the spider doll part. WTF was that? it was really bad CGI, It had nothing to do with the plot of the movie. If anything heather ran into someone elses "nightmare". Heather then saves 1 of the random girls and trys to escape, but the girl gets caught (duh) and heather does not do a damn thing... shes like meh... and moves on. Dude she freaked the hell out when douglas died.. but this did not bother her at all

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I agree that the mannequin spider sequence was unnecessary. I loved the scare moment when she bumped into a mannequin--it definitely was referencing the game--but that entire scene, and especially Suki, could have been completely removed. The only thing about the mannequin monster is that it had some elements of the Split Worm.

The music was just really bad Re-mixed versions of game music and did not fit with what was going on.

I completely disagree. There were only one or two parts that stood out as weird to me.

There were so many plot holes. Not plot holes like "it did not fit the game" stuff. Just alot of plot holes within the movie itslef and trying to connect it to the first film.

Elaborate, please? I didn't see any huge leaps in logic. It had to retcon some stuff in connecting itself to the first film, yes--and yeah, I disliked that--but I don't remember any actual plot holes.

Then the ending was so bad and purposely leaves it open for so many sequels it makes me sick.

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We could Have a story about 1. Chris finding Rose or 2. travis' story in silent hill or 3. murphys story (because you see a prison bus heading into silent hill). How the hell did these people get to and come out of silent hill???? I thought the road was closed OH OH OH and the PH vs. claudia fight sceen... wow... horrible is a understatement

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I'm willing to bed that Travis and the prison bus were both nods to fans. Hell, the writer even said himself that Travis was simply a cameo. The police cars heading there were the continuation of the plot thread from the beginning of the movie, and the bus, as I said, was a nod to Downpour rather than sequel bait. If anything, we get the Chris/Rose story as bait, but again that could just be a nod to SH2.

Also, the road wasn't closed; the town is abandoned, but it's only in the Fog World that it's cut off.

[alone in the town]

I will start by saying two things.

First, I liked the original movie for what it was: cinematic fanfiction. It was nothing great but nailed the aesthetics, and that is really most of what I wanted from it.

Second, I think it is absurd to criticize the movie for not sticking to the plot of Silent Hill 3 and changing the characters around. It only really mimics the plot, loosely, and the characters are mostly not anything like you know.

Okay. That said, the movie was a giant pile of shit.

The score was good. Nothing special, but it proves to me that anybody can do what Akira does and make it workable at least. The visuals (I saw it in 2D) were also acceptable, my major issue with them being that most of the movie is spent in the Darkness, and the Darkness is very well-lit.

The story is pure nonsense, though. This movie should not have been a continuation of the first, and it is clear to me that Bassett performed a large number of ass-pulls to make the two flow into each other. Also, this movie seemed to be half backstory. Seemed like almost all of the first movie's events were recapped throughout, in addition to other things needed to set up this stupid story. Finally, remember that scene in the first where Alessa stops the horror movie for three hours to talk about everything that happened before the movie? Yeah. I hope you really enjoyed it, because "Silent Hill: Exposition" would have made for a more accurate title for this film.

The characters are not much better, mostly due to the really awful dialogue, but a lot of it is acting. The most significant problem is that there are useless characters in this movie (the synopsis below will go into more detail about that). Another is that characters recover from really horrifying things with incredible speed. There's very little sense that anyone experiencing these things is afraid of them. Why should I be, then? Finally, the movie is paced much faster than it should be, so character development, where there is any, comes in huge chunks which you really do not have much of an opportunity to digest before other things start happening.

Following is a synopsis of the movie. I will spoil every goddamn thing. So don't read it if that matters to you.

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Firstly, we get a Rose cameo, who shows up for her one scene to deliver some backstory. Apparently, she found a way to get Sharon out of the Otherworld and into reality once again. This is how we get our Seal of Metatron. No mention is made of how long it took for Rose to do this, how she figured out it was even possible, or what she and Sharon did in the meantime. The first movie had that neat ending and this was Bassett's quick solution to that problem.

Second, we get to see Harry Bean and Heather moving into their new apartment (which was cluttered with unopened boxes even though the house actually looked like they'd been living in it for weeks). This gives us the chance to get more backstory (basically, it follows the game's backstory at this part, with Bean killing a krazy kultist).

Then, we take a brief interlude into Ernest Goes to Silent Hill 3

when Douglas Cartland makes his appearance, stalking Heather just like in the game but being like fifty times creepier about it. We get an Otherworld scene shortly thereafter where this very dumb monster cuts off Doug's fingers. There is a brief moment of shock and then both he and Heather are kind of "well, that happened". This is something that happens a lot in this movie, by the way; no matter how terrible something is in this movie, no character is affected by it for more than three seconds. Then Doug says "I BET THAT MONSTER IS GONE FOREVER" or something like that. It will surprise nobody that, instead of being gone forever, that monster kills Douglas offscreen five seconds after he says that. Heather is concerned about this for a minute and then goes home.

After this point, Bean gets kidnapped by kultists who leave Heather a note written in strawberry syrup on the wall, reminding the audience that this is really just a shitty and unimaginative horror movie when you get right down to it. At least the plot does attempt to explain why they didn't just wait for Heather to come home and kidnap her, even though the reason is arbitrary and stupid.

By this point we have already met Vincent, who is the new boy in High School and is pretty much Edward from Twilight

who establishes immediately unconvincing romantic tension with Heather and turns out to be Claudia's daughter (get MS Word ready, pornfic writers) and takes her to Silent Hill. It turns out that he was given a giant Silent Hill prison tattoo and sent out into the real world for this express purpose, which is really stupid. Anyway, he does this and then (I don't remember how because it is stupid) he ends up in front of Bean, who is being held prisoner by Ann Coulter



who starts with the whole 'this movie has been scary for the last 45 seconds, so let's just talk for awhile' thing again. But hey, Ann Coulter is a more convincingly hateful and insane religious nutjob than Claudia was in the game, so props to Bassett for using her likeness in the movie.

I don't remember when it happens but at some point here, Heather finds herself in a mannequin factory and rescues a woman whose only line in the entire movie is 'I got lost in the fog'. They meet a spider mannequin which is actually kind of creepy. Thankfully, both Heather and this other woman climb through an air shaft to safety, because there's no way this movie would do something as ridiculous as introduce a character for no other reason than to let a monster actually kill someone.

Ha ha ha. Yeah, right.

Because this story takes place on a high-speed plot railroad, Heather magically finds herself at the next plot relevant location. This is Brookhaven asylum, which is sort of implied to be the same place as Brookhaven Hospital in the first movie (by way of it being "close to Alessa".

There, Heather meets Leonard, who is more than happy to deliver even more plot exposition before he transforms into Doodoo Monster. He is abruptly killed thanks to his having an obvious, glowing weak point

and Malcolm McDowell promptly erases this movie from his resume.

It would seem as if the kultists have been renovating places around town? Anyway, they use this place to, uh, fix people who don't tow the company line anymore. This apparently consists of being wheeled into a room full of demon nurses and left there, as happens to our dreamy male lead Team Vincent. Two kult goons are killed because they are too fucking dumb to realize that nurses react to noise. Heather sneaks up and asks WHERE'S MAH DADDEH. He agrees to help find him. The nurses are generously less violent to them for some reason even though they make a shit ton of racket and they fuck off to Lakeside Amusement Park.

So then, after Vincent runs interference for Heather, we get the Memory of Alessa 'fight', in which Alessa now looks like a mime in a goth outfit, and they have a tense and suspenseful hug.

Which makes them whole again. For some reason. This movie sucks.

More plot exposition and then we have the climax, in which Heather gives Ann Coulter the completed Seal of Metatron. This makes Ann Coulter turn into a Cenobite




Then Pyramid Head shows up and they fight to the death. Obviously not his. This is extremely stupid and also canon.

Then Sean Bean violates the Code of Sean Bean and neither dies nor betrays anyone, though he does elect to stay and look for Rose so that we have a segue into a possible sequel.

And, then, finally, we get the ending. You see a tractor trailer ride up the road towards our escaped protagonists and you just know it is Travis Grady driving because Silent Hill loves being self-referential. As they drive away, you see police lights. Turns out this is a convoy leading a bus which might not have Murphy Pendleton onboard but probably does.

fin

I went into this with an open mind. And my open-minded opinion is that this movie is terrible.

3/10.

[branj70]

Ouch, a bit harsh?

Didn't think it was THAT bad but ok. lol. Maybe I'm just way too forgiving of a video game/movie adaptation, but what ever.

[JKristine35]

Just saw it like an hour ago..

Revelations monsters are just there, they feel no connection to whats going on or have any revelance to anything. Pyramid Head is treated as a Pokemon in this movie.... yes... A POKEMON (thanks to my girlfriend for pointing it out). Hes there for nothing, even if they do tell his place in the world in one scene.

The movie's strong point was how it handled the monsters at least thematically. Pyramid Head in this movie was "The Protector", which is basically a metaphor for what her father is to her. And All the monsters without faces represent Heather's lack of identity, the same could be said of the mannequin monster who is all these different people at once.

The first movie just popped them in there without applying them to the story, or the characters. While in the first movie the monsters were scarier, they were also more out of the blue, in this they're made symbolic.

All of the monsters in the first movie were incredibly symbolic of Alessa's story, they just didn't stop so characters could say it out loud.

Also, I agree with Ryan, except that I was more upset about the retcons of the first film than everything else.

[Imnotazombie]

Just saw it like an hour ago..

Revelations monsters are just there, they feel no connection to whats going on or have any revelance to anything. Pyramid Head is treated as a Pokemon in this movie.... yes... A POKEMON (thanks to my girlfriend for pointing it out). Hes there for nothing, even if they do tell his place in the world in one scene.

The movie's strong point was how it handled the monsters at least thematically. Pyramid Head in this movie was "The Protector", which is basically a metaphor for what her father is to her. And All the monsters without faces represent Heather's lack of identity, the same could be said of the mannequin monster who is all these different people at once.

The first movie just popped them in there without applying them to the story, or the characters. While in the first movie the monsters were scarier, they were also more out of the blue, in this they're made symbolic.

All of the monsters in the first movie were incredibly symbolic of Alessa's story, they just didn't stop so characters could say it out loud.

How are the monsters in the first movie symbolic with what went on in the story/character's heads? To me that movie felt like a blended up version of the whole series, the director picking out what he thought was "coolest", where as this film tried to capture the psychological/thematic spirit of the games. Again not saying Bassett fully succeeded, his execution was totally off kilter, but none of the monsters felt obligatory to me like they did in the first film.

[Moosefrenzy]

This movie was an excellent adaptation from the game. It had all the elements you can ask for & you can tell the director, writers, staff, etc did their homework. Yes it has it's differences from the game but it's a movie and it works. Revelation will not lose the general audience and has standout references & surprises for players of the games. I truly enjoyed the entire ending and am anxious to find out which direction they're moving in for the third. There are obvious clues.

SH Revelation delivered much more than what I anticipated.

[Imnotazombie]

This movie was an excellent adaptation from the game. It had all the elements you can ask for & you can tell the director, writers, staff, etc did their homework. Yes it has it's differences from the game but it's a movie and it works. Revelation will not lose the general audience and has standout references & surprises for players of the games. I truly enjoyed the entire ending and am anxious to find out which direction they're moving in for the third. There are obvious clues.

SH Revelation delivered much more than what I anticipated.

I actually thought adaptation wise it was quite strong. It's how it was executed as a movie that was problematic. Bassett needs to put more faith in his audience and not spell out everything with cheesy exposition. And really even that would've been fine if it were only to recap the first movie. But they were basically recapping it over and over again throughout the film. All the shit that transpired in the first 5 minutes was enough. The rest of the movie should've breathed more and done with out it. Not to say I didn't enjoy the film a lot, but I can't help but believe that's because I'm such a fan of the series, and the 3rd game especially.

[JKristine35]

Grey Children: Obvious representations of Alessa's pain during the burning.
Armless Man: Alessa's inability to move or speak after being burned, causing her to build so much acidic hatred that it finally exploded out of her.
Janitor: The horrific nature of Alessa's rape.
Creepers: Representations of the cult, swarming over and devouring everything in sight.
Nurses: Alessa's memory of her busty nurse.
Pyramid Head: Alessa's view of men and masculinity.

[alone in the town]

I do agree that Silent Hill: Revelations is a pretty decent adaptation of Silent Hill 3. But, Silent Hill 3 has the worst story in the whole series, so that is not saying a great deal.

[astral]

I'm glad that a lot of you enjoyed it.

First off, my whole experience seeing the movie was off to a bad start seeing as I drove to the cinema like a madman because I was going to be a few minutes late. Fortunately enough for me, it took about 25 minutes for the film to start (while listening to a really shitty music.) Then I was notified that they had issues playing the 3D version so I had to see it in 2D.
Nothing to do with the actual film but still.

Anyways, the writing and acting were both pretty bad. I felt like I could have strapped on various wigs and played all the characters better than the actors. The writing was terrible so I understand it wasn't entirely the actors' fault. I was hoping only the first scenes between Heather and Harry (and Radha and pseudo-Jodelle, God) were going to be cheesy, but it turned out most of the movie was.

Pacing was arguably the worst thing. It took far too long to get to Silent Hill and the amount of time there wasn't much. Characters were introduced and gone way too fast and so we had virtually no character development. Scenes were gone too quickly for us to appreciate. I did like how Pyramid Head didn't have as much screen time as I originally thought he would, they didn't force him on us. I do think we should have saw more Claudia, though.

I really enjoyed the mannequin spider scene and thought it was pretty creepy, but it went by way too fast. Suki was pretty much pointless and the scene probably would have been stronger if Heather were there alone.
The scene itself was out of place but still done nicely.

Visuals were nice, not as nice as the first film, but still nice.

Music was good, but I do wish we had more variety. There was basically no chilling tunes when there easily could have been. (I shit myself to Enshrouding Darkness.)

The first film was amazing, the writing wasn't at all bad, the acting was pretty good, and the aesthetics and environment were perfect. I was hoping this film would have had more screen time for monsters and actual combat (my main gripe from the first was the lack of), and while it did, it wasn't the way I wanted.

I may go see it soon in 3D, but only if my best friend wants to see it seeing as he's playing the third game now.

I went in really optimistic but I was disappointed.

[VinnySplendelicious]

I saw it myself just now. I have to go with the more bad reviews. There were some homages tat were pretty cool, but other than that, the quality of this film was far less than that of the first. It didn't FEEL like Silent Hill very much to me, it felt like a direct to DvD generic horror flick with Silent Hill elements. I could have dealt with everything else if only this movie was good-quality. I thought I was watching an overly-long episode of the Twilight zone. I'm thinking about doing a video review, but it seems the other reviews have already expressed my opinions. I thought if anything it was an expensively-made fan film.

Also, I'm a huge fan of the first, and I consider it one of my favorite films. The bad acting and dialogue never bothered me, because it felt more like an art film anyway. This is just something completely different. There were some great ideas, but the film is just poorly made, and the lower budget shows big time.

[Garmonbozey]

Going to see it again to see how I feel afterward. After my initial viewing I'm a bit let down. Thoughts:

As a 3D thrill-ride it's pretty great. A lot of 3D effects are wonderfully done and seeing familiar Silent Hill environments in an extra dimension was worth admission price. The sets were fantastic, the monsters looked fantastic, visual direction and style and CGI were all great. The music was fitting but could use more variety, seeing as we've got about 7 full albums of sounds to choose from and there were only a few familiar tracks.

It was really fun to see the easter eggs and I'm going to be on the lookout for more. I liked seeing the map on the wall of the asylum, and the reference to Happy Burger, and the Cinderella heel, and Robbie, and how one of Heather's pseudonyms was "Mary". I also love that the movie starts with Heather receiving her iconic vest: it's a really self-aware, really great nod to the fans.

One very important aspect they got mostly right is Heather. I was worried she wouldn't be as bitchy as her game counterpart, but she is all the attitude and all the heart of game Heather in many scenes. In spite of this, there are some scenes where she doesn't react appropriately. Like others have mentioned, she doesn't showcase enough consistent fear after monster encounters. Another example of inconsistency is her random "I'm an action babe now!" lines in the Leonard scene. Apart from those, Clemens did a terrific job and looks just the part.

Many of the other characters have inconsistencies as well. Or it's not really inconsistencies, but weak writing: a lot of what characters say or do is for the obvious sake of the audience. Chris talking at a photograph for example. Those things scream "YOU'RE WATCHING A MOVIE" and break the fictive spell.

I liked Suki and Vincent. Suki was an important way to demonstrate that other people are entering the town and being victimized and I think it served its purpose. Vincent was an interesting concept, I like the idea of someone being raised in the otherworld and wanting release, but he needed a lot more nuance and time to develop. Douglas was a non-entity, but fun to see. Claudia was fine, and looked cool and all that, but was unexpectedly overshadowed by Christabella from the first film in terms of commanding a presence.

Rose's presence was the worst part, for me. Or I should say her lack of presence. And her dialogue. We followed her for the entire first movie and all her character gets is hammy dialogue, a deus ex-machina retcon from hell, and the reward that the very daughter she saved is barely even aware of her sacrifice. You could say that it's meaningful that Heather is doing what she can to help Chris, as if she she were following in Rose's foot-steps, but the movie itself sure doesn't say it.

The mall scenes were hokey and far, far too graphic considering the source material. It comes off as self-aware, at least, which makes it somewhat digestible. In fact I think a lot of the things wrong with the film come off as confidently schlocky, which makes it seem like Basset knew what he was doing and just didn't care about being deeper than a puddle. The atmosphere was great in spots but relied far too much on jump scares, and there are many flourishes reminiscent of a generic kind of horror film, in that the SFX has theater boom and the script has bad, pandering humor.

I don't dislike the idea that Pyramid Head is a protector, but it needed a lot more attention. The ending fight is so random and showy that I really doubt everyone will remember a line of exposition about PH being a protector from the car scene, especially if they're newcomers, in the midst of such mindless action for action's sake. And even so, he's a protector...so what? Why is it important she have a protector? Why is it important enough to kill the antagonist of the entire movie in one swoop? Maybe you could link it to her father somehow, he was right there and the entire movie is about saving him, but no, it just seems like a random epic battle while the characters are relegated to the side. Or you could say it's an example of Heather gaining control over Silent Hill after fusing with MOA, but that could be implied in so many subtle ways by the actual scene itself, and it wasn't. It's like all the material is there for the themes to show but there's a disconnect with their presentation and what they're trying to mean. I just can't look at 3D effects popping out at me in a DBZ fight and go "oh, yes, this must be a metaphor for _____."

The very ending was clever, what with the panning so that the sign changes what it says, and I think it works really well to break the grip of a central plot so that the films can become a series with more legroom to be creative. That final scene says a lot and is done right.

Anyway: Right now I feel that it's far below the first one and a lot more mindless than I would've preferred. I'll come back after another viewing to see what opinions have changed or not.

[alone in the town]

Suki was an important way to demonstrate that other people are entering the town and being victimized and I think it served its purpose.

As no other people are shown entering the town and being victimized at random (everyone else is obviously connected to Heather in some way), nor is this idea ever brought up or hinted at at any (other) point in the movie, I don't see why it is important that this be demonstrated, hence I do not think that is what her purpose is. I think, pragmatically, she was just a body. We had this creepy new monster, it had to have a victim and it wasn't going to be the main protagonist.

[Garmonbozey]

As no other people are shown entering the town and being victimized at random (everyone else is obviously connected to Heather in some way), nor is this idea ever brought up or hinted at at any (other) point in the movie, I don't see why it is important that this be demonstrated, hence I do not think that is what her purpose is. I think, pragmatically, she was just a body. We had this creepy new monster, it had to have a victim and it wasn't going to be the main protagonist.

The bus at the end. Plus, how do we know the people in that room aren't wanderers from all over the place? That's the impression I got. We can't just assume the woman who turned into a mannequin was Suki's friend, or that all the mannequins aren't similarly random people being preyed on. Plus there's the people underneath the grating at the asylum. I think what says it most is Suki explicitly mentioning that she wandered in from the fog. If she were just to be a body, why not have her be a cult member? Bassett had no problem having two of the soldiers get slaughtered by nurses just 'cause.

[alone in the town]

The bus at the end.

Is certainly not random!

Plus, how do we know the people in that room aren't wanderers from all over the place?

How do we know they aren't robot space aliens?

That's the impression I got. We can't just assume the woman who turned into a mannequin was Suki's friend, or that all the mannequins aren't similarly random people being preyed on.

I do not assume this is not true, but there is no evidence that this is a likely thing.

Plus there's the people underneath the grating at the asylum.

Who may very well not be people at all.

I think what says it most is Suki explicitly mentioning that she wandered in from the fog. If she were just to be a body, why not have her be a cult member? Bassett had no problem having two of the soldiers get slaughtered by nurses just 'cause.

If this was really supposed to indicate that random people are being randomly victimized, this is a useless fact to establish, as this fact bears no relevance to the story. It never comes up at any point, and no other people are shown to be randomly trapped in there.

[Droo]

I liked it more than the first one, which I didn't really care for. I found the dialogue to be for the most part better than the first, which made me unintentionally laugh more often than not.

But there was waaaaaay too much exposition. Audiences with no knowledge of SH lore are going to be utterly confused and annoyed. Also, similar to the first movie, there was never any time to linger on the monsters. They pop in for one scene and then they're gone. This movie does the same for its human characters as well. Every character except for Heather and Vincent are introduced and gone so quickly they may as well never have been there.

It's also utterly unscary. The first film wasn't terrifying either, but it had its moments. The alley in the beginning. The nurse hallway.

The music didn't do it for me. They only used a handful of tracks from the games and the rest was generic string sections.

It looked very, very good. The visuals were very strong. Then again, so was the first film.

The plot was so busy explaining things to the audience it failed to really do much of anything itself. What it did bring to the table, it failed to explain.

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Who was Claudia and her group? Wasn't the whole Order killed in the Church in the first one? Why did Claudia turn into Cenobite Coulter when she touched the Seal Of Metatron? If she didn't become Cenobite Coulter until the end, then who cut off Douglas' fingers and killed him? How and why did Leonard get the other half of the seal inside his body? Why did Vincent change his mind about Heather after only knowing her for 45 minutes? He was raised in an alternate reality by religious zealots. He should be far better brainwashed than that. Why was Suki in Foggy Silent Hill? Just driving through she should have been in Real Silent Hill like Gucci and Chris were in the first. Why bother introducing her at all to kill her in mere minutes? What the hell did Heather do with Memory of Alessa? Why is everything okay once Cenobite Coulter is killed?

Plot annoyances aside, the biggest one is this:

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In what world is a Mortal Kombat meets the Alice vs. Nemesis fist fight from RE2 showdown a good idea to end this movie? It was ridiculous watching Cenobite Coulter and Pyramid Head duke it out. It wasn't even a climactic battle. A few mutual sword swipes followed by a generic beheading.

The fanservice extravaganza of cameos and nods to other SH games that came at the very end were neat, but felt insubstantial.

Another movie that makes me embarrassed to publicly declare my love of this series to a public that only knows this franchise through the films. :/