Jerry Whorebach wrote:

For all I know the Silent Hill games are great. They don't look great, but then again neither did M.U.L.E. until I played it, and now I wear a toque with the M.U.L.E. sprite knit in (everyone just thinks it's an AT-AT *frowns*). The movies are definitely not great. The first one was Jacob's Ladder for kids, kinda like how the Mortal Kombat movie was Enter the Dragon for kids. The second one didn't seem like a normal movie so much as an incredibly faithful adaptation of some borderline unplayable Japanese adventure game. There are entire sequences that, if they weren't blocked out and transcribed verbatim from PS1-era cutscenes, might as well have been. I'm sure if I were to read even a single review by a Silent Hill fan I'd find out it wasn't nearly faithful ENOUGH to the source material, but fortunately that doesn't seem like something I'll ever have to do.

I don't remember where I was going with this. I think I just wanted to have one single positive appraisal of Silent Hill Revelations 3D somewhere on the internet, and for some reason I thought Caltrops would be a good place to keep it.

I also want to give a shout-out to Mindhunters for being the Deep Blue Sea of FBI profiler movies. Renny Harlin might have no idea how to shoot an action scene, but he understands pacing - that is to say, he has the need for speed - and he's got exactly what it takes to turn a laughably terrible script into a laughably propulsive direct-to-video thriller. He also apparently has LL Cool J on speed dial, which doesn't hurt.