Talchul: Project Silence

The concept underneath was fine, and it had potential too, but it did not transition into an effective finish by the climax, and I believe the writing is to be blamed!

Neither the characters nor the conversations they participate in have substantial impacts, primarily because the screenplay wandered cluelessly most of the time, failing to achieve the necessary tone and decorum!

The CGI too had its probelms, now generally I do not mind slight to moderate imperfections in visual effects, especially if the narrative is keeping me engaged, in this case however, frailties became quite apparent, to a point where they start acting as obstacles in the path of my enjoyment.

I know that every survival horror needs to has the dumbest people alive to make it work. They don't use automatic weapon, instead they make imrpovised torches which stop burning after a minute - for example...

S. W. A. T. team were a buch of most lazy, stupid, dumb, morons in history. And pacifist - seriously - they didn't shot, don't use knives, nothing. I am guessing their combat training was conducted by Mahatma Ghandi.

This could be something of value - do you remember the fight with dogs from first Resident Evil movie? Mila was simply amazing, dogs was scary but beatable, everything looks cool and awesome.

But this time we get something so stupid it is painful to watch.

I watched this earlier today and i thought it was REALLY GOOD! Unlike movies like Train To Busan, where i genuinely was invested in/cared about several of the characters, Project Silence's main flaw is that it barely had me caring about most of the characters due to the shallow writing (character-wise).

But as a roller coaster/popcorn, not too heavy, fun action/thriller it's definitely a solid movie. The cinematography/visuals and atmosphere/tension is very good and much to my surprise the CGI fx for the dogs was pretty good! Lord knows i HATE bad CGI monsters/creatures in movies and in this movie they did a good job!

Obviously a riff on the dog eat dog quote ... so no pun intended. This is a "catastrophe movie" (if you remember or have seen some of them way back in the day, mostly in the 70s and maybe 80s, though coming back from time to time, San Andreas one of the "newer" ones) ... packed with some bite ... I mean dogs, to spice things up ... not in a eating them ... I won't even go there with a joke ... especially because the dogs are the ones attacking.

The story is quite paper thin ... but there is one side character ... when he is introduced I didn't really like him ... he is quite sleazy and tries to rip our main character off ... but later he becomes a really fun comical character who almost single-handedly saves the movie.

Characters doing stuff that does not make much sense ... but suspend your disbelief and you'll be good I reckon ... this is about having fun with a ridiculous idea ... nothing more, nothing less.

How much you enjoy the movie will depend on how willingly you believe and accept the CGI dog pack. I was slightly put off by it. And Jodie's dad. And that one girl's dad - the main actor in the film. They were very one note in their characterization. But I was willing to suspend my disbelief for the entirety of the movie running time.

Although $64.40 is the new $2. For all you Savage Steve Holland fans out there.

Anyway. There is lots of tension on the bridge with some fairly minimal backstories that play into nifty plot points. Like the golfer thing. That was a nice callback.

I would watch this again.