Silent Hours
- TV Movie
- 2021
- 2h 36m
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5.2/10
1.7K
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Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are b... Read allPrivate detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
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....who hasn't done it. The film keeps you guessing despite the overlong 2 hrs 35 minutes.... Lots of sex scenes and lots of mutilated dead bodies....
For a porn film, this has a relatively coherent storyline. A supposedly suave private detective possesses an inexplicable ability to cause women to become instantly 'in heat' if he so much as looks at them. Are we to believe he's as intriguing, captivating, and dangerous as James Bond? Actually, he looks more like the guy who tiled my bathroom. But in between all the sausage-hiding, there is a decent story. Just be prepared to dig deep for patience to find it.
For those who have reported about the length of this TV movie, this was a TV series of 3 episodes first shown in 2017, turned into one movie.
Actually, I think that it works better as three separate episodes. And, you will not guess the ending.
Actually, I think that it works better as three separate episodes. And, you will not guess the ending.
Without doubt the most atrocious film ever.
The "lead man", whoever he is cannot act his way out of a paper bag, the script is truly dreadful, verging on the illiterate and the direction is just comical in its direness.
Don't know when it was made but it's just so dated it looks like the camera work and sexual attitudes of the 1970s.
It goes from one dreadful sex scene to another, rather in the vein of a second rate porno made by a trainee floor manager.
There's some involvement with the Royal Navy, they must have died of embarrassment by now.
It said the release date was 2015, it must have been hidden for years since being made as everything is so dated, both in looks, history, attitudes.
The really awful thing too is that just when you hope and pray it's finished, it's hasn't, it goes bloody on.
Can only assume the director never worked again,please god!
Just don't waste three hours on this, it's AWFUL!
The "lead man", whoever he is cannot act his way out of a paper bag, the script is truly dreadful, verging on the illiterate and the direction is just comical in its direness.
Don't know when it was made but it's just so dated it looks like the camera work and sexual attitudes of the 1970s.
It goes from one dreadful sex scene to another, rather in the vein of a second rate porno made by a trainee floor manager.
There's some involvement with the Royal Navy, they must have died of embarrassment by now.
It said the release date was 2015, it must have been hidden for years since being made as everything is so dated, both in looks, history, attitudes.
The really awful thing too is that just when you hope and pray it's finished, it's hasn't, it goes bloody on.
Can only assume the director never worked again,please god!
Just don't waste three hours on this, it's AWFUL!
As soon as I reached near the middle of the movie, I wondered why is the action so de-calibrated; it was as if the scriptwriter(s) wrote a script as a contest of "making one twist over another" or was it really a script intended for a mini series. I had to log in to IMDB to justify my second guess.
Silent Hours is a TV mini series -it's PRIMARILY a TV series. For obvious reasons the production team decided to chop it out and make it a 2hr 35mins long film. As it happens with the 99% of similar cases, the outcome was bizarre enough. Took very long for each chapter to evolve, leaving a "hook" in the end which was not followed, until quite later on down the line. All these sex scenes, over and over; this is an exact trace of editing a much longer duration than the one the audience sees. All this constant undelivered suspense which ultimately in some scenes was not concluded or at least be unhooked properly. Last but not least, the edited dialogues in such cases only contribute to confusion in some critical points. I had to roll back 4 or 5 times, to catch up.
E.g. "Alexander" 's theatrical cut was awful, but the director's cut was a movie that made sense. "Das Boot" theatrical cut is poorer compared to the 3,5hr director's cut (the original cut of the film), which is excellent. And so on and so forth.
I found actors good enough for the vibes and atmosphere of the movie - no problem with that. Production was fine too. But I cannot judge anything else on this movie, as I feel I am missing a significant part of the original final outcome.
Would suggest to see the mini series first, then go watch the movie.
Silent Hours is a TV mini series -it's PRIMARILY a TV series. For obvious reasons the production team decided to chop it out and make it a 2hr 35mins long film. As it happens with the 99% of similar cases, the outcome was bizarre enough. Took very long for each chapter to evolve, leaving a "hook" in the end which was not followed, until quite later on down the line. All these sex scenes, over and over; this is an exact trace of editing a much longer duration than the one the audience sees. All this constant undelivered suspense which ultimately in some scenes was not concluded or at least be unhooked properly. Last but not least, the edited dialogues in such cases only contribute to confusion in some critical points. I had to roll back 4 or 5 times, to catch up.
E.g. "Alexander" 's theatrical cut was awful, but the director's cut was a movie that made sense. "Das Boot" theatrical cut is poorer compared to the 3,5hr director's cut (the original cut of the film), which is excellent. And so on and so forth.
I found actors good enough for the vibes and atmosphere of the movie - no problem with that. Production was fine too. But I cannot judge anything else on this movie, as I feel I am missing a significant part of the original final outcome.
Would suggest to see the mini series first, then go watch the movie.
Did you know
- TriviaThe aircraft carrier featured is HMS Illustrious.
- GoofsAfter having sex with the landlady, Duval finds her in the bathtub brutally murdered. He collects the used bed sheets and methodically wipes clean all his fingerprints. Then he takes the used condom throwing it in the toilet seat, closes the lid and flushes once. Anyone who has ever tried this, knows a used condom never flushes on first try having an air bubble inside.
- ConnectionsEdited from Silent Hours (2017)
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