Silent Night Movie Review

Silent Night

                                       

Silent Night is a horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is a loose remake of the 1984 film Silent Night, Deadly Night. It is also also loosely based on the real events of 'Covina Massacre'. Silent Night is written by Jayson Rothwell and directed by Steven C. Miller. The main characters of the film Silent Night are played by Malcolm McDowell, Jaime King, Donal Logue, Rick Skene, Ellen Wong, Andrew Cecon and John B. Lowe.

Silent Night is about a man who disguises as Santa Clause at a Christmas Eve and kills the 'sinners' of a small town. The sheriff of that town and the deputies try to stop that man.

Jaime King in a scene of Silent Night

Plot:

Silent Night starts with the sequence where a man wearing the dress of Santa Clause wears a mask. He then kills a man who is tied to a chair.

Next, on the morning of the Christmas, the deputy sheriff Aubrey gets up from her bed by the call of the sheriff. The sheriff asks her to join the duty, as they are low on manpower. Aubrey tries to avoid it, as she has lost someone close recently and it is the first Christmas after that, so it is a special day for her. But after the sheriff's pressure, she agrees to come to her office.

The mysterious Santa Clause next kills a little girl who behaves very badly with her mother. After reaching to her office, Aubrey hears that another deputy is missing, and the rumor is, he has ran away taking another man's wife with him.

Aubrey hears a report about a man making the children cry and she goes to investigate it. She then finds a man who is spreading depressing messages among kids about Christmas. She warns that man. Following another report, she goes to house and finds the first victim of the killer, dead. It is the deputy sheriff who was missing. She also finds the body of his girlfriend in that house. Being inexperienced, Aubrey cannot handle the situation properly. Then the sheriff reaches there. He tells Aubrey that they are on their own in this case, they have no other help in this vacation.

The killer then kills two ladies and a man who are involved in making soft porn. In the police station, the sheriff and the deputies try to find a suspect and to stop the killer. They are desperate for some clues. Meanwhile, the killer kills the perverted father of the local church. Aubrey finds a suspect who somehow matches with the killer's profile, but before she can arrest him, he runs away. From that man, Aubrey learns the story of a man who killed his wife (who was cheating on him) and he is now killing people on every Christmas Eve on a different town.

Aubrey has some arguments with the sheriff about the identity of the killer. Next, while the sheriff is informing the mayor about the killings, the killer kills the mayor. Then the killer kills the mayor's daughter and her boyfriend.

Aubrey finds her suspect again, but this time she kills him. Then she finds a common sign given by the killer to his victims. Following the sign, she finds her father dead in her home. The sheriff also has that sign, and to kill him, the killer Santa Clause attacks the police station.

My reviews about the movie Silent Night:

Silent Night seemed like just an average horror movie.

The plot was good, but nothing special. It was something that we have seen in a lot of horror movies. The ending and the identity of the killer in Silent Night was something a little different from regular horror thrillers, but still no big surprise. The direction and screenplay was good.

There was a little mismatch in the plot of Silent Night. That is, how the killer managed to carry all those weapons with him all those times, and how he could know the 'sins' of all his victims didn't seem realistic.

The acting of the main characters were also good. The make ups and the dialogues were good too, but nothing extraordinary. Most of the killing scenes of Silent Night looked realistic. The music, the lighting and the camera works also looked good.

Silent Night has used several dark humors and they were also not bad.

There was some nude scenes and a lot of gore scenes in the movie Silent Night, so in no way you should watch this one with kids. Moreover, this film can give a wrong message to children about Christmas.

So, finally, I enjoyed watching Silent Night, but not much. Watching it will not give you any extra good experience than other regular horror movies. I'll recommend this movie to you only if you are a big fan of horror movies with a lot of gore scenes. Otherwise, skipping Silent Night will not be a big miss.

Ending Explanation of Silent Night:

This part contains spoiler, so I've written it in white font. If you have watched Silent Night and curious about the ending, select the below part by dragging you mouse to read the ending explanation.

Remember the story Aubrey heard from her suspect whom she killed later on? On one Christmas Eve, a man killed his wife with a flamethrower who was cheating on him. At the end of Silent Night, we see the cops arrived at that scene and killed that man. One of those cops' son was sitting in a car nearby and his father was killed by fire after shooting that man. Seeing his father killed this way, the son becomes maniac and he is the killer in Santa Clause's disguise.

Also, at the end of Silent Night, we see the killer's musk was burning on the police station's floor without anyone around it, and then we saw a man with burnt face, that indicates that the killer is alive and he will kill more people in future.

So, how did you like Silent Night? Share with us in comments.

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300: Rise of an Empire Movie Review

300: Rise of an Empire

                                                  

300: Rise of an Empire is an action drama fantasy movie released in March, 2014. As anyone can guess, this is the sequel of the epic film ‘300’. It is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel Xerxes. 300: Rise of an Empire is written by Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Frank Miller and directed by Noam Murro. The major characters of this film are played by Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, David Wenham, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro, Jack O'Connell and Andrew Tiernan.

300: Rise of an Empire tells the story which happened before, during and after the story of its prequel 300 and the Greeks' attempts to stop the Persians from taking their homeland. 

 

Eva Green and Sullivan Stapleton in a scene of 300: Rise of an Empire

Plot:

The plot of 300: Rise of an Empire starts 10 years before the battle happened in 300. The Persians came to conquer Greece, but they got defeated by the superior tactics of Greek general Themistocles. In that battle, Themistocles kills the Persian king, who was the father of the next king, Xerxes. Xerxes comes back to his land and with the help of his father’s naval commander, Artemisia, gains his power and emerged as the ‘God King’. Artemisia was a cruel but extraordinary intelligent warrior and general of the navy, who had a shady past and was seeking her revenge on the Greeks.

10 years later, Xerxes is now again invading Greece. Themistocles manages to convince all the states of Greece to provide him ships, with which, he will stop the Persian army at the sea. He then goes to seek help from Sparta, where he learns that the Spartan king Leonidas is consulting the oracles. He comes back to his town. With the help of his friend who also works as a spy and infiltrates the Persian troops, Themistocles learns the nature of Artemisia.

Themistocles, with his troops and ships, comes face to face with Artemisia’s troops in the sea. For the first two attacks, Themistocles successfully stops the Persians from advancing and with his brilliant tactics, make the Persians retreat. The Persian army loses a good number of soldiers, where Themistocles loses only a few men.

Impressed with Themistocles’s intelligence, Artemisia invites him to her ship. She uses sex to convince him to join her team as her second-in-command. Themistocles refuses and he is sent back to the land without any harm. But he knows that Artemisia has become mad and next day they are going to face a very tough battle.

He was not wrong. On the next day, Artemisia uses her brute force and maximum of her powers to destroy the Greek ships. Both side faces heavy losses and believing that Themistocles has died, Artemisia retreats with her troops, where Themistocles is luckily saved.

On the land, Xerxes has already killed king Leonidas and has started to destroy Greek cities. Themistocles visits mourning queen Gorgo (king Leonidas’s wife) of Sparta and again asks for her assistance, where she again refuses. Before leaving, Themistocles hands her king Leonidas’s sword and asks her to avenge him.

Meanwhile, Artemisia learns that Themistocles is still alive and is again preparing for a battle. She starts for that battle without her king Xerxes’s consent. They have a little argument between them.

Themistocles’s soldiers are depressed by their loss and the refusal of their call of assistance by the Spartans. But as a perfect leader, Themistocles inspires them to fight and take their revenge. He also makes some special arrangement for himself in his ship to use on the battle. So, with his troops, he comes face to face again with Artemisia.

Sullivan Stapleton in 300: Rise of an Empire 

My review about the movie 300: Rise of an Empire:

I liked this movie, but not as much as its prequel, 300. If you are a big fan of 300, this one may even disappoint you.

The plot of 300: Rise of an Empire was good. But if you are interested to learn about what happened after 300 ends, here is the first disappointment. This one also ends without giving an exact result of the war between the Persians and the Greeks. Just like its prequel, 300: Rise of an Empire ends within the war without telling us the fate about the Greeks.

The cinematography of 300: Rise of an Empire was also good, but not as good as 300. The use of fantasy was also less, we didn’t see much of the gigantic creatures or magic.

The acting of all the characters were good. Specially, Eva Green’s performance was outstanding. Her character was also so powerful and important that several times, it felt like she was the leading character of 300: Rise of an Empire. But none other characters were as charming as the characters of 300. Almost none of the charms of the character of king Leonidas were here at the character of the hero Themistocles. His character was also not as strong as that of king Leonidas of 300. Even king Xerxes’s and queen Gorgo’s character in 300: Rise of an Empire did not seem as powerful as we saw in the prequel.

But what I missed most in 300: Rise of an Empire was the epic dialogues from 300. Although the dialogues were good, but they were nowhere near the epicness of the dialogues of 300. I really missed something like “Tonight we dine in hell”, “Madness? This is Sparta!”, “Give them nothing, but take from them everything”.

The use of special effects also seemed inferior in 300: Rise of an Empire than its sequel. Most of the special effects were limited to showing bloods in slow motion.

There are a few nude scenes in 300: Rise of an Empire. For those and other gore scenes, this is not a movie you can watch with kids.

I think if the director thought that the success of the movie 300 came only for its plot, acting and cinematography, but not for its characters and dialogues, then he has made a mistake. I loved the whole movie 300 for its art and everything from the beginning to the end seemed very artistic to me including the fighting, the gore scenes, the nude scenes and so on. But the sequel 300: Rise of an Empire lacked severely in the art.

But don't get me wrong, 300: Rise of an Empire is still a good movie, but it falls behind if you compare it with its prequel. If you are fan of 300, then you must watch 300: Rise of an Empire. Even if you feel a little disappointed, but you will not feel you time wasted by watching it.

Don't forget to visit the wikipedia link of 300: Rise of an Empire. You will find a lot of interesting historical facts about those wars by browsing the links given in the article.

So, how was your experience about 300: Rise of an Empire? Share with us in the comments.

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I, Frankenstein Movie Review

I, Frankenstein 

                                                                   

I, Frankenstein is a fantasy action thriller movie released in 2014. This movie is written by Stuart Beattie and Kevin Grevioux and directed by Stuart Beattie. The character Frankenstein is the same as the monster created by British author Mary Shelley in her famous novel 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'. The major characters of the movie I, Frankenstein are played by Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto and Jai Courtney.

I, Frankenstein tells the story of the monster Frankenstein, who runs away and then comes back to the society in the modern world. He then gets caught between the fight of the demons and the angels. 

A scene from the movie I, Frankenstein 

Plot:

I, Frankenstein starts from the almost the same place where the novel Frankenstein ends. The difference is, here Victor Frankenstein heads to the arctic regions with his monster, where he dies. The monster comes back carrying Victor's dead body to the civilization. There he buries the body and just after that, some demons attack him. He is saved by some gargoyles. The gargoyles bring him back to their home. Here the queen of the gargoyles names him 'Adam' and tells him about their purpose in the earth.

She also tells him about demons and about their fight with them. They ask Adam to stay and fight with them, but Adam refuses. Adam takes some weapons and runs away from civilization. He stays alone for two centuries, but all these times the demons are trying to capture him. So to get rid of them, he finally comes back to civilization to hunt the demons himself.

He goes to a nightclub and there he kills some demons. Then the gargoyles again bring him to their home. In the meantime, we see the demon leader disguised as a human, who has appointed two scientists to bring life back to the deaths, the experiments which was done by Victor Frankenstein. Victor's journal (which is with Adam now) or Adam is very crucial for his experiments, to study and to come to a positive result.

The demon leader learns that Adam is now at the gargoyles' place, so he sends an army to catch him. The demons have a big fight with the gargoyles, which kills some on the most important gargoyle soldiers and also a lot of demons. The demons capture gargoyle queen and take her as a hostage. From a demon, Adam learns that she will be released if Adam or Victor's journal is given to the demons.

Adam frees the gargoyle queen in exchange of the journal. He then follows a demon and goes to their headquarter. There he sees thousands of dead bodies are kept by the demons. Then he meets the demon leader, who tells Adam his masterplan, which is to bring life (actually, demon spirit) to all these dead bodies and make an army, with which, he will rule the earth. Adam then retrives the journal and leaves that place.

The demons leader sends a demon to capture Adam. Adam takes help from the lady scientist of the demon leader, who trusts Adam after seeing the demon herself. Adam kills that demon and goes into hiding. He also warns the gargoyles about the demon's plan. Seeing the danger of mankind, the gargoyle queen sends her highest gargoyle to kill Adam. But finally Adam kills him and then he destroys the journal.

Adam is now a common enemy of both of the demons and the gargoyles. The demons want to capture and study him where the gargoyles want to kill him for the safety of the mankind. The gargoyles led by their queen chase Adam and he runs to the demons' headquarter, which puts the demons and the gargoyle army face to face.

My review about the movie I, Frankenstein :

I, Frankenstein seemed like just a very average movie.

The plot of I, Frankenstein was interesting but very predictable. It didn't give any exciting ending at all. The direction and the screenplay was very average.

The acting of all the major characters of I, Frankenstein were okay. The dialogues were also very average, neither bad nor nothing special. I think, it would seem better if a little more importance was given to the character of the lady scientist. The make ups in I, Frankenstein were good, specially the make up of Adam. But considering all other characters, the make ups of the demons (in their demon form) should have been better. 

The special effects and the animations of I, Frankenstein were very impressive. Specially the gargoyles looked really good. The lighting and the camera works were also good for most of the parts. 

Some concepts of I, Frankenstein looked really unrealistic, even for a fantasy film. For example, after roaming in the uncivilized regions of the earth for 200 years, how come Adam knew the roads and the exact place where he could get a lead on the demons? How come so much actions could go around causing the crashing of cars and buildings without alerting any human at all?

I, Frankenstein does not contain any nude or gore scene, so you can watch it safely with children.

So, finally, I, Frankenstein didn't seem like an enjoyable movie. You can enjoy this movie for the special effects or some of the action scenes, but not the plot or anything else. Although it has an average IMDB rating of 5.4 (while I'm writing this), but I think that is overrated. I will not recommend to watch I, Frankenstein to anyone. But if you have enough time to kill, watching I, Frankenstein won't waste your time.

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Wikipedia Link: I, Frankenstein Wiki

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