Silent Hours

Friends of mine watched this and loved it. I watched it on their recommendation just to be polite. I wanted to turn it off after the first sex scene because I felt like this was a B movie using porn actors to flesh it out, no pun intended.

The acting is appalling. The script is laughable. You know that when the lead actor touches blood on a dead body and then wipes it all over the front of his sweater things are only going to get worse... And they did.

As others here have mentioned it is so old fashioned. I mean I hate all these WOKE/PC for the sake of it movies but this is offensive. Utter amateur night dross. And now I have to go away and think of a way of telling me friends what I thought about this turkey without hurting their feelings!

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.

If you have 2 1/2 hours for a who done it flick, I would recommend this movie. It is not a fast pace movie, nor are there any big explosions etc. Keeps you guessing..... you gotta pay attention though. There are a number of hot & heavy sex scenes, I would say its a R rated movie. But it describes it as a TV movie... surely not here in the USA.

I give it a 6-6.5 stars.

James Weber Brown is an ex naval officer with issues, and now a Private Eye with a penchant for a rough sex. When various women he has bedded turn up murdered and mutilated, the police suspect him and he has to find the real killer.

Once a 3 part TV series and it shows with the first third really badly constructed and with a poor script. It does settle into relative adequacy towards the end if you can believe the fast and furious twists and turns, but overall pretty lame stuff exacerbated by a daft, unbelievable central performance by Weber Brown playing a completely unsympathetic, wooden character who women seem to adore despite the fact he is a total zombie. One or two nuggets, but mostly dire.

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.