Sometimes, the best kept secret can’t stay quiet for long, and in what Tae-gon Kim‘s Project Silence does is go bark raving mad to deliver a disaster type film that can be blamed because of some crazy mad science done onto canines. They are this film’s villain and are effective killers if you can believe the CGI to get them to perform the needed actions to scare the humans they are stalking.
Not only is Cha Jeong-won, portrayed by Lee Sun-kyun, affected, but so must his daughter survive. They are trapped along with others on The Incheon Grand Bridge, but also; they have to face these dogs guarding both sides! I won’t ruin the reason this structure is “falling apart,” but it makes for an amusing scenario of where can you go? Unlike a video game where you can shoot all those zombies down, this pair and others have no weapons!
Here, whether this father can be a father is the real story. And if his kid will listen, I’ll be surprised! There’s also Golf champion Yura (Park Ju-hyun) who can use her clubs to perhaps send them over the sea, but she better have the muscle strength to do so! Unfortunately, her manager and an elderly couple offer little help. This film doesn’t always deliver in creating the tension, as there’s only so much trapped people can do on a bridge looking like it’ll fall down.
No disaster film can be complete without some deaths by mauling, and while I couldn’t help but be reminded by John Carpenter’s The Fog (since half the film is spent on this construct during bad weather), I wondered if the effect is intentional? Ultimately, the set-up works.
Interest in watching this film all the way through depends on Jo Park (Ju Ji-hoon) more than anyone else. I didn’t feel all that invested on the various plights going on. But for this nutty gas station attendant who simply wants Jeong-won to pay up, that’s the only part of the film that I liked.
Apparently these canines can are like a Predator, but without the tech, all they got are their natural senses to stalk their prey! Project Silence is very atypical for the genre and while not entirely original, it had small moments to enjoy. Also, when I’m accustomed to hearing barks from the neighbour’s backyard protector in real life, I don’t feel threatened. An affective film should bring that fear of danger from a raving mad dog to the fore. But for those with cynophobia, they’d get more out of this work than I would. Now as for whether soft sounds can soothe the savage beast, all I can say is that what’s done to save the day isn’t all that surprising.
3 Stars out of 5
Project Silence Movie Trailer
