To put it bluntly, “Silent Murders” is a pretty stereotypical genre picture that doesn’t offer anything outlandishly new in the industry. Director and writer Dubey’s take on the films’ story works in their favor as well. As Mia is pursuing a thread that lead to one of the incidents related to her brother’s death in another city and ends up meeting the characters who were responsible for his demise, this particular setup feels tedious but leaves room for the imagination to run wild. This happens very naturally, and the film has a multi-national cast as she is also a foreigner to the country, which works greatly for the film as her struggle to familiarize with the locals portrays the film’s story seamlessly. This is a very blunt formula a somewhat innocent girl is scrabbling and scratching her way up the city’s criminal hierarchy and slowly comes to terms with the fact that these people can be very dangerous and ruthless.
For “Silent Murders,” which is a novel that fits under the crime and suspense genre, the so called murder mystery aspect is gorgeous. The condition of threated along with the details surrounding the case places the duo in the right lane as they investigate looking into the individuals that her brother interacted with through the timeframe and identifying the suspects. Towards the conclusion of the movie, some amusing plot twists and the most funny scenes begin to appear. In the second part of the film, where building crimes are interspersed with a very simple logic, everything is explained. All of this is made perfectly clear at the end, including the chain of events surrounding the protagonists and the confabulations to oppose them, culminating in a rather stunning conclusion.
But aside from this “Silent Murders” isn’t all that gripping. What’s a bit of a letdown is there is some squalid pacing that is consistent with most out there fictions. Most of the content is revolved around Mia’s incessant whining to Sam as she tries to understand whether it was her brother who sold the illegal substances or whether it was some low life member of an underworld that sold to him. This scenario gets really tiresome because in most cases, the video turns out to be a plumbing of similar episodes, in which Mia and Sam run into several other characters, both unsavory and otherwise, who had been let into the underground ring. Consequently, you just end up looking at flashbacks or replays of pretty much the same events: how someone meets Mia’s brother, pretty much everyone’s idle life with a bunch of people just sitting and listening to the ‘tales’. This setup is good, to begin with but gets annoying later on.
In addition, the running time is approximate to 1 hour only, such makes the movie feel rushed, excluding important parts of the movie. The interlude of the ABC interrogation illustrates, alongside the context of the film up until this point, an intricate web of intricacies that amalgamate together to either serve as the logical reason or justification behind the plots. The movie bears immense potential and the story seems to be rich with ideas but sadly, the short duration makes it impossible to fully encompass these ideas, almost as if a rant of ideas was present at the back of the producers head and was forcibly compressed into a limited amount of time hence it feels as if the Mia and Sam conspiracy was a quick interview session that made the audience comprehend it rather quickly, instantly painting a picture of the entire story in the minds of the audience. Sadly, these factors deeply hamper and diminish the total rating of the feature.
Even though the negatives carry slightly more weight than the advantages, it would be appropriate to say that Silent Murders has its fair share of pros and cons. However do provide this a shot, as long as you enjoyed any of the work put out by the creative team, as well as don’t really find the aforementioned flaws to be of much disturbance.
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