“Silence” (*1/2 out of four) was an impossibly dull, overlong historical drama of two Catholic missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan to find their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) at a time when Catholicism was outlawed and their presence forbidden and unwanted. Or something like that. One of director Martin Scorcese’s most personal film projects about the trials and tribulations of the beginnings of Catholicism- and also one of his worst. Film is so self-important and solemn that it winds up a monumental bore. And it goes on forever at nearly three hours! Of interest solely to Scorcese completists who might want to look at this as a companion piece to 1987’s “The Last Temptation Of Christ.”