“The Silencing” (** out of four) was a lumbering character study/melodrama about a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) now living in isolation in the wilderness who becomes involved in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a mysterious killer who may have murdered his daughter as the determined local sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) tries to investigate. Film has mood, atmosphere, vivid cinematography by Manuel Dacosse, and a rich Muzak score by Brooke and Will Blair but never develops much momentum and thus fails to make much impact. Similar story and terrain was covered more effectively in 2013’s “Killing Season.”