Faithful but that doesn't mean good

Rating: 3/10 (23 April 2006)

I saw this movie and while I do agree that Silent Hill is the most faithful video game adaption to date I felt it showed the weaknesses of many games and that is character development. The video game itself is creepy and the atmosphere in the movie does give you that unsettling feeling at times but you are not given any reason to care for the characters. Silent Hill is a great game but the lack of character development was always there and unfortunately when you are adapting the movie I wish they could have fixed that problem. Is this the worst video game adaption? Absolutely not. Uwe Boll has House of the Dead and Alone In The Dark and those two take the top two prizes for worst movies based on video games. I will put it up there as one of the better ones but there are not really any great video game movies to date so that really doesn't say too much about the genre. This movie is definitely more of a DVD rental.