good horror , but thats not silent hill

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2006)

first of all if you look objectively on this movie its one of the better horror movies ... but keeping in mind that many scenes , music , atmosphere are completely copied from the games but the whole story and sense of the game is so different and messed up , makes the movie really bad .
silent hill is something like the step before death to find the characters OWN truth . of course there are different opinions about that , but at least the town was something surreal . what do we got here ... one big lie , all fates and the history of town are bound together . the town becomes very real . there is also the fact that , a big part of the history of silent hill is told in the "real" world . those changes between real and ghost(?) world make you loose the feeling being trapped in the other world .
the open beginning and ending of silent hill parts ... where is it in the movie ? nothing , only a unsuccessful attempt to do so .
there are also small mistakes that are destroying the atmosphere . for example when the monsters start to act very human-like ; grabbing things in a really controlled way or when the dark ( bad ?) is coming . it was handled a lot better in the games .
apart from this mistakes the atmosphere is the best thing in the movie ( very game like ), but the end is really messed up. real silent hill fans should dislike this movie i think ...