Good movie, but not for everyone

Rating: 7/10 (21 April 2006)

I saw this movie the first possible chance I could, and I enjoyed it. I would not suggest it to anyone, though. The acting is a little bad here and there; the story can be ambiguous (until the slightly tacky part where all is explained); and the gore is probably enough to send some people packing (I saw several people leave during the film, but they could have been surfing).
I gave it a 6.5 because I was torn between the pleasure I got from seeing one of my favorite games come to the big screen as a movie, and the slight disappointment I felt with its distance from the average viewer and its patchy story telling.
Overall, it was a good movie for a fan of the game or horror movies, but an OK movie from the perspective of the average Joe, a view I had a hard time dropping.