Everything that I expected.

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2006)

Now, I had been following the creation of the movie from the beginning. Gans made it clear that he was making the movie for the mere reason that he adored the game series. He also was working with Konami, Team Silent, and Akira Yamaoka and they all put the movie together. Also, Gans, from the start, made it clear that the movie will be an adaptation of the game series, not an exact replica of the game, which is highly reasonable and to be honest the right choice, since the movie would have ended up being a 9 hour gameplay, which I had already went through myself, I wouldn't need to watch someone else play it. Gans also mentioned that the movie will be made for the fans of the game series, which should explain most of the negative feedback from critics. Now, the movie got very mixed reviews and over 90% of the negative feedbacks being from critics. The critics argue about the same things, either the ending was confusing, the story was not explained enough thus being vague, the story was explained too much, or they seemed to ignore everything else about the movie and seemed to be so bothered with the 'acting' in the movie that they gave the movie a horrid bad review. Overall, the movie was very true to the game and is a very well done and successful movie to be able to make a true fan like me, the true tough critic of the movie, more than adore the movie. As my final words I say these; if you are a Silent Hill fan you will love this movie. If you are a reasonable horror fan, you will enjoy this movie. If you want to just check it out, you will at the least find something unique on the big screen for once. But then again, if you don't know what Silent Hill is, and you aren't even a horror fan, why in the hell would you see this movie?