Silent Hill

Rating: 3/10 (21 April 2006)

Being the avid gamer that I am, but also a movie buff, seeing this movie made me terribly upset with the movie making industry.
This is not a good movie. Not even remotely.
The game, is fantastic, superb even. I own and have beaten all 4 silent hills, and was extremely ecstatic about this release.
The fact they changed the main character to a woman, not because shes a woman, but the fact that, it was just done terribly wrong, makes me sad. HUGH events that were the entire reason why the game was happening, why harry ended up in Silent Hill, were all lost to the script of this mediocre movie. The characters are stupid, they don't look anything like they did from the game, and just don't act the exact same way. Example, Cybil Bennet being extremely rude and aggressive to Rose. Wheres the Cybil you could choose to fight or save, because she helped you out SO much during the course of the original Silent Hill? Gone, thats what. Stripped down to a (of course) big breasted bimbo, with a large gun and a sharp tongue. So, to say that only the hardcore gamers will enjoy this, is to say, you will enjoy the characters having the name, not the personality or the flavor of the games characters. And as for the monsters, NONE of those monsters came from the original Silent Hill. Pyramid Head Man, and the spewing numb bodies cam from Silent Hill 3, not Silent Hill 1. They even changed the name of Cherryl, to Sharon, for absolutely no reason or significance to anything the story has to offer. Nothing about witch craft was present in game, yet in the movie. Just extremely cheesy, like every other video game movie. The fans get screwed because it has nothing to do with the game. Non-fans get screwed because they don't know any of the significance of anything going on, the places, the characters, or events. Everything is sloppy, wrong, and just plain dumb. I laughed more then I was was scared. Stupid actors, stupid story, stupid "reason why the towns "huanted"", STUPID MOVIE.
The movie sound like it was made form taking hearsay from a dyslexic 12 year old who played the original for an hour.
And thats a crying shame.