Overrated, but still watchable

Rating: 6/10 (16 April 2020)

Taking a trip together, a woman and her daughter trying to see if they can help cure her illness are involved in an accident outside the town of Silent Hill, and once she finds a small group of survivors inside the town helps fight off the creatures lurking in the shadows to save her daughter.
This here does have some great parts to it. One of the better features here is that the film is filled with some completely outlandish and quite unearthly creatures. One character is attacked by a horde of gray-skinned mutant children with glowing orange wounds on the skin. Two more are approached by a bizarre, gray character with no face or arms and moves as though its bones are misshapen and spew acidic ash when wounded, while another creation crawls on its stomach with its feet bound up in an arch over its back alongside the giant metal-gate headed being and the mutated nurses to make for a genuinely creepy assortment of creatures living in the town. Also rather enjoyable here is the highly-energetic action scenes throughout here. There are plenty of quite jolting scenes in here, the highlight is a marvelously creepy scene where one character must try and squeeze their way through a corridor full of mutant nurses. When she realizes they're drawn to and seemingly activated by her flashlight, she turns it off and they mostly go motionless. She then slowly and cautiously must walk through them in the hallway, with most frozen and holding scalpels, but some slightly leaning in as if trying to sniff her. After one becomes agitated and twitches, it then lashes out, missing her but slicing the throat of another and This causes all of them to be lash out and strike each other, with her barely avoiding being cut. Another scene with a creature trapping two in a small room with a super-long blade, followed by a large swarm of flesh-eating beetles. There's plenty of big attack scenes in here to provide some thrills and plenty of really quite nasty and sadistic gore scenes which are all quite impressively rendered and look great. This here did have some good points although there were many problems with the film. One of the problems is that this might be confusing to people who aren't familiar with the game. Most things are left unexplained and there were times that any sort of explanation would've been better than what was offered. Not saying anything about what is going on with practically anything in the town at all, which is a complete mystery and there's no back-story given for anything or anyone. The incredibly confusing ending is one of it's biggest flaws, as it's so completely confusing and hard-to-understand that its inclusion leads no answers. Also quite damaging is the film's over-extended running time. This is mostly conveyed with the husband's useless, bloated scenes that add nothing to the movie but information which is given to us in the journey anyway. This is a movie that could benefit greatly by having about twenty or thirty minutes cut out of it, and it wouldn't be too surprising if that would've made the film any different. They have no effect on the outcome of the happening at all, and it's inclusion, along with the different plot-holes and confusion, really lower this one highly.
Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and children in danger.