A great adaptation of the game with a HORRIBLE ending

Rating: 7/10 (14 June 2007)

I absolutely loved Silent Hill 1, it was an amazing game; it was very well done and quite frankly it made Resident Evil look like crap.
I heard from a lot of people that Silent Hill was a horrible movie and I should waste my time, and I simply agreed and never bothered to see it, since I was greatly disappointed with Resident Evil and Doom's film adaptations.
But one night I was really bored so I headed to Blockbuster and rented this film with one of my free coupons, figuring what the heck? So I get home, pop it in and I am amazed for the first hour and a half, everything was well done and was almost better than the game. Then they started blithering about burning witches and went really in depth on the cult that was in Silent Hill, but even that didn't bother me(even though it was stupid and done really poorly). What ticked me off the most was the ending though.
The movie was built up for 2 HOURS and then you get to end and the scene in the church is cut way too short, plus the film isn't even resolved! They're still stuck in the fog of Silent Hill! They're out of the town and they're back home, but they're still haunted by the fog and no one can see them; NOTHING WAS RESOLVED, POSSIBLY THE BEST SCENE IN THE MOVIE WAS CUT SHORT, AND AN ENTIRE MOVIE WAS RUINED. It was a huge waste of time, I felt like I had just been offered a birthday gift but the giver decided he wanted it and took it away before I could open it; The first hour and a half of this film were done really well, and stayed really true to the game; Fans of the game will LOVE this movie(until the ending), while those that haven't played it probably won't know what the heck is going on ^_^ All in all, this film had great action scenes, the first hour was riveting, and the special effects were all done really well; I would not place it in a priority viewing category, but if you've got nothing better to do then you should definitely check it out.