it has a good atmosphere and acting, the sfx where not bad either but after that this movie just falls flat in story, characters, and plot.

Rating: 3/10 (18 October 2012)

The beginning is just silly and proves to be a waste time when the entire first two scenes could be summed up in one line of dialog, but screw character development when we can have meowing and silly screaming.
The story follows rose De Silva, and her daughter Sharon who has frequent nightmares about a ghost town called silent hill that was evacuated because of a underground coal fire, for one, rose is a idiot for taking her daughter there mainly because you can die just from breathing the air. and we are introduced to Christian De Silva who is only in this movie because the studio insisted they had a male lead. (even though the first game's protagonist was Male!)
On are way to silent hill we meet a Lady cop named Cybil Bennett who arrest's rose on arrival to silent hill because at a gas station she hears Sharon complain... i am not joking this is the explanation Christophe Gans gives us.
And the second half when rose and Sharon first arrive they see a figure of a little girl forcing them to swerve and cause a car accident and when rose awakens Sharon is gone and rose ventures into this mysterious and dangerous town and surprisingly when rose first enter's silent hill was very entertaining and had me creep-ed out in a atmospheric way, besides the Cybil VS. Rose crap was rather annoying but the rest was fun. then the third act starts...
The third and forth act are stupid boring nonsense gore, which is not creepy or disturbing it is just mindless and uncreative. The second scene of pyramid head was something you would see in tom and Jerry except with blood.
The third act contains rose and Cybil putting aside their differences to work together to find her daughter, this would be considerably good character development but the reasons for arresting rose was vague and confused, and actually put me against Cybil and i wanted her to die for being annoying and when she finally stopped acting like a complete twit i still did not care because she was still not developed and did not do a thing in the entire movie besides fighting off a couple enemies so why care?
The forth act consist's of rose having to battle the evil of this town to get her daughter back, it would sound touching and heart wrenching but it isn't, mainly because rose is an idiot for taking Sharon there in the first place! it is over all a clumsy, boring, unfocused, gigantic plot hole of nightmarish delusions