Pretty dull, pretty dull indeed.

Rating: 4/10 (22 April 2006)

The Silent Hill games are all equally phenomenal on their own levels with 2 standing out for brilliance of story and 3/4 standing out for strong visuals. Of course, nobody can forget how disturbing the first one was...and how unexpected it was from a PSone video game. In fact, I'll go as far as to say, to find the best horror stories of the past decade, one would have to turn to the Silent HIll series. Let's face it, horror just isn't getting better with age.
So here we are, it's 2006 and hurray, Silent Hill the movie is here! Oh wait...? What's this you say? Anyone looking for a plot even half as coherent as the first game will be sorely disappointed? Did I hear correctly? All the practical effects look like CGI while all the CGI effects look like, well, worse CGI? Damn!
Well, I guess I can't be too hard on the plot. I mean, it is explained twice (consecutively) by a poor acting little girl. Fans who care about character, story, and visuals will not enjoy the story here. The visuals are so-so, usually it's either too bright or too dark. The practical effects are so digitally enhanced that they might as well have been CG in the first place...you know...to save more money for what they spent on Sean Bean's character. The story is about as well put together as this review, and you will not understand what everything means unless you have completed the first two games. Sadly, what they mean in the games has no real bearing on the film whatsoever. So, with that said, I'm off to bed. Go see a better movie. If you had high hopes (like me), thinking this might be the first good video game adaptation, I'm sorry for your loss. Clearly these genres were not meant to be.
And for all you message board junkies, that was my reasoning for disliking the movie. So stop throwing that ridiculous troll word around. It makes you look about as intelligent as the writer of this wonderful film. (sarcasm anyone?)