Another video-game adaptation movie falls flat.

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2006)

I have been playing the Silent Hill games since their inception and I must say that this movie could have been much better.
The people who made this thing tried a sort of kitchen sink approach to adapting the game to the screen. They threw in elements of both Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2... to little effect.
What they forgot to do was weave a cohesive plot or story out of the material from the game series. So what we end up with is a series of disturbing visuals which are poorly connected. Yes the CGI looks cool but for me that doesn't make a good movie and about 1/2 way into this mess I found myself looking at my watch wondering when it would be over (so I might be able to enjoy silent hill on my PS2).
So if you want to see a series of disturbing visuals (rendered in CGI) which are poorly connected then by all means be my guest. Just make sure to bring along a good book.