Well I notice a lot of people didn't like it.....

Rating: 7/10 (22 August 2006)

It's no blockbuster sure. It doesn't stick to the game storyline very well either. The acting wasn't any worse than the game voice acting, so I'm not gonna knock credit here either. As for the plot, it's all over the place, yet I can't rightfully say that I'd expect them to use the plot from say, SH1, that would leave all but the most attentive wondering WTF?! I don't ride the fan-boy fence so I'm not A) gonna 10 star it or B) knock stars off for veering from the storyline. I enjoyed the movie, the cinematography was VERY well done as far as recreating some of the more notable camera angles from the game. The monster characters were beautifully rendered to mirror their in game portrayals. Sure the plot was a bit all over the place, but any of you played the game? Those plots went all over like a blind man running a 10km race. My only real complaint is that from VG to big screen if they were going to modify the plot as much as they did, don't use characters we know from one plot in a manner that contains no continuity with the original plot of it's predecessor. I enjoyed the movie, it was a bit long but it held for me the same feeling I got from the games, confusion, tension, dramatic sympathetic appeal, and those damned air raid sirens always got to me. I give it 7 stars; That being said, if this movie was only to be judged in the category of VG -> Bigscreen conversions, it would receive 10/10 simply for the fact that while it did move from the games general plot, the overall enjoyability of the movie for me in comparison to any other VG->BS movie I've seen is exponentially greater. It's not a 10, but far from a 1...