A poor, dull, uninspired film

Rating: 2/10 (26 June 2006)

"Silent Hill" is just another entry in the video game to movie craze that has been really sweeping our nation in the last 12 years. Directed by Christophe Gans, the guy that brought us the 2001 film "Brotherhood of the Wolf," "Silent Hill" tells the story of one woman's journey to find her little girl in the strange and eerie town of Silent Hill.
What really makes this film terrible was the lack of suspense it created, IMO. This has to be the first horror movie ever that I felt never built up to the tension nor even created scenes that would make the audience jump. One thing I will say is that the set direction is very good in this film because it truly looks like a realistically deserted ghost town. The main parts that made the movie lack was it'a less than average acting and it's less than sub par script.
Maybe the reason why I didn't like the film was because I had never played the video game. All in all "Silent Hill" was another attempt at cashing in on the video game craze that was started with "Super Mario Brothers" some 13 or 14 years ago.