Silent Hill

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2006)

Silent Hill is based on a popular video game and now it has been made into a full length film. The story is about a mother named Rose whose daughter Sharon often walks in her sleep and talks about a place called Silent Hill. When Rose confronts Sharon about it she tells her that she does not remember. Soon Rose finds out that there is a place called Silent Hill and decides to take Sharon there to see if it brings back some memories and to see why she always mentions it while sleep walking. On the way into Silent Hill they have an accident and soon Sharon is missing. Silent Hill is a deserted town with nobody around. Rose looks around the mysterious town for Sharon and discovers many horrors and evil as she goes along. At the end of this film I had mixed feelings for it. Some things I liked about the film was the way it looked with it's cinematography, great visual and special effects and a stylish and creepy look that I just loved. I also liked how the film looked and felt like a nightmare come to life because there were creepy things going on and it didn't always make sense and it felt like the characters were almost in a dream world. I liked the whole aspect of that. Now onto the things I didn't like so much about the film. I thought it started out interesting enough, but as the film went on I found it kind of slow moving and with a running time of over two hours I found the film a bit too long. Near the end of the film I also found it to be a bit too silly and some of the acting was too over the top for me and some of the dialog wasn't very well written either which made the film look awkward near the end. I still liked the look of the film a lot and I liked the concept up to the end, so there were some strong points in this film, but I just didn't thing it tied it too well together at the end and I think the film could have been a bit shorter. I've never played the video game that the film is based on, so I wouldn't be able to say whether fans of the game will like the movie or not, but I'm sure there is an audience for this movie and they will probably like it. I didn't think this was a terrible movie, but rather a flawed movie that could have been a lot better than it was.