Terrible, terrible movie.

Rating: 4/10 (21 April 2006)

I'm not one to think that a video game movie will be very great, but the advertisements for the Silent Hill movie made it look like it could be halfway cool. Plus, it's got Sean Bean, so it can't be all bad, right? Alas, not only is it not very good, but it's downright awful. The music was pretty good and I thought they did a good job of setting mood with it. Also, the cinematography was pretty sweet for the first half to two-thirds of the movie. I really like a lot of the angles used. It's a great LOOKING movie. Other than those two things the movie was complete and utter garbage. About halfway through I decided the movie wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't awful. It was just an average movie. The final act of the movie was absolutely retarded. Plot threads were left hanging, characters and devices left unexplained, and it was just gratuitous and stupid gore. To top it all off, it wasn't even remotely scary. When it comes to horror movies I am probably the biggest wimp there is. I would go into more detail about some of the stuff that has kept me up at night, but I am actually ashamed. This movie didn't scare me in the least. Anytime something that I assume was supposed to be frighting happened, I found myself bored.
Don't make the mistake that I made. Avoid this movie at all cost.