Do not waste your time

Rating: 1/10 (22 April 2006)

I awaited Silent Hill with muted expectations: it was a video game movie, but it had received decent user reviews from this site. Let me spell it out: This might be the least entertaining movie I have ever seen.
The plot is confusing and convoluted, and most people in the audience, from what I could see, were lost in the first half-hour. The performances are barely satisfactory, meaning that they are the highlight of the film. The timing is very slow and methodical: there are no sudden frights, like in a slasher movie. This may work in some films, but it doesn't in Silent Hill.
The setting is remotely creepy, but nothing that hasn't been done before. The special effects are nice, but not worth wading through the rest of the movie. And the ending is, in a word, disappointing. To be honest, the movie worked better as a comedy. There were some parts that were funny, but weren't meant to be funny.
In conclusion, although this is a pretty bad month for movies, Silent Hill stands out as the worst of the worst. Instead, rent a classic film, and remind yourself why you go to the movies in the first place.