Nice effects, shame about the plot

Rating: 1/10 (22 April 2006)

Some very scary creatures, but full of inconsistencies and no coherent plot. It was so bad I had to buy dinner for the friend I'd convinced to come with me.
And Sean bean's accent got lost somewhere mid-Atlantic at a number of points in the movie... Alice Krieg was much scarier as the Borg Queen than as the personification of evil in Silent Hill.
The pop-video end title sequence felt like it had been tacked on to the end of the film. One thing that really annoyed me was an almost inaudible high frequency whine through large portions of the film. Call me cynical, but I'm guessing that a clever sound engineer thought it might subliminally raise the scare factor - but it takes more than competent special effects. I haven't been so disappointed since I saw Blade Trinity...