Interesting looking but, like so many VG-to-Movie films, ultimately empty and non-sensical.

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2006)

Like so many video games turned into films, "Silent Hill" is ultimately all about form over substance. There is a great deal of confusion surrounding the paper thin plot, and maybe only those who have played the game (I have not) can understand what exactly is going on. One must assume than Rose is trapped in some sort of Hellish dimension that changes back-and-forth from a deserted town that suffered a not-so-natural disaster (in this case, uncontrollable fires from coal mines underneath the titular town, Silent Hill, West Virginia) to an Hell-on-Earth world populated by mutants and monsters of unexplained origin or purpose.
The movie is rather interestingly rendered and the photography and FX are used to good advantage. However, no matter how well-dressed, one is, in the end, left scratching one's head, completely unsure of what precisely is going on and why one should care.