didn't care for it at all

Rating: 1/10 (23 February 2008)

First off I have not played any of the computer games, only seen minor sections of one or two, so I went into this film with a completely open mind hoping to see a good thriller/horror.
I would like to think I gave Silent Hill a fair chance, as in I endured it to the very end but I found it to be one of the most boring, nonsensical and above all NOT scary films I have ever seen. I was at least expecting to jump once during this film as I had head from friends that the games were quite atmospheric and gave them a couple of good scares back in the day, sadly not so with the cinematic take on the vaguely related tale.
The special effects were adequate, as you would expect from any film of recent times but the creatures and scenarios created with them failed to impress me in the slightest.
There were also several things throughout the film that just had me thinking the characters were beyond moronic. An example that springs to mind is when pyramid head has two protagonists trapped in a closet. He manages to locate them, and pierce a solid metal door with a sword too big to swing or thrust in any hallway, and is swiftly subdued by a small metal pipe of some kind between the handles of the door. This had me scratching my head thinking A) "If he can lift that sword he could easily batter down that door" and B) "Why the hell doesn't he put that blade to good use and cut the bloody metal pipe!" But by far and away, above everything else the thing I hated about this move was the ending. What the hell was that?! I came away thinking well are they dead? are they in a different dimension? or just the wrong bloody house (which wouldn't have surprised me). I thought it must have just been me being dense, or that I had missed some kind of key "plot twist" but no apparently many of the people I have since spoken to had the same feelings of confusion and mild disgust at the finale of this pathetic story.
I believe this movie can be best summed up by the exclamations of one chav at the back of my screening, when at one point when the screen just goes completely white, he yelled "WHAT THE F***!!!". I would not recommend this film to anyone or watch it again if you paid me. A definite must-miss