The best video game adaptation yet.

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2010)

The very first thing you'll notice in this film (if you played the games) is that they absolutely nailed the look of the games, the look of the town was perfectly recreated in the film, sadly the biggest flaw of the movie(in my opinion at least) comes from the movie's reliance on copying everything from the game, while this worked perfectly for the look of the town on the other hand the story, monsters and some characters are pulled right out of the games, the problem with this, is that in the games the town (i have a lot of trouble trying to explain this) "creates" everything for the people that end up there making them face their own sins and errors in the form of characters and monsters(something expertly handled in the recent SH:Shattered Memories)so that the main character will in the end face and overcome them, or have a mental breakdown and kill themselves (and other assortment weird endings depending of your actions in the game). That problem showed clearly what the producers were aiming for ($$$), not that they weren't trying to make a good movie but that was proof of how much they understood the game's deep psychological themes.
Having said all that the movie had some decent acting and the always excellent music by akira yamaoka(even if much of it was pulled out of the game).
In conclusion its not a really bad movie, just it isn't what it could have been.