film based on the silent hill video game series

Rating: 1/10 (31 May 2006)

-rubbish- is only word to qualify this film. aficionados will want to see it for the images taken from the amazing game, but that's all there is to it. the ending might, MIGHT, give us a little chill, but that's it basically. too many characters, battling too many demons, for very good, very logical reasons. there is no unstoppable descent into a spiral of insanity, no desire to prod the festering wound to find out what lies beneath, no desperate self-delusion.and what about the worst monsters, those within? why does the worst threat ALWAYS have to come from something strange, foreign different and/or freaky? silent hill was supposed to be, i thought, a mirror of reality, shame that principle was not applied here...what a pity, never mind,try again, as grandfather used to say.