I rented this for $1, I got my money's worth!

Rating: 2/10 (2 October 2006)

Once you get to Silent Hill the typical thing happens. The child disappears. It was your typical running "whatever" and the person that should be scared out of their mind running after the "whatever" yelling. You might was well wrap yourself in Christmas lights and drag a portable generator along! Can't writers find another way to have the hero investigate the surroundings to move story along? OK that was only part of the problem. What the HELL was the story? A girl gets burned, dies, then the grim reaper visits and grants her a wish? The wish is to punish the "DEAD" people that killed her? So why did the nurse get hurt? If she was in the dream didn't she have to be dead too? Still she looked good after 30 years.
And the ending. The heroin and the child make it back home. But they aren't really there?!?!? They're dead! I hope the grim reaper has a several black marks on her/his/it's next performance review.
First it grants a wish, which is a mistake because it goes on for 30 years. Then it sucks in these innocent people to help correct the mistake, which kills them. Then the grim reaper lets them leave to roam around! What the hell!?!?!
The visuals were as good as your standard high end video game. I think it was good that there was a push for disturbing images over gore. This is another example of a movie that was done very well on the computer "visuals", and very poorly in the story.
I guess it is too much to expect both story and really neat visuals.