Excellent Adaption!

Rating: 9/10 (21 April 2006)

Omg! This movie is like fantastic! I was smiling from beginning to end. I'm a fan of the Silent Hill series and a fan of the Resident Evil series but the RE Movie was so bad, just thinking about it is making me want to vomit. I missed the first 15 min of the movie which I heard was the most boring bit anyway but when they got to silent hill, it was definitely worth it. I think cooldude was exaggerating a bit about bringing a pillow if you haven't played the game. If you think about it, even if you never played the game, you would still understand it because it's not complicated like the game and the plot does sideline enough away to stand out on it's own. And the effects were good too. I don't know what "SFX" was saying when they gave the movie 2/5 and said the sfx was rubbish and all this, but then again, I know the majority of American minds is incapable of enjoying anything that doesn't go "Boom", "Bang" and "Kablooey" etc. I mean throw few fireworks in the movie and the majority of Americans will be shouting for an Oscar for the movie. Anyway, the acting wasn't bad either. Everyone was very good except the actor that played Rose. There were times when the bad acting was so plain, especially near the beginning. It felt she was straining it. Also during the movie, some of her actions were a bit confusing to say the least.
==============SPOILER============== Like the part when she saw that dead guy in the toilet and pulled that thing out of his mouth. Firstly, I didn't even know he had something in his mouth and secondly, any sane person would try to get as far away from that dead guy rather than put his/her hand down it's mouth!! ===========END SPOILER=============
But thats just the script and not her actually acting ability. Still, if you watch it, you'll see her acting is desperate at times. Almost like this is her big chance for proper Hollywood stardom so she's throwing everything she has in the movie and overdoing it. Yeah i agree with cooldude in 2 things. The ending was lame with the cliché child explaining everything but you have to remember that this IS a movie and movies does have a time limit. Thats why I thought if they had made it into a 3 hour movie, it would have potentially better but I'm still surprised it was 2 hours. I think any shorter and the movie would have been bad. I also agree about the monster fighting bit. I think everyone would have been happy to see Rose go nuts and clobber a monster to death with a pipe! That would have been funny and cool. Instead, all we see is her running and running and running some more... I think Mr Akira was trying to sell his soundtrack or something because the first thing I noticed when when the movie was the original game soundtrack being used, like, every min! You hear 5 second clips literally all the way through the movie! Not good, even though I love the music. It doesn't work in a movie and especially when you overdo it like that. At the end it felt like a tour of silent hill, and all the scenes in the movie were cut and paste from the video game, although slightly changed. Still it's definitely a movie you have to go see.