The Best Game-to-Movie Ever Made!

Rating: 9/10 (21 April 2006)

I am a major movie critic. I love the Silent Hill games very much, especially the soundtrack. When I heard there was a Silent Hill movie I had nothing but doubt and dread in the back of my mind remembering the curse of game-to-movie adaptations. Every single one I have ever seen has not only done injustices to their games, but were just plain HORRIBLE movies. Except Advent Children was pretty good.
This movie not only does the game justice, the attention to detail is astounding. It is a near perfect representation of the games. It is loosely a combination of all the games. The movie is R, and for a reason. There is only one brief nude scene, and a few cuss words, but the movie is Incredibly violent, as it should be.
I am most happy to hear that the soundtrack from the game has been directly applied into the movie. There are only 2 songs that are not by Akira Yamaoka.
There were only two things I did not like about this movie. I found the girl slightly annoying at the beginning of the movie, but maybe thats because I hate children. I also wish they showed a few more monsters from the game.
If you are not a moron, and are looking for an intellectually stimulating unique horror movie then you should enjoy this. You also don't necessarily have to have played the games in order to understand the movie. As long as you have some sort of attention span and are in the mood to see a movie you should be able to follow the story. I went with a friend who had never played the games, and he actually understood the movie just as well, if not better than I did.