Would have been better if half the monster weren't so fake looking.

Rating: 1/10 (29 April 2006)

This is one of those movie that you go to with low expectations and get pleasantly surprised. On the other hand if you go expecting a great movie, you will be let down. The movie starts off fine. Rose has to take her daughter to Silent Hill to find out the mystery behind her daughters dreams. Once in Silent Hill she finds that her daughter has disappeared and she is left to chase after her daughter. This is when the movie takes a turn. She chases her daughter into an underground area while there a strange alarm sounds(heh you know what this means), and the fun loving creatures come out to play. Well as soon as you see them and they started screaming, I along with almost all the theater start laughing. It became apparent that this movie wasn't going to be horrifying at all as a matter of fact it was a little funny at times. It wasn't hard to follow at all, but some of the monsters ruined it for me. CGI just hasn't progressed enough to meld perfectly with live action to make something horrifying. The story was fine, but some of the monster were just underwhelming and uninteresting. Pyramid-head wasn't bad, but he wasn't there enough and didn't play a big enough role to make it better. It felt as though he was there for cameo purposes only. Maybe if the entire movie was in CGI then everything would have fit together better.
The Verdict: While it does have a decent plot the movie is underwhelmed by boring monsters and uninteresting scare tactics. It would have been better had it been completely CGI, at least then the CGI monsters wouldn't have looked so "out of place". I know everyone doesn't have the time or funding to make a King Kong realistic CGI masterpiece, but this movie would only scare youngsters who couldn't get in anyway. Nice try, but not worth the price of a ticket. Watch it when it comes on TV. Rating 5/10.