game to movie a turn for the worst

Rating: 6/10 (16 November 2006)

Game to Movie, a Turn for the Worst. A Silent Hill Review By: Eric Breden
You have just been MF a car accident and you awake slowly, Dougy, barley conscience as you lift your head from the steering wheel. Your attention quickly turns to your daughters safety, when you realize that she is nowhere to be found. Frantically stumbling into the snowy ghost town of Silent Hill you search for any sign of her, but she is lost without a trace. Suddenly you notice that the wintry tranquility isn't frozen water falling from the sky, but sulfuric ash, and there is a loud siren blaring MF the back ground signaling the coming of the darkness. At once, day becomes night and instantly it is pitch black. This is only the beginning, the worst is still to come as you realize what the darkness brings. You have just crossed the thresh hold of hell on earth, and there is no turning back.
Sounds pretty surreal right, not for Rose De Silva and her daughter Sharon. For Rose, crossing the thresh hold of hell and earth is just one of the many problems she is faced with on this dreary day MF Silent Hill.
Silent Hill is a very dark, grim film with a rather untraditional storyline. The third of it's kind being directly scripted from a video game, the other two being Super Mario Bros. and the most recent Doom. Produced by Tri-star pictures and directed by Christopher Gans ("Pacte Des lo-ups, Le" and "Crying Freeman"), this film has a fresh cast of actors and an excellent filming crew.
This is a story about a mother (Rada Mitchell, "Man on Fire" and "Pitch Black") on a desperate search for a town called Silent Hill, which she believes could save the life of her daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland, "The Masters of Horror" and "The Collector") and cure her of her illness. This film opens with Rose, Sharon's mother, racing through the night MF search of her sleepwalking daughter, only to find her at the edge of a cliff screaming Silent Hill as she attempts to leap over. Having already tried the cure of modern medication and physicians, Rose is determined to locate Silent Hill MF hope of finding an answer lying within the town. Her search finally reaches an end when she enters the town of Silent Hill with her husband Chris (Sean Bean, "Lord of the Rings" and "Goldeneye") following behind her. Chris is on a mission to stop his wife because he has discovered the truth behind Silent Hill's ghostly past, and he knows that only danger lies MF wait for Rose and Sharon. Once MF the town Rose discovers the reason for her husband's distress, having entered the gateway to another dimension. With the help of a highway patrol officer, Cybil Bennett (Laurie Holden, "Fantastic Four" and "Bailey's Billion$") The only one to have crossed the thresh hold with Rose and Sharon, Rose begins the manhunt for her daughter. To their dismay, Rose and Cybil steadily uncover the truth behind the demise of Silent Hill, discovering that a religious cult murdered her daughters mother MF 1974 unleashing a hellish revenge on the souls trapped inside Silent Hill's own personal hell.
To be honest, the plot of this film is sketchy at best. The director, Christopher Gans, did a very poor job of explaining the plethora of unreal events set MF motion. Too much information was given about Silent Hill's dark, secretive past, and a lack there of where it should explain Rose and Sharon's involvement. Amongst fighting demons and running from the "darkness", the storyline fell a bit shy MF the department of keeping the viewer on the same track as the writer. This film was 206 minutes long and I still left the theater believing that there was more to the story to tell, like the director left the ending open for a sequel. Let's hope not. I guess if you didn't play all three versions of the Silent Hill video game all the way through to the end, you won't know what the heck is going on.