The best Video-Game to Movie Adaptation!

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2006)

I went opening night expecting to see a grotesque movie, with dismembered body parts laying everywhere, since this is what the majority of the game is, with the exception that there is monsters that try to disturb you out of your mind. When i got to the movie i was so amped for the movie to begin. When it started it was exactly like the first game... car crash the the main character emerges in the shrewed city covered in fog, Silent Hill. When the siren went off it was definitely the real beginning. The special effects were probably the best effects in any other video-game to movie adaptation. And it wasn't all CGI effects, as many were saying. It was real actors plastered in makeup. The make-up I might add was amazing, the Pryamid Head was by far one of the most sinister in the movie. The blood was almost everywhere, especially in when the "Darkness" came, just like the game. The storyline had a few holes but none that made the movie hard to follow. And the ending was completely and utterly fascinating. This movie wasn't about the monsters jumping out at you, no instead you basically seen them or heard them sliding around somewhere outside the doors. Overall this movie was all about the disturbing images, not about the blood and guts as I wanted to see, but overall was very pleasing to see Silent Hill in the big screen. Even the distorting camera angles and lighting were in the movie.. Even when the actors, well actresses, were holding just a flashlight or lighter it still gave the effect that they were alone when they were not. The acting was great, even though most of the actresses only had a few lines like.. "OMG" "WTF" and the famous.. "Don't worry... momma coming!" and "To get you daughter back, you most face the Darkness of hell" or something like that. If you liked the games, you will enjoy this movie more then the average movie goer, since u know what to expect. This movie makes you think and the ending is a cliff hanger... (I wonder what they will do for the second?)