Silent Hill

Rating: 3/10 (13 November 2008)

Based on the 1999 video game, just like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, it is another failed adaptation, and I have no idea if the actual video game has any relation to this pretty silly story. Basically Rose Da Silva (Phone Booth's Radha Mitchell) adopted troubled daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), and she is searching for her routes, because of severe nightmares and sleepwalking, so she is heading for the strange, desolate town called "Silent Hill". Rose's husband Christopher Da Silva (Sean Bean) warns her of all the terrible things that have happened in the town, but she pretty much ignores him, and as a consequence has a car crash, goes into may of the buildings experiencing quite random spirit attacks, e.g. melting walls, zombie like things trying to catch her, oh, and Sharon goes missing. It turns out Sharon looks exactly like a little girl named Alessa (also Ferland), and the town people, who eventually appear, are wanting to burn anyone that may be involved with her and trying to destroy the community, well, it's mainly Christabella (Star Trek: First Contact's Alice Krige) that wants that. Also starring Laurie Holden as Cybil Bennett, Deborah Kara Unger as Dahlia Gillespie, Kim Coates as Officer Thomas Gucci and Tanya Allen as Anna. Not all of the random moments scared me, in fact, until the cop showed up joining the main woman, I wasn't sure if it was in her mind or what, I would really need to see the game, but I'm sure even when I do, it's not going to change my opinion, that this film is pointless. Adequate!