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Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2006)

I went into this movie with much skepticism. First, I thought most of the good reviews on here were from people who had refused to believe this could be bad cause they loved the game so much. Then, I read the reviews when they first came out and noticed that most people seeing it didn't understand what was going on and the film didn't have an ending. Well I went ahead and took a chance, and boy was I surprised. I enjoyed this movie greatly. I played the game a long while back so I don't remember if it followed it, but it doesn't matter, cause it stands alone as a very good horror movie. What I loved the most was how quickly it got into the story and how it just kept getting better as it went along. Most movies that get off to that fiery start don't hold it throughout, but this one did. Then the camera movements and the general feel of it were brilliant. It really gave me an uneasy tension throughout which has been very hard for a horror movie to do for a long while. The sets are amazing, there are no stupid things just popping out all the time while some guy pounds the keys on a piano for a "scare", the horror is putting yourself in the situation and not knowing what to do. As for the ending that everyone keeps saying is incomplete, let's just say that if you truly think about what she just did, you'll know why this happened, and it ends like most horror movies do, with room for a sequel. In closing, it is a good flick, I was pleasantly surprised and I think you should check it out, and maybe you'll enjoy it as much as I did.