Awesome Movie (contains spoilers!)

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2006)

Last night was the opening night of the Silent Hill movie. I have to admit, I've been waiting as patiently as possible to see this! Which of course isn't saying much at all! For those of you who are Silent Hill fans, you got to see this movie! The movie started off with little Sharon (changed from Cheryl from SH1), having nightmares (dreams?) about her mother and Silent Hill. Her adopted parents, Rose and Chris DaSilva, go after her through a tunnel and past a highway to this awesome waterfall area where Sharon is just standing and calling out for her mother. Rose immediately goes to the rescue just before Sharon falls forward off the cliff, and holds the squirming child who is screaming at this point for her mother and Silent Hill.
The movie then picks up with Rose taking Sharon to Silent Hill without consulting her husband first. On the way, Rose is pulled over by a bad ass bitch cop (Cybil SH1), and speeds on to Silent Hill. Speeding along the way Rose almost runs into this ghost-like figure of a girl crossing the road and everything goes white.
Rose wakes up a bit later to discover that Sharon is missing and she runs ahead to Silent Hill when her car doesn't start. There she sees the girl figure thinking that its Sharon. She follows her into this alleyway where there is a loud alarm and she first finds herself in a hellish alleyway where blood is no stranger. The worlds have shifted, and we find ourself witnessing the first view of the demon Silent Hill. (This is a great scene here) Rose continues to search for the girl and run behind her tracks, but stops when a human-like figure on a fence stands right before her. The eyes are moving and it's breathing, then out of nowhere come these gray figures that chase her while she runs. Then she makes it into a building with them right at her feet. As they are clawing away at her, she curls up and they disappear. The world seems to have turned back to normal.
She looks around the town coming to a street that has been taken away by something, and gets her first encounter with Dahlia Gillespie. Dahlia sees the picture of Rose's Sharon and tries to take away her locket saying that that is HER daughter! Rose freaks and throws the woman off her.
After a bit more searching she meets up again with the cop, Cybil, who handcuffs her and they walk away from Silent Hill only to discover that they cannot leave the way they came. Then they meet more of the gray figures who spray acid on Cybil and Rose runs away, handcuffs and all.
Rose then proceeds down the streets of Silent Hill, only stopping for a few moments to check each bus route map to get to Midwich Elementary School. At the school, she goes inside to the main office area. Obviously at this point, you know that there is some weird thing going on and it mainly has to do with religion, cause there are a LOT of pictures in the school (and the rest of the movie) dealing with cult religion and God.
Now, I won't go spoiling the rest of the movie, I'm just gonna say that there are a Lot of things having to do with Silent Hill 1 on the regular Playstation. If you have played the game, then at this point you are probably wondering why they used the mother (who is supposed to be dead), instead of Harry Mason. I honestly don't understand it, but there was one quote used in the movie that made me feel a little better about it.....
Cybil: "A mother is God in the eyes of a child." OK, on to my great commentary part. The movie was Great and I played all four games before I actually saw the movie. There are some great enemies like Claudia, Pyramid-head, the nurses (which made everyone jump), etc... Also, while I was watching the movie, I had to bite the urge to jump up and scream "quick, use the first-aid kit!" or "You have to get the memo." I only have a few questions that still bother me. One thing that bothered me was the fact that she was in handcuffs during almost the whole school scene. I don't know why, it just bothered me. Then, my biggest question (for those who've seen the movie) is why was Rose and Sharon still in limbo at the end of the movie? Other than that, I hope I didn't spoil the movie too much, you have GOT TO SEE IT!