A major disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (30 April 2006)

I am a huge fan of the silent hill franchise of games, and I was so excited about the movie, especially since the look and the sound in the trailers seemed so true to what made the games so great. Because of that, I expected greatness, and a feeling that matched the vibe the games so skillfully send across. I did not find it. What I found was a deficit of psychological scares, a multitude of gore, merely for gore's sake, and a film untrue to the spirit of the game. I know some people were genuinely frightened by this film, and I guess I can understand that, sort of. I think, however, that many fans of the game will be sorely disappointed by the film. The attempts to throw in scares that would be familiar to gamers (i.e., Pyramid Head) seemed to be just that: thrown in. There were holes in the plot big enough to put my hand through, the end was unsatisfactory, and the gore was just pointless. In my opinion, despite the fantastic look of this movie, the feeling was just all wrong. Sigh. What a letdown