It's pitch black on silent hill

Rating: 9/10 (23 August 2006)

Silent Hill had just enough transitions to keep it interesting. I stopped playing video games shortly after Atari Asteroids came out, so I only had other films for comparison. Radha Mitchell (Rose) seemed to be in the dark most of her last few movies, going from holding a bottle of glowing slugs up for light in Pitch Black to hold a lighter up in Silent Hill. Mitchell did a great job in a film that must have taken a lot of effort. She looks good, even covered in blood and screaming. Mitchell is in the same league as Bruce Willis in that they both suffer well on screen. Medium fast pace along with a strong cast, some wonderful camera work, a few twists, and good special effects helped this film through a pretty stale plot. I wouldn't pay to see it again in the theater, but I would by the DVD.