Even for fans, this is a frustrating movie

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2006)

Silent Hill the movie brings the games onto the screen stunningly - in the audio/visual department, that is. The town is crafted brilliantly and the monsters are excellently translated on the screen, even though they get very little screen time and they seem to move on from monster to monster episodically, with no real purpose to their appearances.
The plot of the original game has been butchered, in a bid to appease a wider audience. The result still ends up a terribly confusing mess, and is likely to upset the fans due to its rather flabbergasting changes to the core plot mechanics. All those characters that you know and love from the game are completely different and you feel very little emotion for any of them. This film could have been an excellent human drama, as well as a gut wrenching horror, but in the end it was little more than an ineffective splatter-fest with a simplified, yet at the same time, poorly implemented storyline.
It will confuse the general public, and its unnecessary and sizable changes will do little but infuriate true fans of the game.
Once again it's presentation deserves a thumbs up, and for the first half of the movie, you'll probably be enjoying it immensely. But beware, about an hour in, something awaits around the next corner. A massive kick in the gut. 6 out of 10