Game adaptation=bad film

Rating: 5/10 (22 April 2006)

after eagerly waiting for the movie to come out, i find it to be disappointing. I have played all four games and have the lack of sleep and wet bed sheets to prove it, and after watching the movie i realize this: you cannot compress hours of information that you would discover in a game into a two hour film. It stayed true to the game as far as how the pacing was and that was good... however you are left with the feeling of just how it could have been done better, how the writer/editor/director could have edited out some stuff to give it a better ending. An okay example of a game-adaptation gone okay is Resident Evil. Resident evil did a pretty decent job with the story (after realizing that two more adaptations are expected to be released within the next two years for this quadrilogy) as well as making up some characters and such; as far as Silent Hill goes...the creepy factor of it all just dies once they add in an entire crowd of townspeople to go along with Rose on her journey. What makes silent hill so creepy, as far as the games go, is that you are all alone, not having a whole plague of people behind you or against you. Hearing the uncomfortable ambiance of a dead town as well as what might be behind you or around the next corner or door. Some sequences in this film were great i will give it that; however as mentioned before, a game adaptation cannot be compressed without having it crash and burn.