Probably better if you've played the game first

Rating: 3/10 (14 May 2006)

STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits
Adapted from a video game (which I've never played) Silent Hill hits us on the big screen full-on with it's movie version of itself.
Rose (Radha Mitchell) is a lady who's daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) has been suffering nightmares about a town called Silent Hill. Determined to find out what's causing these, she travels out to the town itself with the hope of confronting her fear and stopping it. However, after a freak traffic accident, she wakes up in the snow covered town with no memory of what happened before- and her daughter is missing! In the distance, she sees a semblance of her little girl running away from her. But, after chasing it, she finds this is just the beginning of a nightmare journey into a terrifying hell-hole to get her little girl back.
This is just Resident Evil re-lived, for the most part, complete with minimal characterization, a naff narrative and a similarly apathetic storyline all round really, which makes no real sense through-out and is only barely satisfactorily resolved at the end. However, you can enjoy a few scenes with a nice soundtrack and visual flair, some enjoyable, nice (if obviously computer generated) special effects and Sean Bean in a co-starring role doing an impressive American accent (which only occasionally lapses back into his native Yorkshire.) Overall, though, this is one idea probably best suited to the games console. **