What a waste...

Rating: 2/10 (30 April 2006)

Silent Hill may only be for audiences who have played and loved the video game. For all else, it makes no sense.
I tried to give the film the benefit of the doubt when Rose decides to take her young daughter--alone--to a known Ghost Town, without assistance from her concerned husband. Silent Hill continues to defy logic from there.
The film does not explain the presence of the monsters that Rose continues to run away from. Half the time, you get the sense that she's in no real danger at all and these never-ending chase scenes become boring and redundant. At one point, I was hoping one of these creatures would rip her to shreds, just to give us something interesting to watch.
I was expecting Silent Hill to be a clever, horror flick that would make me jump at all the right times--but it never happened . The only truly terrifying thing about Silent Hill is that you have to sit through this snoozer for over 2 hours.