just bad

Rating: 3/10 (14 May 2006)

it was like they wanted to take silent hill 1 the video game and totally re trash the story and make it suck. if they just wanted to make silent hill for ps1 a movie they should have done just that and it would have been phenomenal. alas they thought they could throw people off by making the main character a girl and changing the whole story with Cheryl (who is now Charon and that just annoyed me the whole movie) and Alyssa. i wont be a spoiler but for those who really played the games they will know what i mean.
and unlike the silent hill way of lagging the clues out the movie would explain NOTHING for an hour than give too much information at once while sending the heroine (which i should have injected into my veins before seeing this) on inane clue hunts. yes the special effects, sound, and camera work were great. okay there was some gore, bu the game are more for the gore you don't see like bodies under sheets and wrapped in cages than they are out right blood and guts.
yes you could say "how can you fit a whole video game in 2 hours?". well you can beat any of the silent hills in a few hours with running around. take out the clue hunts and just make a straight story and you could do it.
alas they should have either made the original game into a movie which would have rocked or made a completely original story threaded to the town like the game sequel.
i don't recommend this to anyone. rent it or just con a stupid friend into renting it on your Way to their house.