Great ideas, bad script

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2006)

I don't know what that other guy was talking about. The film was bad. Bad acting (well maybe not all the time), useless characters (the red-head), and some of the worst dialog i've ever had to sit through (um, the red-head). In all fairness it's starts off great. Close enough to the game but different enough to be interesting. The creatures and the art direction (the game had some great ideas that transitioned well into film.) the pacing was great and things were going well. That is, until they tried to explain what was going on. One reason that George Romero's zombie trilogy worked is because they never tell you why dead people are returning to life to eat people. They never should have tried to explain this movie. Should have been a Mother and Daughter drive through Silent Hill and all hell breaks loose. But the more they got away from the plot of the game the worse the movie got. And the ending was just ridiculous. I hate spoilers so I wont say anything other than this: Gore is gore. It's gross and scary. But there is such a thing as stupidity. You can cross the line and people will just start laughing. Except when they burned people alive, that made me want to puke. How do you get away with burning a little girl alive while shes screaming? You release you're movie after HOSTEL, that's how. If you love gore, genius creature design, and one of the coolest interpretations of hell ever put on screen, but also don't mind sitting through endless explanations of why is this happening (most of which is retarded) then you'll probably like this movie. I just hope they can make a decent sequel. I want to see the darkness make a return.